Patents Issued in March 17, 2020
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Patent number: 10588512Abstract: An optical coherence tomography (OCT) system with dual optical coherence tomography probes is provided comprising: an optical scope comprising a distal end; a first OCT probe; and, a second OCT probe, each of the first OCT probe and the second OCT probe mechanically attached to the optical scope, the first OCT probe and the second OCT probe being substantially paraxial and configured to focus on a same scanning area, the optical scope configured to optically image the same scanning area using the distal end, the first OCT probe having a higher resolution than the second OCT probe.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SYNAPTIVE MEDICAL (BARBADOS) INC.Inventors: Siu Wai Jacky Mak, Michael Frank Gunter Wood
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Patent number: 10588513Abstract: An optical apparatus comprising a disposable non-magnetic optical fibre probe for coupling light into a sample and receiving light from the sample for performing Raman spectroscopy, and a non-magnetic optical extension releasably connected to the disposable non-magnetic optical probe for transmitting light into the disposable non-magnetic optical probe and receiving light from the disposable non-magnetic optical probe.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWSInventors: Kishan Dholakia, Praveen Cheriyan Ashok
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Patent number: 10588514Abstract: The present invention provides an in vivo photon analysis system and method, wherein the system comprises: an in vivo device and an in vitro device; the in vivo device comprises: an intervention function module which enters into a human body, outputs a laser output by the in vitro device to a preset position, and acquires a feedback fluorescence of the preset position; the in vitro device comprises: a laser light source module which outputs a first group of laser and a second group of laser; a coupling and switching module which couples the first group of laser to obtain a first to-be-output laser, couples the second group of laser to obtain a second to-be-output laser, acquires the feedback fluorescence, and sends the feedback fluorescence to an analyzing and testing module; an analyzing and testing module which receives the feedback fluorescence, and analyzes the feedback fluorescence, so as to obtain analysis results of the feedback fluorescence, and send the analysis results of the feedback fluorescence tType: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Hua Shang
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Patent number: 10588515Abstract: An apparatus for dental confocal imaging comprises an illumination module for generating an array of light beams, an optics system for confocal focusing of the array of light beams and a probe head with a light-guiding part having an entrance face and an exit face. The illumination module, the optics system and the probe head are arranged such that the array of light beams from the illumination module passes through the optics system, enters the light-guiding part via the entrance face and exits the light-guiding part via the exit face. The optics system is configured such that, after having passed through the optics system, the outermost marginal rays of the outermost light beams with respect to the optical axis of the optics system are parallel or divergent to the optical axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.Inventors: Yossef Atiya, Tal Verker, Nir Makmel
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Patent number: 10588516Abstract: A device and an according method for multispectral optoacoustic imaging of an object is provided comprising: an irradiation unit configured to irradiate the object with electromagnetic radiation at two or more different irradiation wavelengths the electromagnetic radiation having a time-varying intensity; a detection unit configured to detect acoustic waves generated in the object upon irradiating the object with the electromagnetic radiation at the different irradiation wavelengths; and a processing unit configured to reconstruct images of the object based on the detected acoustic waves generated in the object at each of the irradiation wavelengths and to determine a spatial distribution of at least one first concentration value, which relates to a concentration of at least one electromagnetic radiation absorber in the object.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: HELMHOLTZ ZENTRUM MUENCHEN DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER GESUNDHEIT UND UMWELT (GMBH)Inventors: Stratis Tzoumas, Ivan Olefir, Amir Rozental, Vasilis Ntziachristos
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Patent number: 10588517Abstract: Described herein is a method of operating an electronic device that includes collecting initial motion activity data from at least one sensor of the electronic device, and generating a initial probabilistic context of the electronic device relative to its surroundings from the initial collected motion activity data using a motion activity classifier function. The collected motion activity data is stored in a training data set, and the motion activity classifier function is updated using the training data set. The method also includes collecting subsequent motion activity data from the at least one sensor of the electronic device, and generating a subsequent probabilistic context of the electronic device relative to its surroundings from the subsequently collected motion activity data using the updated motion activity classifier function.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: STMicroelectronics, Inc., STMicroelectronics International N.V.Inventors: Mahesh Chowdhary, Arun Kumar, Ghanapriya Singh, Rajendar Bahl
