Patents Issued in October 15, 2019
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Patent number: 10441215Abstract: One embodiment includes an image acquisition circuit that accesses a pre-treatment and a post-treatment image of a region of tissue demonstrating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), a segmentation and registration circuit that annotates the tumor represented in the images, and that registers the pre-treatment image with the post-treatment image; a feature extraction circuit that selects a set of pre-treatment and a set of post-treatment quantitative vessel tortuosity (QVT) features from the registered image; a delta-QVT circuit that generates a set of delta-QVT features by computing a difference between the set of post-treatment QVT features and the set of pre-treatment QVT features; and a classification circuit that generates a probability that the region of tissue will respond to immunotherapy based on the difference, and that classifies the region of tissue as a responder or non-responder. Embodiments may generate an immunotherapy treatment plan based on the classification.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Case Western Reserve UniversityInventors: Anant Madabhushi, Yuanqi Xie, Vamsidhar Velcheti
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Patent number: 10441216Abstract: Methods to identify and risk stratify disease states, cardiac structural defects, functional cardiac deficiencies induced by teratogens and other toxic agents, pathological substrates, conduction delays and defects, and ejection fraction using single channel biological data obtained from the subject. A modified Matching Pursuit (MP) algorithm may be used to find a noiseless model of the data that is sparse and does not assume periodicity of the signal. After the model is derived, various metrics and subspaces are extracted to characterize the cardiac system. In another method, space-time domain is divided into a number of regions (which is largely determined by the signal length), the density of the signal is computed in each region and input to a learning algorithm to associate them to the desired cardiac dysfunction indicator target.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: ANALYTICS FOR LIFE INC.Inventors: Timothy Burton, Shyamlal Ramchandani, Matthew Howe-Patterson, Mohsen Yazdi, Sunny Gupta
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Patent number: 10441217Abstract: An eyewear set is provided, including: an eyewear; and a signal processing unit that is attachable to and detachable from a bridge of the eyewear, where the signal processing unit includes: an enclosure; a first electrode and a second electrode that are provided outside the enclosure and detect a biomedical signal of a wearer who is wearing the eyewear; a signal processing portion that is arranged inside the enclosure and processes the biomedical signal; a transmitting portion that is arranged inside the enclosure and transmits a processing result according to the signal processing portion to an external device; a power supply portion that is arranged inside the enclosure and supplies electrical power to the signal processing portion and the transmitting portion; and a mounting portion that attachably and detachably mounts the enclosure on the bridge.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: JINS HOLDINGS Inc.Inventor: Taiki Komoda
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Patent number: 10441218Abstract: The invention relates to the field of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging. It concerns an oscillation applicator for MR rheology. It is an object of the invention to provide an oscillation applicator without restrictions regarding the usability for certain body regions. According to the invention, the oscillation applicator comprises at least one transducer which generates a reciprocating motion at a given frequency and a belt (19) mechanically coupled to the transducer, which belt (19) is designed to be wrapped around a patient's body (10). Moreover, the invention relates to a MR device (1) and to a method of MR imaging.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Peter Vernickel, Christoph Leussler, Daniel Wirtz, Peter Mazurkewitz
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Patent number: 10441219Abstract: A device (10, 10?, 10?) includes a light source (12) and a light detector (14) spaced from, and in communication with, the light source (12). An electronic processor (18) is programmed to compute pulse oximetry data from output of the light detector (14). A clamping member (26) is included, on or in which the light source (12) and the light detector (14) are disposed. The clamping member (26) is configured for attachment to a human body part with the body part disposed between the light source (12) and the light detector (14) such that light from the light source (12) passes through the body part to reach the light detector (14). The clamping member (26) is configured to attach to the body part by transitioning from a first stable state to a second stable state via a compression force applied to the clamping member (26).Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Wouter Herman Peeters, Egbertus Reinier Jacobs, Rick Bezemer, Jens Muehlsteff
