Patents Issued in December 8, 2020
  • Patent number: 10856762
    Abstract: An atrial fibrillation detecting device includes a processor and a memory that stores a computer-readable command. When the computer-readable command is executed by the processor, the atrial fibrillation detecting device is configured to acquire pulse data representing a plurality of pulses, calculate a pulse rate based on the pulse data, calculate respective pulse amplitude indices of the plurality of pluses based on the pulse data, calculate an amplitude dispersion of the pulse amplitude indices based on the calculated pulse amplitude indices, calculate respective pulse interval indices of the plurality of pluses based on the pulse data, calculate an interval dispersion of the pulse interval indices based on the calculated pulse interval indices, and determine whether the pulse data is atrial fibrillation, based on the calculated pulse rate, the calculated amplitude dispersion, and the calculated interval dispersion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takashi Kaiami
  • Patent number: 10856763
    Abstract: A method of detecting abnormal heartbeats includes providing a library of abnormal beat synthesis (ABS) filters, wherein each ABS filter corresponds to a specific cause of a cardiac problem. The method further includes obtaining an ECG of a normal heartbeat of a person and applying an ABS filter from the library of ABS filters to the ECG of the normal heartbeat of the person to generate a potential abnormal ECG. The method further includes monitoring a heartbeat of the person and classifying each heartbeat as either normal or abnormal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: QATAR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Serkan Kiranyaz, Turker Ince, Moncef Gabbouj
  • Patent number: 10856764
    Abstract: A preferred conformal penetrating multi electrode array includes a plastic substrate that is flexible enough to conform to cortical tissue. A plurality of penetrating semiconductor micro electrodes extend away from a surface of the flexible substrate and are stiff enough to penetrate cortical tissue. Electrode lines are encapsulated at least partially within the flexible substrate and electrically connected to the plurality of penetrating semiconductor microelectrodes. The penetrating semiconductor electrodes preferably include pointed metal tips. A preferred method of fabrication permits forming stiff penetrating electrodes on a substrate that is very flexible, and providing electrical connection to electrode lines within the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Shadi A. Dayeh, Farid Azzazy, Sang Heon Lee
  • Patent number: 10856765
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes an electromagnetic field detection and monitoring system. The system includes passive detection, active detection, and signal processing capabilities. At least one embodiment includes a body worn system with sensing, processing, communications, and data storage capabilities. The system provides wearable antennas to transfer the EMF energy in its electrical or magnetic forms into the sensor efficiently. A specially designed processing algorithm can process the collected data and generated the results for medical professionals to read and make decisions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: LR Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Eugene Yu-Jiun Ren, Yexian Qin, Chiehping Lai
  • Patent number: 10856766
    Abstract: A removable smartphone case is disclosed. The removable smartphone case includes a case body configured to receive a smartphone, a radio frequency (RF) front-end connected to the case body and including a semiconductor substrate and an antenna array including at least one transmit antenna configured to transmit radio waves below the skin surface of a person and a two-dimensional array of receive antennas configured to receive radio waves, the received radio waves including a reflected portion of the transmitted radio waves, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes circuits configured to generate signals in response to the received radio waves, wherein the signals correspond to an alignment of the antenna array relative to a vein below the skin surface of the person, and a communications interface configured to transmit digital data that corresponds to the signals generated by the semiconductor substrate from the removable smartphone case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Movano Inc.
    Inventor: Michael A. Leabman
  • Patent number: 10856767
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave sensor for determining an interstitial fluid parameter in vivo comprises an implantable housing, and a sensor component hermetically encapsulated within the implantable housing. The sensor component comprises an electromagnetic wave transmitter unit configured to emit an electromagnetic wave signal in a frequency range between 300 MHz and 3 THz penetrating the implantable housing and penetrating an interstitial fluid probe volume, an electromagnetic wave receiver unit configured to receive the electromagnetic wave signal modified by the interstitial fluid probe volume, and a transceiver unit configured to transmit radio frequency signals related to the electromagnetic wave signal modified by the interstitial fluid probe volume. A system for determining an interstitial fluid parameter in vivo comprises the electromagnetic wave sensor and an external reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dettmann, Herbert Roedig, Georg Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10856768
    Abstract: A system includes an electrical interface and a processor. The electrical interface is configured for communicating with a probe inserted into a heart of a patient. The processor is configured to receive, via the electrical interface, (i) a first indication of an electrical impedance measured by the probe at a given location on an inner surface of the heart, and (ii) a second indication of a quality of mechanical contact between the probe and the inner surface of the heart during measurement of the electrical impedance. The processor is further configured, based on the first and second indications, to classify tissue at the given location as scar tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Daniel Osadchy, Meir Bar-Tal
  • Patent number: 10856769
    Abstract: A system for superimposing virtual anatomical landmarks on an image includes a medical positioning system (MPS) for producing location readings with respect to points within a region of interest in accordance with an output of a location sensor disposed in a medical device. A coordinate system of the MPS is registered with an image coordinate system. A control unit receives a signal from a user to record a location reading when the medical device is at a desired point in the region of interest where the user desires to place a virtual landmark, modifies the recorded location reading for motion compensation, transforms the motion-compensated location reading from the MPS coordinate system to the image coordinate system to produce a target location, and then superimposes a representation of the virtual landmark on the image at the target location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical International Holding S.àr.l.