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Patent number: 10588518Abstract: A congenital heart disease monitor utilizes a sensor capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of optical radiation into a tissue site and detecting the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flowing within the tissue site. A patient monitor is capable of receiving a sensor signal corresponding to the detected optical radiation and calculating at least one physiological parameter in response. The physiological parameter is measured at a baseline site and a comparison site and a difference in these measurements is calculated. A potential congenital heart disease condition in indicated according to the measured physiological parameter at each of the sites or the calculated difference in the measured physiological parameter between the sites or both.Type: GrantFiled: June 27, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATIONInventor: Massi Joe E. Kiani
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Patent number: 10588519Abstract: An activity monitoring device, methods and computer readable media are provided. The activity monitoring device includes a housing configured for attachment to a body part of a user and a display screen attached to the housing. Further included is a first sensor disposed in the housing for capturing motion of the activity monitoring device when attached to the body part of the user and a second sensor disposed in the housing for sampling a heart rate of the user. Memory is disposed in the housing for storing the motion captured by the first sensor and the heart rate sampled by the second sensor. A processor is disposed in the housing and is configured to determine a physical state of the user during a period of time. For motion that is below a threshold the processor identifies the physical state to be a sedentary state and for motion that is at or above the threshold the processor identifies the physical state to be an active state.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.Inventors: Shelten Gee Jao Yuen, James Park, Eric Nathan Friedman, Mark Manuel Martinez, Andrew Larsen Axley
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Patent number: 10588520Abstract: A sphygmomanometer cuff for a wearable sphygmomanometer includes a cuff body for wrapping around a predetermined portion of a body. The cuff body includes an air bag, a retaining plate, and an air tube. The air bag includes a top layer, a bottom layer, and an intermediate layer disposed between and spacing apart the top layer and the bottom layer. A sealed cavity is defined between the top layer and the bottom layer. The intermediate layer has a rough surface. The retaining plate is attached to an outer surface of the top layer of the air bag. The air tube extends through the retaining plate and connects with the sealed cavity of the air bag.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Sheng Zhou Yang
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Patent number: 10588521Abstract: The present invention provides a sphygmomanometer system, including a measurement device pressed against a predetermined part to be measured so that the part to be measured is held down, and a blood pressure measurement device to measure blood pressure based on information from the measurement device. The measurement device includes an average blood pressure detection unit to obtain information on pressure applied to the measurement device, and a blood pressure change amount detection unit to detect a minute change of the part to be measured when the blood pressure change amount detection unit contacts with the part to be measured. The processor of the blood pressure measurement device calculates the average blood pressure, the highest blood pressure, and the lowest blood pressure based on information on pressure obtained from the blood pressure change amount detection unit and the average blood pressure detection unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.Inventors: Akihiko Kandori, Yuko Sano, Toshio Tsuji, Harutoyo Hirano
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Patent number: 10588522Abstract: A biological sensor capable of improving the signal to noise ratio of a detection signal obtained by a light-receiving element and amplified by an amplifier is provided. The biological sensor includes a microcontroller that generates a driving signal, a light-emitting element that emits light in accordance with the driving signal, a light-receiving element that outputs a current detection signal based on an intensity of received light, and an amplifying circuit that converts the current detection signal into a voltage detection signal, amplifies an alternating current component of the voltage detection signal, and outputs an amplified detection signal. Furthermore, the microcontroller generates an offset signal that is applied to an offset circuit to offset the direct current component of the voltage detection signal and to obtain biological information by processing the amplified detection signal.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MURATA MANUFACTURING CO., LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Tsuchimoto, Takanori Hayashi, Kengo Saito, Hiroyuki Nakaji