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Patent number: 10441220Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wearable display device. According to an exemplary embodiment, the wearable display device includes: a display unit configured to display an image; a wearing means configured to fix the display unit on a body part; a plurality of sensors positioned on one surface of the wearing means and configured to contact a measuring target to measure a bio-signal from the measuring target; and a wearing means adjustment section included in the display unit and configured to adjust a length of the wearing means contacting the measuring target of the wearing means by using the bio-signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.Inventor: Min Su An
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Patent number: 10441221Abstract: A medical device, such as a prosthesis, may include a graft material and a pocket disposed along at least one of luminal and abluminal surfaces of the graft material. The pocket may include a pocket opening leading into an enclosed cavity. The enclosed cavity may be sized to receive at least a portion of a microsystem, and the pocket may be accessible in vivo for removal of the microsystem from the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: COOK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES LLCInventor: Ralf Spindler
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Patent number: 10441222Abstract: An endoscopy sigmoid support apparatus that includes a primary wrap sized for placement around a subject's lower abdomen. A closing mechanism is provided at the end of the primary wrap to secure the primary wrap around the abdomen of the subject by attaching a first end of the primary wrap to a second portion of the primary wrap. A strap extends from the primary wrap and is configured to extend across at least a portion of the primary wrap and to fasten to a third portion of the primary wrap to adjust the amount of pressure applied by the endoscopy sigmoid support apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Colowrap, LLCInventor: James Hathorn
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Patent number: 10441223Abstract: A personal wearable EEG monitor comprising an implantable electrode part with at least two electrodes (2,3) for measuring an EEG signal of a person. The electrode part comprises an electronic circuit arranged in a housing (1) with each electrode arranged external to the housing. The electrode part comprises a testing circuit for testing functionality of the electrode part. The testing circuit comprises a capacitor (9) coupled in serial connection to at least one of the electrodes, and a test signal generator for providing a test signal. The EEG monitor is adapted for analyzing the signal resulting from the signal generator for identification of faults in the electrode part. The invention further provides a method for detecting a leak current in an implanted EEG monitor part.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: T&W Engineering A/SInventors: Soren Kilsgaard, Morten Holm Jensen
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Patent number: 10441224Abstract: A system includes a sensor configured to sense physiological information from a subject, and a signal processor configured to process signals from the sensor into a serial data stream of physiological information and sensor performance information. An electronic device having a display is configured to receive the serial data stream and display the physiological information simultaneously with the sensor performance information via the display.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Valencell, Inc.Inventors: Steven Francis LeBoeuf, William M. Richey, Michael Edward Aumer
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Patent number: 10441225Abstract: Embodiments include operations, apparatus, methods and other embodiments that access a baseline CT image of a region of tissue (ROT) demonstrating non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), segment a tumoral region represented in the baseline CT image; define a peritumoral region by dilating the tumoral boundary; extract a set of tumoral radiomic features from the tumoral region, a set of peritumoral radiomic features from the peritumoral region, and a set of clinico-pathologic features from the baseline CT image; provide the set of tumoral radiomic features, peritumoral radiomic features, and clinico-pathologic features to a machine learning classifier; receive, from the machine learning classifier, a time-to-recurrence post trimodality therapy (TMT) prediction, based on the set of tumoral radiomic features, peritumoral radiomic features, and clinico-pathologic features; generate a classification of the ROT as an MPR responder or MPR non-responder based, at least in part, on the time-to-recurrence post-TMT predictiType: GrantFiled: December 31, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Case Western Reserve UniversityInventors: Anant Madabhushi, Mohammadhadi Khorrami, Vamsidhar Velcheti