    Inventors: Amit Cohen, Gera Strommer, Uzi Eichler
  • Patent number: 10856770
    Abstract: A surgical system comprises a display screen, an endoscopic device, and a non-transitory, computer-readable storage medium that stores a plurality of instructions for execution by one or more computer processors. The instructions are for: determining a current position of a reference point on the endoscopic device relative to a reference frame; determining a first vector from the current position to a position of a first landmark relative to the reference frame; transforming the first vector from the reference frame to an image reference frame that corresponds to a perspective of an image capturing device disposed at a tip of the endoscopic device; displaying a graphical representation of the transformed first vector along with a current image captured by the image capturing device—the displayed graphical representation indicates a direction to steer the tip of the endoscopic device towards the first landmark; and periodically repeating the above processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Giuseppe Maria Prisco, Vincent Duindam
  • Patent number: 10856771
    Abstract: A system for visually representing estimated ablation size is provided which includes sensors that acquire location signals indicating locations of an ablation device during an ablation of an organ and ablation parameters signals indicating ablation parameters during the ablation. The system also includes memory which stores location data and ablation parameter data corresponding to the location signals and ablation parameters signals. The system also includes a processing device which generates mapping information for displaying a map of the organ and first object information for displaying a first geometrical object having a first size which represents an estimated depth of the ablation of the organ. The processing device also generates second object information for displaying, concurrently with the first geometrical object, a second geometrical object having a second size which represents an estimated width of the ablation of the organ.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Meir Bar-Tal, Aharon Turgeman
  • Patent number: 10856772
    Abstract: A calculation device, a calculation method, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium including a calculation program with which a length of a target region required for a body model can be determined by means of a simple motion are provided. This calculation device configures a wearable device to initiate measurement of a measurement target region. After the measurement of the measurement target region is initiated, a worker wearing the wearable device performs a motion such as rotation of an arm, for example, etc. The calculation device acquires measured information two or more times over time and calculates a body model on the basis of the acquired measured information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Sayaka Naito, Yoshikazu Mori, Kazuki Kasai
  • Patent number: 10856773
    Abstract: A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the diameter of each hair from the acquired image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Conopco, Inc.
    Inventors: Abid Iftikhar, Georgina Elizabeth Lang, Robert McKeown, Justin Nobuyuki Minow Pinkney, Stephen Lee Wire
  • Patent number: 10856774
    Abstract: An eye sensor, system and method for measuring fixational eye movements of an individual's eyeball (e.g., ocular microtremors and microsaccades) to provide a variable voltage biosignal for measuring the individual's brain stem activity. The eye sensor comprises a sensor mounted on the individual's closed or opened eyelid so as to be deflected by the fixational eye movements of the eyeball. A shielded flexible ribbon assembly supplies the biosignal generated by the sensor to an amplifier located on the individual's skin where the biosignal is amplified. The amplifier is interconnected with a signal processor and a display by which graphical and numerical representations of the biosignal are made accessible to an anesthesiologist, intensivist or clinician. A method for analyzing the biosignal to determine the brainstem activity of a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Michael M Baltay, Clark B Foster, Ciaran Bolger, Martin Acquadro, Bruce A Rasmussen
  • Patent number: 10856775
    Abstract: A method of evaluating the likelihood that an occupant will exit an occupant support comprises determining if the location of the occupant on the occupant support is displaced relative to a reference location, and if the location of the occupant is so displaced, designating that the occupant is at a risk of exiting the occupant support which is elevated relative to the baseline risk. A support apparatus comprises a framework, a mattress, sensors distributed on the support apparatus to sense occupant weight distribution on the support apparatus, and a processor adapted to designate a risk of occupant egress as a function of the direction of the occupant weight distribution and the elevation status of the perimeter panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: David L. Ribble, Yongji Fu, Kirsten M. Emmons
  • Patent number: 10856776
    Abstract: According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising memory configured to store a user-specific calibration metric, and at least one processing core, configured to determine an activity type identifier of an activity a user is engaged in, and to determine a user-specific intensity level of the activity, wherein determining the user-specific intensity level is based at least partly on the identifier of the activity type, the user-specific calibration metric and data obtained from a kinematic or speed sensor, and to obtain the user-specific calibration metric by causing the apparatus to participate in a calibration procedure, the calibration procedure including communicating heart rate data of the user with a server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Amer Sports Digital Services Oy
    Inventors: Timo Eriksson, Mikko Martikka, Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 10856777
    Abstract: A method and device for identifying a human movement state that includes: determining according to acceleration signals that are collected by a three-axis acceleration sensor that a human is in a walking state, calculating a walking step number of the human, and calculating a walking step frequency according to the number; calculating a corresponding physical sign frequency during the walking process according to a physical sign signal that is collected; and comparing the walking step frequency and the physical sign frequency that are obtained by calculating respectively with a step frequency threshold and a physical sign frequency threshold, and if the walking step frequency is greater than the step frequency threshold, and the physical sign frequency is greater than the physical sign frequency threshold, determining that the human movement state is a running state, and recording the calculated walking step number to be a running step number.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: GOERTEK INC.