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Patent number: 10588523Abstract: A computer-implemented method of visualizing blood flow through a patient using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes receiving an image of the portal venous system of the patient's liver at a full field of view. A reduced field of view is defined which encompasses the portal venous system of the patient's liver and excludes extraneous anatomy in the full field of view. A navigator area is defined in the full field of view and outside of the reduced field of view. Transmit channels are used to selectively excite the reduced field of view and the navigator area throughout a cardiac cycle of the patient. Measurement data is acquired in response to the selective excitation. The acquired data is used to generate time-resolved 3D datasets. Additionally, a 3D visualization of blood flow though the portal venous system is generated based on the time-resolved 3D datasets.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbHInventor: Agus Priatna
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Patent number: 10588524Abstract: A device for measuring a neural response evoked by a stimulus. First and second sense electrodes are positioned at distinct locations along a neural pathway. A neural stimulus is applied and first and second recordings of a neural response evoked by the stimulus are obtained from the respective sense electrodes. The first recording and the second recording are compared to determine propagation properties of the evoked neural response.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2012Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Saluda Medical Pty LtdInventors: Peter Scott Vallack Single, James Hamilton Laird
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Patent number: 10588525Abstract: Provided is a multi-point probe which is formed of a tubular laminate which is configured by winding an electronic contact sheet including a sheet-shaped insulating base material, a plurality of electronic contacts which are arranged to be separated from each other in a column shape on the sheet-shaped insulating base material, and a plurality of wirings which are connected to each of the electronic contacts on the sheet-shaped insulating base material from a first end towards a second end and laminating the electronic contact sheet to have multiple layers, in which the electronic contacts are not covered with the sheet-shaped insulating base material and are exposed, and the wiringsther than a wiring on the uppermost layer are laminated so that at least some parts thereof are covered with the sheet-shaped insulating base material.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Japan Science and Technology AgencyInventors: Takao Someya, Tsuyoshi Sekitani, Shinri Sakai
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Patent number: 10588526Abstract: Embodiments include microelectrodes including a flexible shank and a bioabsorbable material surrounding the flexible shank. The flexible shank can include a flexible substrate, a circuit, and a plurality of sensors. Embodiments also include a methods of forming flexible active electrode arrays including depositing a flexible polymer on a substrate. The methods also include forming a plurality of sensors on the flexible polymer and attaching a silicon-based chip to the flexible shank. The methods also include coating the flexible shank in a bioabsorbable material and cutting the shank and a portion of the bioabsorbable material from the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Shu-Jen Han
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Patent number: 10588527Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and techniques relating to generating and presenting information related to heart rate data. In one aspect, a system includes a monitoring device configured to obtain physiological data for a living being and to generate annotation data based on the physiological data for a total time period, a processing system configured to obtain the annotation data via a communication channel from the monitoring device and to generate for display based on the annotation data a daily patient report that includes, a chart showing summary statistical data for a proportion of a total monitored time period spent in cardiac arrhythmia for each of a plurality of days and summary statistical data for a proportion of the total monitored time period not spent in cardiac arrhythmia for each of the plurality of days.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2009Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Braemar Manufacturing, LLCInventors: Anna McNamara, Jonathan Newbrough, Charles Gropper, Aaron Goldmuntz, Yachuan Pu
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Patent number: 10588528Abstract: A handheld device measures all vital signs and some hemodynamic parameters from the human body and transmits measured information wirelessly to a web-based system, where the information can be analyzed by a clinician to help diagnose a patient. The system utilizes our discovery that bio-impedance signals used to determine vital signs and hemodynamic parameters can be measured over a conduction pathway extending from the patient's wrist to a location on their thoracic cavity, e.g. their chest or navel. The device's form factor can include re-usable electrode materials to reduce costs. Measurements made by the handheld device, which use the belly button as a ‘fiducial’ marker, facilitate consistent, daily measurements, thereby reducing positioning errors that reduce accuracy of standard impedance measurements. In this and other ways, the handheld device provides an effective tool for characterizing patients with chronic diseases, such as heart failure, renal disease, and hypertension.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TOSENSE, INC.Inventors: Matthew Banet, Marshal Singh Dhillon, Susan Meeks Pede, Lauren Nicole Miller Hayward, Arthur Deptala, Jonas Dean Cochran