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Patent number: 10441226Abstract: A radiation system includes a first ring, a radiation source capable of providing radiation suitable for treating a patient, the radiation source secured to the first ring, a second ring located behind the first ring, and an imager secured to the second ring. A radiation system includes a first device having a radiation source capable of generating a radiation beam suitable for treating a patient, and a second device having imaging capability, wherein the first device is oriented at an angle that is less than 180° relative to the second device. A radiation system includes a structure having a first opening, a radiation source rotatably coupled to the structure, an imaging device rotatable relative to the structure, and a processor for controlling a rotation of the radiation source and a rotation of the imaging device, wherein the radiation source is rotatable relative to the imaging device.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Varian Medical Systems, Inc.Inventors: Timothy E. Guertin, Richard H. Stark, Raymond D. McIntyre, Steven W. Prince, Stanley Mansfield, George A. Zdasiuk
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Patent number: 10441227Abstract: A cephalostat for acquiring teleradiographic images through an extraoral radiographic apparatus includes a pair of earpieces at the ends of two shafts and a small bar for resting again the nasion, these components being manually adjustable to adjust them to the skull of the patient under examination, wherein the cephalostat is free from metallic elements in the parts on which X-rays impinge, with the exception of radio-opaque markers, and is interchangeable with a craniostat fixed in the same apparatus seat.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Inventors: Martino Fasoli, Giacomo Zoccatelli
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Patent number: 10441228Abstract: An imaging breast examination apparatus for medical examination of a breast includes an insertable compression plate for compressing the breast. An electric motor which is disposed outside the compression plate in the breast examination apparatus serves to generate a rotation movement. A mechanical interface transmits the rotation movement of the electric motor to the compression plate.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Marcus Radicke
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Patent number: 10441229Abstract: According to one embodiment, an X-ray CT apparatus includes a gantry, a table on which an object is placed, a bed, and processing circuitry. The gantry is equipped with an X-ray source and an X-ray detector. The bed includes a moving mechanism which is configured to move the table in a horizontal direction and in a vertical direction. The processing circuitry performs a main scan and a prescan. The prescan is performed prior to the main scan. The processing circuitry calculates displacement of the table in the vertical direction and also calculates an angle of the table from the horizontal direction using data acquired in the prescan, and controls a position of the table and an angle of the gantry based on the displacement of the table and the angle of the table.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Hiroki Osaki, Takahito Watanabe, Shigeru Usuda
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Patent number: 10441230Abstract: The invention relates to a projection data acquisition apparatus (31) for acquiring projection data. The projection data acquisition apparatus comprises a radiation device (32) for generating a pulsed radiation beam (4) for traversing an object and a detection device (6) for generating projection data being indicative of the pulsed radiation beam (4) at different acquisition positions, wherein the radiation device (32) is adapted to generate the pulsed radiation beam (4) such that at different acquisition positions the pulsed radiation beam (4) has different shapes, i.e. is differently blocked and/or attenuated. Thus, not the complete radiation providable by the radiation device is used at each acquisition position, but at least at some acquisition positions only a smaller pulsed radiation beam is used. This can lead to less scattered radiation and hence to improved projection data and an improved computed tomography image, which may be reconstructed based on the acquired projection data.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Roland Proksa, Michael Grass
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Patent number: 10441231Abstract: A system of shields designed to provide substantially greater protection, head to toe, against radiation exposure to health care workers in a hospital room during procedures which require real-time imaging. The shields are placed around the patient and the x-ray table and provide protection even when the x-ray tube is moved to various angles around the patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Egg Medical, Inc.Inventors: Robert F. Wilson, Uma S. Valeti, John P. Gainor
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Patent number: 10441232Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus is configured so that an height-position composition element 15 sends a directive to an angle driving element 44 in an imaging element 4, and the height-position compensation element 15 corrects the height-position of the X-ray tube 42 by driving of the up-and-down driving element 44 in conjunction with the imaging region that the imaging region data recognition element 14 of the console element 1, the angle of the X-ray tube 42 is corrected so that the X-ray irradiation angle of the X-ray from the X-ray tube 42 faces downward; and when the height-position compensation element 15 corrects the height-position of the X-ray tube 42 downward, the angle of the X-ray tube 42 is corrected so that the X-ray irradiation angle of the X-ray from the X-ray tube 42 faces upward.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: SHIMADZU CORPORATIONInventors: Ken Shirota, Tomoharu Okuno