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Patent number: 10588529Abstract: An ECG monitoring system includes two or more active electrodes, each active electrode having an electrode pad fixable to a patient to sense physiological potentials from the patient, a common connection port, and a wireless transmitter. The system further includes a common connector electrically connected to the common connector port of each of the two or more active electrodes to provide a comparator signal to each of the active electrodes. Each of the active electrodes compares the physiological potentials sensed at the electrode pad against the comparator signal to generate a cardiac signal, and then wirelessly transmits the cardiac signal with the wireless transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Otto Valtteri Pekander, Emma Elina Ikonen, Jussi Olavi Halinen, Ville Petteri Vartiovaara, Juha Petri Virtanen
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Patent number: 10588530Abstract: The present invention is directed to a physiological recording device, or other types of sensors to detect a biopotential, and more particularly, a physiological recording electrode that can be used without skin preparation or the use of electrolytic gels. The invention is further directed to the configurations of structures on the physiological recording electrode's lower surface. The structures having a length, width, and height, which are capable, at least in part, of transmitting an electric potential from the skin which can be measured. The structures may or may not limit the depth of application, and/or anchor the electrode or other device during normal application, and/or allow for uniform application of the electrode or other device over unprepared skin.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Orbital Research Inc.Inventors: Aaron Rood, Greg S. Shaw, Matthew Birch, Frederick J. Lisy
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Patent number: 10588531Abstract: Systems and methods for determining prevalence of a cardiac phenomenon based on electrophysiological (EP) data from a tissue of a body are provided. The EP data is measured by at least one sensor disposed on at least one medical device that is positionable near the tissue of the body. A system includes an electronic control unit communicatively coupled to a display device and configured to, for each of the plurality of locations, detect, at each of a plurality of discrete times occurring during a predetermined time period, whether a cardiac phenomenon occurs at the location based on the EP data, determine a prevalence of the cardiac phenomenon based on the detecting, and display information indicative of the determined prevalence of the cardiac phenomenon on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventor: Srijoy Mahapatra
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Patent number: 10588532Abstract: A system can include a near-field instrument to be placed inside a chamber of a heart, a far-field instrument to be placed in a stable position in relation to the heart, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to identify a unique pattern in electrogram information received from the far-field instrument when the near-field instrument is in one or more positions within the heart. When the unique pattern is detected, the control unit is configured to receive electrogram information from the near-field instrument. While recording electrogram information from the near-field instrument, the control unit is also configured to record voltage and complex fractionated atrial electrogram (CFAE) characteristics of the tissue inside a heart chamber. This information combined with rotor information can be used to identify substrate versus non-substrate rotor characteristics.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: AFTx, Inc.Inventors: Bao Nguyen, Jerome Edwards, Paul Kessman, Thomas Kurian, Donald Conty
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Patent number: 10588533Abstract: A bioelectrode component includes an electrode member. The electrode member includes a metal plate, a coupling bar, and a needle part. The metal plate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, and includes an opening formed in the metal plate. The coupling bar extends inward from an inner wall of the opening. The needle part is arranged at a leading end of the coupling bar and protrudes toward the first surface of the metal plate.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: SHINKO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES CO., LTD.Inventors: Hideaki Sakaguchi, Yoshihiro Ihara
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Patent number: 10588534Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed to detect and/or classify electrophysiological signals as motor events.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Colorado Seminary, which owns and operates the University of DenverInventors: Mohammad H. Mahoor, Soroush Niketeghad, Adam O. Hebb, Sara J. Hanrahan, Joshua Nedrud, Hosein M. Golshan
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Patent number: 10588535Abstract: A method for determining a sequence of activation of a set of brain networks by an electronic device in the course of a predetermined cognitive task. The method includes: obtaining at least one time series of data on encephalographic activities, according to a predetermined sampling value, the data on activities representing a signal captured on the cranial surface by a capture device, during the execution of the predetermined cognitive task by at least one individual, delivering a set having at least one measurements vector per sample of the time series; for each measurements vector, determining connectivity between cortical sources, the cortical sources being obtained through measurements of a measurements vector, delivering a connectivity network; and grouping connectivity networks according to a resemblance parameter delivering a set of groups of grouped connectivity networks, each representing an activity of a given brain network at a given instant.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: UNIVERSITE DE RENNES 1, INSTITUT NATIONALE DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALEInventors: Fabrice Wendling, Mahmoud Hassan
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Patent number: 10588536Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for identifying non-penetrating brain injury in a subject, as well as methods for classifying a subject that received a hit to the body that transmitted an impulsive force to the brain as either having a non-penetrating brain injury or not, by analyzing one or more components of frequency-following response (FFR) following administration of an acoustic stimulus to the subject. In addition, the present disclosure provides methods for assessing a subject's recovery from a non-penetrating brain injury. Also disclosed herein are processes and systems for automatically generating acoustic stimuli and processing brain response data to identify non-penetrating brain injuries in subjects.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Northwestern UniversityInventors: Nina Kraus, Trent George Nicol, Jennifer Lynn Krizman, Travis Aaron White-Schwoch
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Patent number: 10588537Abstract: Methods, systems and probe devices for detecting EMG activity are used in aiding the diagnosis of Obstruction Sleep Apnea (OSA). A probe comprises an elongated member configured with a size and shape for placement adjacent at least one of the soft palate and pharyngeal wall of the patient after insertion of the probe into the patient. The probe includes at least one sensor configured to sense at least EMG activity of muscle layers of at least one of the soft palate and pharyngeal wall and output sensor signals corresponding thereto.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Powell Mansfield, Inc.Inventors: Nelson Powell, Perry Thomas Mansfield
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Patent number: 10588538Abstract: The invention relates to a medical imaging system having microwave emitting antennas and antennas for receiving the electromagnetic field, which are arranged around a space for receiving a human tissue medium to be observed, and comprising: an array (3) of emitting antennas and an array (4) of receiving antennas, wherein said two arrays (3, 4) are independent, and motors capable of angularly rotating and of translating the emitting array (3) and/or the receiving array (4) relative to the space under observation, in order to enable the scanning thereof.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: MVG INDUSTRIES, OFFICE NATIONAL D'ETUDES ET RECHERCHES AEROSPATIALES (ONERA)Inventors: Juan Carlos Castelli, Luc Duchesne, Virginie Tessier, Ludovic Durand, Philippe Garreau, Nicolas Adnet, Stéphane Thiébaut
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Patent number: 10588539Abstract: An electrode with varying impedances includes a plurality of layers that are compressed together with varying compressions forces. A first compression force is used at the perimeter of the electrode and a second compression force is used towards the center of the electrode. The first compression force at the perimeter is lesser than the second compression force towards the center and creates a greater measured impedance at the perimeter of the electrode than at the center of the electrode.Type: GrantFiled: February 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Tomasz Andrzej Kosierkiewicz
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Patent number: 10588540Abstract: An apparatus for detecting abnormal masses such as breast cancer includes a measurement sensor configured to obtain a voltage at a first area of a first breast of a subject; a reference sensor configured to obtain a voltage at a second area of a second breast of the subject, a position of the first area corresponding to a position of the second area; and a detector, wherein the detector includes a differential amplifier configured to amplify a voltage input from the at least one of the measurement sensor and the reference sensor; an active low pass filter configured to pass a signal frequency of a low frequency band among signals transmitted from the differential amplifier; a driver amplifier configured to amplify a signal passed through the active low pass filter; and an analog-to-digital (AD) converter configured to convert the signal amplified by the driver amplifier into a digital signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Inventor: Kyongho Lee
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Patent number: 10588541Abstract: A method and system for magnetically tracking a device of interest generating a plurality of pre-determined multi-frequency signals. The method and system transmits a plurality of magnetic fields from a transmitter circuit based on the corresponding pre-determined multi-frequency signals. The magnetic fields propagating through an area of examination encompassing the device of interest and a magnetic sensor coupled to the device of interest. The method and system generate a sensor signal at the magnetic sensor indicative of field strength of the magnetic fields transmitted by the transmitter circuit. Further, the method and system determine a position of the magnetic sensor relative to the transmitter circuit based on the multi-frequency signals and the sensor signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Peter William Lorraine, Floribertus P. M. Heukensfeldt Jansen