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Patent number: 10441233Abstract: An imaging control apparatus for an X-ray imaging apparatus which performs X-ray imaging in accordance with a plurality of pieces of imaging information displayed in an information display area of a display unit includes a display control unit which controls the display position of prepared imaging information in the completed state of preparation for X-ray imaging and the display position of unprepared imaging information in the uncompleted state of preparation for X-ray imaging in accordance with a reference position set in the information display area.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventor: Noboru Inoue
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Patent number: 10441234Abstract: An X-ray phase-contrast imaging device capable of easily performing imaging of an object using X-rays of plural energies is provided. The disclosed exemplary configuration includes an X-ray source of a dual energy output type, and an FPD having a high energy X-ray detection surface and a low energy X-ray detection surface so that two types of imaging, imaging by high energy X-ray and imaging by low energy X-ray, can be performed. By imaging so as to scan the object while changing the relative position of the imaging system and the object, two types of imaging can be completed at once.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Shimadzu CorporationInventors: Koichi Tanabe, Shingo Furui, Hiroyuki Kishihara, Kenji Kimura, Taro Shirai, Takahiro Doki, Satoshi Sano, Akira Horiba
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Patent number: 10441235Abstract: Methods and systems for manually assisted definition of vascular features are described. In some embodiments, vascular centerlines identified by image analysis are divided into segments. Optionally, one or more candidate paths extending to the vascular root position along chains of segments are generated for each of a plurality of vascular endpoint. Selection of paths which correspond to anatomical paths of blood flow is optionally based on manual review. Optionally, paths are manually defined, for example, based on selection of a plurality of waypoints. Optionally, paths are edited by use of an active contour method that allows relative rough indication of corrections to be transformed into path changes that conform closely to the geometry of nearby vasculature.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: CathWorks Ltd.Inventors: Guy Lavi, Ofek Shilon, Sarit Semo, Omri Harish, Asaf Shimshovitz
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Patent number: 10441236Abstract: A coordinate system registration module, including radiopaque elements arranged in a fixed predetermined pattern and configured, in response to the radiopaque elements generating a fluoroscopic image, to define a position of the module in a fluoroscopic coordinate system of reference. The module further includes one or more connections configured to fixedly connect the module to a magnetic field transmission pad at a predetermined location and orientation with respect to the pad, so as to characterize the position of the registration module in a magnetic coordinate system of reference defined by the magnetic field transmission pad.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2013Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Tamir Demri, Tal Haim Bar-on, Eliahu Zino, Ran Glazer, Gil Zigelman, Dror Berman
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Patent number: 10441237Abstract: A motion correction method includes two steps. The first step includes a global motion correction using the bilinear warping technique and a rough delineation of the lung fields. One of the native images (low energy image, high energy image) is deformed to match the other image. In a second step, local motion corrections are applied to the globally motion corrected image by computing a proximity value in small overlapping tiles. Only tiles with a sufficient high proximity value are taken into account. The maximum shift applied in this second step is limited to a few pixels to avoid strong deformations of the native images.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: AGFA NVInventor: Tom Bertens
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Patent number: 10441238Abstract: A radiation imaging apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a scintillator configured to convert radiation into light, a sensor panel in which a plurality of pixels each comprising a light detector configured to detect the light is arranged, and a processing unit. The processing unit comprises a conversion unit configured to output a detection signal in accordance with a signal generated in the light detector by the incident light and radiation that has transmitted through the scintillator without being converted into light, and a reset control unit configured to determine that the light detector detects the transmitted radiation based on a magnitude of the detection signal and reset the conversion unit if the light detector is determined to detect the transmitted radiation.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Kosuke Terui, Atsushi Iwashita, Katsuro Takenaka, Shinichi Takeda
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Patent number: 10441239Abstract: An X-ray diagnostic apparatus according to this embodiment includes: a memory circuitry configured to store a program; and a processing circuitry configured to read the program from the memory circuitry, and execute the program, wherein the processing circuitry is configured to identify a predetermined three-dimensional region of a patient at a predetermined position based on multiple X-ray images taken in at least two directions, and adjust an X-ray irradiation range based on the identified three-dimensional region and on system position information that includes irradiation position information where the patient is irradiated.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Shingo Abe
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Patent number: 10441240Abstract: A method of monitoring a radiation amount received from an X-ray source in an X-ray imaging system for taking an X-ray image of an object includes the steps of obtaining one or more depth images from one or more depth cameras; the one or more depth cameras covering at least an area covered by an X-ray bundle of an X-ray source of the X-ray imaging system; positioning the object against or on a surface including radiation measurement chambers and identifying select radiation measurement chambers underneath the object from the one or more depth images and/or from a single depth image derived from the one or more depth images; and activating the select radiation measurement chambers.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: AGFA NVInventor: Gert Merckx
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Patent number: 10441241Abstract: The present application relates to a remote exposure control device, a digital radiography system and an exposing method for the system. The remote exposure control device comprises: a power source module, a sensing module electrically connected to the power source module, a processing module electrically connected to the power source module, and a communication module, wherein: the sensing module is electrically connected to the communication module and the processing module respectively; the communication module is configured to communicate with a flat panel detector (FPD) paired with a digital radiography system; and the processing module is configured to, after receiving a trigger signal sent by the sensing module, control the communication module to send an awakening instruction or a power-on instruction to the FPD, so that the FPD is awakened from a sleeping state or a power-off state to a working state.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: CareRay Digital Medical Technology Co., Ltd.Inventors: Jianqiang Liu, Daming Ren, Xianguo Huang, Peng Gao
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Patent number: 10441242Abstract: An X-ray apparatus includes an X-ray source configured to radiate X-rays, a collimator configured to adjust a radiation field of the X-rays and rotate on an optical axis direction of the X-rays, a ring-shaped first rotation transfer unit centered on an optical axis of the X-rays in the X-ray source, a second rotation transfer unit interlocked with the ring-shaped first rotation transfer unit and configured to rotate as the collimator rotates, a rotation sensor configured to sense an amount of rotation of the second rotation transfer unit, and a detector comprising a receiving surface on which the X-rays radiated from the collimator are incident.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Dae-soo Kim, Han-ju Nam, Young-jun Lee, Jin-ho Choi
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Patent number: 10441243Abstract: A body sound analysis device includes: acquisition means (210, 220) that acquires information relating to a frequency corresponding to a prescribed feature of a spectrum of a body sound; shifting means (230) that shifts, according to the information relating to the frequency, a plurality of reference spectrums that are references for classifying body sounds, and acquires a frequency shift reference spectrum; and output means (240, 250) that outputs a ratio of a plurality of reference spectrums included in the body sounds on the basis of the body sounds and the frequency shift reference spectrum. According to this body sound analysis device, a plurality of types of sounds included in the body sounds can be favorably analyzed.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventors: Ryushin Kametani, Koichi Ishitoya, Tomohiro Miura, Hideyuki Ohkubo, Tsuyoshi Hasebe
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Patent number: 10441244Abstract: A system and method for allowing any surgeon, including those surgeons who perform a fewer number of a replacement procedure as compared to a more experienced surgeon who performs a greater number of procedures, to provide an improved likelihood of a favorable outcome approaching, if not exceeding, a likelihood of a favorable outcome as performed by a very experienced surgeon with the replacement procedure. Force sensing is included to aid in quantifying installation of an implant, particularly a cup into a pelvic bone.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Inventor: Kambiz Behzadi