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Patent number: 10588542Abstract: A wearable sensor belt used as a reference frame for determining a location of an in-vivo device in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, the belt including N magnetic field generating coils and M magnetic field sensors configured for dynamic calibration of the belt's geometry in order to accommodate for dynamic changes in the shape and/or size of the belt from one subject to another, and for dynamic changes in the shape and/or size of the belt as a result of changes in a subject's posture. A method for localizing an in-vivo device swallowed by a subject using a sensor belt is also described.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: GIVEN IMAGING LTD.Inventors: Semion Khait, Oren Rosenberg
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Patent number: 10588543Abstract: A medical apparatus, including a reference probe having a flexible insertion tube with a distal end for insertion into a body cavity, a pair of isolated electrodes fixedly attached to the distal end, and a position sensor fixedly located in the distal end. The apparatus also includes a supplementary probe having an electrode fixed thereto. The apparatus further includes a processor, configured to inject respective alternating currents into the pair of isolated electrodes so as to generate an electrical field therefrom, to measure a potential generated at the electrode of the supplementary probe in response to the electrical field, and to evaluate a location of the supplementary probe with respect to the reference probe in response to the measured potential and in response to a position of the distal end indicated by the position sensor.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2013Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel), Ltd.Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Daniel Osadchy
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Patent number: 10588544Abstract: Ingestible event markers having high reliability are provided. Aspects of the ingestible event markers include a support, a control circuit, a first electrochemical material, a second electrochemical material and a membrane. In addition, the ingestible event markers may include one or more components that impart high reliability to the ingestible event marker. Further, the ingestible event markers may include an active agent. In some aspects, the active agent, such as a pharmaceutically active agent or a diagnostic agent may be associated with the membrane.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc.Inventors: Hooman Hafezi, Kit Yee Au-Yeung, Robert Duck, Maria Holen, Timothy Robertson, Benedict Costello
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Patent number: 10588545Abstract: A monitoring system comprises a floor covering with a sheet-type pressure sensor and a sensor control unit. The latter includes an ADC for providing a digital raw signal, a microcontroller configured to carry out data extraction by signal processing of the digital raw signal and generating a digital processed signal having a lower digital bandwidth than the digital raw signal, and a communications module connected to or integrated within the microcontroller so as to receive the digital processed signal. The communications module is configured to establish data communication with one or more database servers and to transmit the extracted data to the one or more database servers.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: TARKETT GDLInventors: Pascal Di Croce, Christophe Reithler
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Patent number: 10588546Abstract: This disclosure relates to a system and method to analyze balance and stability of a patient. Test data for the patient, representing motion of a device affixed to the patient during a test interval (e.g., at a position approximating the center of mass, such as in proximity to the torso), can be received. The test data can be processed to provide processed data (or sensor-derived data) that includes at least one of acceleration data, rotational rate data and rotational position data for the test interval. A biomechanical model can be applied to the processed data to provide center of mass (COM) motion data representing movement of the COM in multiple dimensions for the patient during the test interval. An indication of balance for the patient can be determined based on the COM motion data. The indication of balance can be used to analyze the balance and stability of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONInventors: David D. Schindler, Jay L. Alberts, Joshua R. Hirsch
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Patent number: 10588547Abstract: Systems for studying motion are provided. A computing device [10] has a processor [20], an accelerometer [11], a gyroscope [12], a magnetometer [13] and storage/computer readable media [30] in communication with one another. The computing device [10] can sense, classify, qualify and/or quantify real-time motion data of a moving target against classified initial motion data in a motion library [32]. Motion data is processed as particularized units of motion. The computing device [10] may use machine learning algorithms for “training” and “learning.” The computing device [10] can be used in many industries, including the fitness industry, where computing device [10] can be used with wearable technology.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: InMotion, LLCInventor: Srini G. Naidu