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Patent number: 10441245Abstract: There is provided an endoscope apparatus in which a forceps elevator can be operated according to the operator's intention even when a treatment tool has large bending stiffness. The forceps elevator is erectably provided in a distal end part of the insertion part of the endoscope apparatus and guides the treatment tool led out from the distal end part. The forceps elevator has an erecting motion range from a minimum angular position to a maximum angular position. If a state in which the treatment tool is not led out from the distal end part is assumed, the erecting operation lever for operating the movement of the forceps elevator has: a first operation range where the erecting operation lever is operated within the erecting motion range of the forceps elevator; and a second operation range where the erecting operation lever is operated beyond the first operation range.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Yasuhiko Morimoto
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Patent number: 10441246Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for fast volume contrast imaging in C-plane (VCI-C) and Omniview acquisition.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANYInventors: Stefan Denk, Harald Deischinger
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Patent number: 10441247Abstract: A single element ultrasound transducer is fabricated from a laminate plate which produces multiple transducer elements simultaneously. The laminate plate includes the piezo ceramic, matching layer, and backing layer with rear electrode. The laminate plate is diced while mounted on nitto tape to retain the individual elements in position after dicing. The sides of the elements are covered with an insulating coating, which permits the transducer elements to be surface mounted on flex circuit by bonding the rear electrode to a signal conductor of the flex circuit and the matching layer to a return conductor by metallically coating the mounted transducer element and return conductor on the flex circuit.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Dennis Dean Clark, Barry Carl Scheirer
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Patent number: 10441248Abstract: An ultrasonic device includes a substrate and a support member. The substrate has an element array including a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements arranged in an array form. The support member has a surface adhered to the substrate in an area including the element array, and an opposite surface opposite from the surface adhered to the substrate, a distance from the surface adhered to the substrate to the opposite surface being different with respect to two adjacent ones of the ultrasonic transducer elements in the element array.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Seiko Epson CorporationInventors: Tomoaki Nakamura, Yasunori Onishi, Tomohide Onogi
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Patent number: 10441249Abstract: An ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes: an ultrasound probe; a display; an image processor; and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the image processor, perform operations. The operations includes acquiring ultrasound data about an object; generating an ultrasound image, based on the acquired ultrasound data; generating a first marker for a first object of interest (OOI) which is not included in the generated ultrasound image; displaying the generated ultrasound image and a map image representing a viewing point corresponding to the ultrasound image, a viewing direction, a region that a virtual ray reaches, and a position of the first OOI; and marking the first marker to correspond to the position of the first OOI on the ultrasound image and the map image.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Samsung Medison Co., Ltd.Inventor: Han-eol Kim
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Patent number: 10441250Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed that facilitate obtaining two dimensional (2D) ultrasound images, using two or more ultrasound imaging modes or modalities, to generate 2D multi-parametric ultrasound (mpUS) images and/or to generate a three-dimensional (3D) mpUS image. The different ultrasound imaging modes acquire images in a common frame of reference during a single procedure to facilitate their registration. The mpUS images (i.e., 2D or 3D) may be used for enhanced detection of suspicious regions.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: ZMK MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC.Inventors: Rajesh Venkataraman, Saradwata Sarkar, Xu Yang, Michael Ahmadi
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Patent number: 10441251Abstract: A fluid drainage system is provided which is configured to engage with a drainage tube engaged with a drainage site with a patient. The container has an internal cavity with negative pressure to impart suction to the drainage tube and can be engaged to the drainage tube without loss of negative pressure during the process. Secondary containers may be engaged to restore negative pressure to the first container and remove fluid therefrom. Walls of the first container may be shaped to resist deflection due to high internal negative pressure.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: PFM Medical, Inc.Inventor: Marshall Kerr