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Patent number: 10588548Abstract: A chewing detecting device includes: earphone-type external auditory meatus sensors which have a pair of a light emitting element and a light receiving element and in which the light receiving element receives reflective light of light emitted by the light emitting element into an external auditory meatus to output a voltage signal corresponding to a light receiving amount; association processing means associating an output signal of the external auditory meatus sensors with a motion of a jaw, and outputting a chewing signal showing that the jaw performs chewing; and chewing section sensing means which determines whether or not an output of the external auditory meatus sensors is based on the motion of the jaw (within a chewing section), and which invalidates the output of the association processing means when the output of the external auditory meatus sensors is not based on the motion of the jaw (without the chewing section).Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignees: LOTTE CO., LTD., DENTSU INC.Inventors: Tetsuya Seki, Shusaku Hirota, Yusuke Chishiro
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Patent number: 10588549Abstract: A driver's physical condition detection device for detecting a physical condition of a driver driving a vehicle includes a vehicle detector configured to detect a change in motion of the vehicle during driving, a driver detector configured to detect a change in motion of a head of the driver, and a physical condition determination portion configured to perform a determination process of determining whether or not the physical condition of the driver is deteriorated, based on the change in motion of the head of the driver with respect to the change in motion of the vehicle during driving.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: MAZDA MOTOR CORPORATIONInventors: Youichiro Nakahata, Yohei Iwashita, Junichiro Kuwahara, Ryohei Hisamitsu
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Patent number: 10588550Abstract: A method, apparatus, and system for measuring respiratory effort of a subject are provided. A thorax effort signal and an abdomen effort signal are obtained. The thorax effort signal and the abdomen effort signal are each divided into a volume-contributing component of the respiratory effort and a paradox component. The paradox component represents a non-volume-contributing component of the respiratory effort. The abdomen paradox component is negatively proportional to the thoracic paradox component. The thorax effort signal or the abdomen effort signal or both are weighted by a weight factor to obtain a volume-proportional signal. The volume-proportional signal is proportional to the actual respiratory volume of the respiratory effort. A calibration factor for calibrating the thorax effort signal and the abdomen effort signal is obtained by optimizing the weight factor by minimizing thoracic paradox component and the abdomen paradox component.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: NOX MEDICALInventors: Sveinbjorn Hoskuldsson, Haraldur Tomas Hallgrimsson, Gudjon Teitur Sigurdarson
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Patent number: 10588551Abstract: A sensor cable support device is described. The sensor cable support device can be used to implemented in wearable monitoring device to support a proximal portion of a sensor cable and electrically connect the proximal portion with a sensing circuitry. A distal portion of the sensor cable is insertable into a person's skin. The sensor cable support device may include a rigid body defining a pair of openings, a set legs attached to the rigid body, and a pair of electrical traces extending between the pair of openings and distal ends of a pair of legs of the set of legs. The pair of openings may be sized and configured to receive a pair of pucks that mechanically retain a sensor cable to the body and electrically connect the sensor cable with the electrical traces.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: DexCom, Inc.Inventors: Pey-Jiun Ko, Arthur Lin, Timothy Stowe
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Patent number: 10588552Abstract: A substance concentration analysis method includes calculating a difference for the particular time between a first measured amount of mid-infrared (MIR) radiation absorbed by or emitted from a body in a first wavelength and a second measured amount of MIR radiation absorbed by or emitted from the body in a second wavelength, calculating a quotient including a dividend based on the difference divided by a divisor based on a dT/dt value, and calculating the concentration of the substance in the body based on a correlation with the quotient.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: GlucoVista Inc.Inventors: Yonatan Gerlitz, Efraim Landa, Alexander Ostritsky
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Patent number: 10588553Abstract: The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Jeroen Poeze, Marcelo Lamego, Sean Merritt, Cristiano Dalvi, Hung Vo, Johannes Bruinsma, Ferdyan Lesmana, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Greg Olsen
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Patent number: 10588554Abstract: The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2019Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Jeroen Poeze, Marcelo Lamego, Sean Merritt, Cristiano Dalvi, Hung Vo, Johannes Bruinsma, Ferdyan Lesmana, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Greg Olsen
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Patent number: 10588555Abstract: A pulse oximeter (1, 2) includes a first light emitter (11) configured to generate first light, a second light emitter (12) configured to generate second light with a different wavelength from that of the first light, and a light receiver (13) configured to receive each of first return light of the first light from a living body and second return light of the second light from the living body. The pulse oximeter is provided with: a contact pressure detecting device (14) configured to detect a signal associated with contact pressure between the pulse oximeter and the living body; and an outputting device (100) configured to output information regarding oxygen saturation, on the basis of respective signals outputted from the light receiver due to the first return light and the second return light, and the detected signal associated with the contact pressure.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2014Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: PIONEER CORPORATIONInventor: Yutaka Matsui