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Patent number: 10441252Abstract: We disclose a medical toilet that includes a system for interpreting measurements collected by medical devices on or in the medical toilet and for customizing the measurements to each user. The system may use information about the user to selecting which measurements to perform, select or modify parameters that apply to the measurement techniques, and select follow-up measurements that may be performed based on the first set of measurements. These decisions may be made according to the user's physical, demographic, or medical status information that may be entered into a controller connected to the medical toilet. The controller may apply a set of rules to the measurements and thereby determine a value which provides an estimate of the validity of the measurements and which may be used to make adjustments to subsequent measurements.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Hall Labs LLCInventors: David R. Hall, Dan Allen, Min Kang, Ben Swenson, Terrece Pearman
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Patent number: 10441253Abstract: An endoscopic biopsy device for collecting samples. The device includes a tubular body having distal and proximal ends and jaws hinged to the distal end. The jaws operate between OPEN and CLOSED positions to secure a tissue sample. In the CLOSED position, the jaws define a sampling chamber. A collecting chamber for receiving samples is located within the body near the sampling chamber. A collecting member for transfixing secured samples is displaceable between a retracted position in the collecting chamber and a deployed position where the collecting member penetrates into the sampling chamber. The jaws include retaining elements projecting inwardly on a portion of the jaws. The retaining elements engage when the jaws are CLOSED, separating the sampling and collecting chambers from each other. The retaining elements disengage when the jaws are OPEN, providing a passage for the transfer of transfixed samples into and out of the collecting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2014Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: BioScopeX ApSInventors: Tomas Gundberg, Ole Kjeldsen, Henrik Harboe
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Patent number: 10441254Abstract: An apparatus, comprising: a biopsy needle having a distal end and a proximal end, all or a portion of the biopsy needle being movable between a collapsed state and an expanded state; a sheath having a distal end and a proximal end, wherein the biopsy needle in the collapsed state is contained within the sheath, and in the expanded state at least the distal end of the biopsy needle extends from the distal end of the sheath; wherein the biopsy needle is provided with two or more sleeves, which at least partially overlap in the collapsed configuration and which cylindrically expand to provide an increased radius, relative to a radius in the collapsed state, for sampling in the expanded configuration, and wherein a cross section of the distal end of the biopsy needle in the expanded state is a substantially circular cross section.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: SPIRATION, INCInventors: Brandon J. Shuman, David H. Dillard
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Patent number: 10441255Abstract: A multiple-purpose surgical instrument having a reflecting, rendering, and sizing tool to increase visibility and provide three-dimensional depth perception of a surgical site so that realization of a condition of the surgical site and safety are enhanced during an arthroscopic or laparoscopic procedure.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Inventor: Stephan V. Yacoubian
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Patent number: 10441256Abstract: Among other things, there are disclosed apparatuses and methods for medically sealing an opening in a vessel or wall. For example, in medical applications, a delivery tube is provided for insertion through a sheath into a vessel (e.g. a blood vessel). A dome-shaped seal fixed to a filament, an absorbent and/or compressible buffer, and a locking member are provided in the delivery tube. The delivery tube is configured so that it can be inserted into the vessel through a sheath. Tension is maintained on the filament to hold the seal against the tube or sheath. The sheath is pulled out, which pulls out the tube at the same time, leaving the seal over the opening in the vessel wall. The locking member compresses the buffer against the outside of the vessel and with the filament holds the seal in place against the inside of a vessel.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: Cook Medical Technologies LLC, Cook Biotech IncorporatedInventors: Ram H. Paul, Jr., Cleon Stanley, Brian L. Bates, F. Joseph Obermiller, Thomas A. Osborne, Sean D. Chambers
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Patent number: 10441257Abstract: An apparatus and system that includes an elongated body, a vascular closure device that can occlude a hole in a vessel wall coupled to a distal end of the elongated body, a sleeve assembly and a biasing member arranged to elastically deform coupled between the elongated body and the sleeve assembly, wherein the vascular closure device is pliant and is deformable to fit with the sleeve assembly but is too large to fit within the sleeve assembly without deforming it and where application of tension to the elongated body by retracting the sleeve assembly away from the deployed vascular closure device elastically deforms the biasing member and exerts a force on the vascular closure device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Cook Medical Technologies LLCInventors: Cleon Stanley, Ram H. Paul, Jr.