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Patent number: 10588556Abstract: A sensor cover according to embodiments of the disclosure is capable of being used with a non-invasive physiological sensor, such as a pulse oximetry sensor. Certain embodiments of the sensor cover reduce or eliminate false readings from the sensor when the sensor is not in use, for example, by blocking a light detecting component of a pulse oximeter sensor when the pulse oximeter sensor is active but not in use. Further, embodiments of the sensor cover can prevent damage to the sensor. Additionally, embodiments of the sensor cover prevent contamination of the sensor.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Abraham Mazda Kiani, Massi Joe E. Kiani
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Patent number: 10588557Abstract: Systems and methods for applying time-dependent algorithmic compensation functions to data output from a continuous analyte sensor. Some embodiments determine a time since sensor implantation and/or whether a newly initialized sensor has been used previously, for example, by initializing a sensor, acquiring sensor data, using the sensor, to measure an analyte level in the host's body over a first interval based on a first elapsed time since the sensor was implanted, determining whether the sensor has been previously used in a previous sensor session or the sensor is a new sensor, and upon determining the sensor is a new sensor, adjusting the acquired sensor data to compensate for sensor drift of the new sensor by applying a first set of time-dependent algorithmic functions to the sensor data associated with the first interval.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: DexCom, Inc.Inventors: Michael J. Estes, Stephen J. Vanslyke, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Thomas A. Peyser, Lucas Bohnett, Aarthi Mahalingam, Arturo Garcia, Peter C. Simpson, Anna Leigh Davis, Sebastian Böhm
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Patent number: 10588558Abstract: A needle assembly is disclosed. The needle assembly includes a housing having a flash chamber, and having a distal end and a proximal end engageable with a specimen collection container. The assembly includes a cannula having a patient end, a non-patient end, and a sidewall extending therebetween defining a cannula interior. The patient end of the cannula projects at least partially from the distal end of the housing, and the cannula interior is in fluid communication with the flash chamber. The assembly further includes a shield restrainably engaged with a portion of the housing and axially transitionable over the patient cannula from a retracted position in which the patient end is exposed, to an extended position in which the patient end is shielded by at least a portion of the shield, wherein at least a portion of the flash chamber is visible in the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Jamieson W. Crawford, Bradley M. Wilkinson, Chee Leong Alvin Tan, Tiong Yee Sim, C. Mark Newby, Jon Yaohan Moh, Robert G. Ellis, Neville Yu Leng Chia, Benjamin R. Bartfeld
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Patent number: 10588559Abstract: An air-conditioning control system provides an appropriate environment in accordance with a stress level of a person in a room and a use of a space in which the person stays. A deriver derives heartbeat-related parameters based on a body movement of the person. A determiner determines a stress level of the person at a current moment, based on the heartbeat-related parameters. A receiver receives a use of the space for the person. A CPU for appliance control (i) selects a heartbeat-related parameter to be changed, depending on the received use and the heartbeat-related parameters, and (ii) controls operation of the air conditioner to change the selected heartbeat-related parameter to be changed.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Daikin Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Takehiko Hiei, Kazuhisa Shigemori, Sayo Toramoto
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Patent number: 10588560Abstract: Systems and methods for facilitating exercise monitoring are provided.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: CM HK LIMITEDInventors: Shih-Wei Chen, Ching-Lin Hsieh
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Patent number: 10588561Abstract: System and method for processing, non-concurrently collected, electroencephalogram (EEG) data and resting station functional magnetic resonance imaging (rsfMRI) data, non-invasively, to create a patient-specific three-dimensional (3D) mapping of the patient's functional brain network. The mapping can be used to more precisely identify candidates of resective neurosurgery and to help create a targeted surgical plan for those patients. The methodology automatically maps the patient's unique brain network using non-concurrent EEG and resting state functional MRI (rsfMRI). Generally, the current invention merges non-concurrent EEG data and rsfMRI data to map the patient's epilepsy/seizure network.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2018Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: University of South FloridaInventors: Fernando Vale, Elliot George Neal