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Patent number: 10441258Abstract: A medical device for treating an LAA is presented. The device includes a cap, a bulb and a joint assembly therebetween. The cap is a three layer mesh structure with a retaining hub securing the layers together. A plurality of proximal wire loops extend from the base layer to a proximal post of the joint assembly. The bulb has a plurality of distal wire loops that extend between a terminal post and a distal post of the joint assembly. The joint assembly comprises a first ball joint, a second ball joint and a housing. Each ball joint is retained in the housing independent ball and socket relationships. Each ball joint and post defines a longitudinal axis. The housing defines a housing longitudinal axis. By way of the ball and socket relationship each ball joint longitudinal axis may form an angle of between about 0 to about 35 degrees with the housing longitudinal axis in any direction.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Cardia, Inc.Inventors: Michael Patrick Corcoran, Joseph A. Marino, Englong Tan
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Patent number: 10441259Abstract: A wound closure apparatus can be a self-contained device for delivery and deployment of a wound plug. The apparatus can include a post having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end of the post includes a coupling attachment. The apparatus can include a rod having a first end, a second end and a rod cavity that extends from the first end of the rod to the second end of the rod. The apparatus can also include a wound plug, having a first end, a second end, and a breakaway connection located between the first end and second end of the wound plug. In in an assembled configuration, the post can extend through the rod cavity and be detachably coupled to the breakaway connection such that the first end of the wound plug is positioned adjacent the second end of the rod.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Surgical Innovations LLCInventors: Peter E. Bippart, Diane S. Kindred
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Patent number: 10441260Abstract: An expander includes a first handle, a second handle, a first supporting member, and a second supporting member. The first handle includes a first gripping portion, a first pivoting portion, a first connecting portion, and an expanding compass. The second handle includes a second gripping portion, a second pivoting portion, and a second connecting portion. The second gripping portion includes a thru groove, and the expanding compass passes through the thru groove. The second pivoting portion is pivoted to the first pivoting portion. The second connecting portion and the second gripping portion are extending from two ends of the second pivoting portion, and the extension direction of the second connecting portion is not parallel to the extension direction of the second gripping portion.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2017Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignees: Megaforce Company Limited, Mackay Memorial HospitalInventors: Wen-Chieh Wu, Shu-Fen Chen, Pei-Yi Lee
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Patent number: 10441261Abstract: An apparatus for opening or closing a tissue opening in a biological subject, the apparatus including at least two flexible arms coupled to a tissue surface in use, each arm being curved outwardly in a mid-portion to accommodate a tissue opening therebetween and a biasing mechanism that selectively biases opposing ends of each arm to thereby at least one of bias mid-portions of the arms apart to assist in at least partially opening the tissue opening; and bias mid-portions of the arms towards each other to assist in at least partially closing the tissue opening.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: ROFFE MEDICAL HOLDINGS PTY LTD.Inventor: Kevin Marshall
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Patent number: 10441262Abstract: Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include an access valve that may be retrieved after implantation. The access valve may include a frame having a lumen, a self-expandable member extending through the lumen, and an elastic membrane extending through the lumen and a second end of the frame to releasably seal the lumen. The access valve may releasably attach to a wall of a patient and releasably seal an opening through the wall. The access valve may be attached to the wall by placing the frame adjacent the wall, extending the self-expandable member through the opening in the wall, and expanding the self-expandable member such that the self-expandable member applies a first force against the wall and a second force opposite the first force against the frame to sandwich the wall between the self-expandable member and the frame.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC LIMITEDInventors: Javier Palomar-Moreno, Emma J. Mooney, Michael Walsh, Martyn G. Folan, Gary Duffy
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Patent number: 10441263Abstract: Disclosed is a device for carrying out a distraction and/or compression of vertebral bodies.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2016Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Silony Medical International AGInventors: Frank Heuer, Timo Ohnmacht
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Patent number: 10441264Abstract: A soft tissue repair assembly. The assembly includes a flexible member having first and second ends, and a strand passing through the flexible member. The strand has first and second strand ends extending through the flexible member, such that pulling at least one of the first and second strand ends changes the flexible member from a first shape suitable for insertion through soft tissue to a second shape suitable for securely lodging the soft tissue repair assembly relative to soft tissue.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLCInventors: Kevin T. Stone, Troy M. Walters, Andrew Holst