    Inventors: Bo Li, Na Li
  • Patent number: 10856778
    Abstract: It is disclosed an articulation rigidity assessment device for assessing the rigidity of the articulation when a bending motion is imposed to a limb of said articulation around a predetermined rotation axis of the articulation, said device comprising: a one-axis angular velocity sensor for attaching to said limb such that the axis of measurement is parallel to the axis of rotation of the imposed bending motion; a data processor configured to process the signal of the angular velocity sensor and to distinguish between non-rigid and rigid states of the articulation using the processed angular velocity signal. The articulation may be the wrist articulation of the patient and the limb is the respective hand. The device may comprise a skin-contacting patch for applying to the limb of the patient wherein the one-axis angular velocity sensor is attached to said skin-contacting patch. The skin-contacting patch may be applied to the palm or back of the hand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: INESC TEC—INSTITUTO DE ENGENHARIA DE SISTEMAS E
    Inventors: João Paulo Trigueiros Da Silva Cunha, Pedro Costa
  • Patent number: 10856779
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical measurement system (10) and measurement method for coaching an individual. The optical measurement system comprises a cloud database (8), a wireless communication device (7) and a vertical self-supporting equipment box (2) comprising a data processing device (20) comprising a computer program configured to measure ground contact and/or reaction time and position of a body part (1a) of a person (1) within a predetermined reaction area (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Arto Ruokonen
  • Patent number: 10856780
    Abstract: The invention provides an Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) system capable of acquiring two orthogonally polarized depth scans from a target such as the fingerprint region of a finger. In the preferred embodiment the birefringence of tissue components and, optionally, other aspects of the target are measured in order determine a characteristic of the target, such as whether it is real of fake finger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Joshua Noel Hogan
  • Patent number: 10856781
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for monitoring the brain's sub-cognitive activity through otoacoustic emissions. More specifically, the present invention deals with a method and device for monitoring the brain's functions that are manifested by sub-cognitive activities. The sub cognitive activities are monitored by matching to the spectrograms of a standard evoked oto-acoustic emissions signals to monitor mismatches as indicators of normal or malfunctioning sub cognitive neurological functions. The invention relates also to a device for monitoring the brain's sub-cognitive activity through otoacoustic emissions. More specifically, the present invention deals with a method and device for monitoring the brain's functions that are manifested by sub-cognitive activities. The sub cognitive activities are monitored by matching to the spectrograms of a standard evoked oto-acoustic emissions signals to monitor mismatches as indicators of normal or malfunctioning sub cognitive neurological functions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SensPD Ltd.
    Inventor: Raphael Rembrand
  • Patent number: 10856782
    Abstract: A health monitoring system comprises a housing, a test strip assembly, a lancet, a transparent cover, and a monitor. The test strip assembly is configured to detect concentration of the sample of the blood, using lancet. It also has multiple ways to test blood like a laser-based system and a wireless based blood measuring system. Further, it has a heart rate monitor system, blood pressure and weight measuring rechargeable straps, wireless systems for information exchange with other devices, two way communication systems, a flash light, a removable X-Ray lens system, an auto created individual profile system based on a multi-factor authentication system that is capable of automatic grouping of all test results or any data created by a user, auto retrieving from a remote computer server and auto installing on a device based on its limitations through onboard multi-factor authentications systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventor: Anand Kumar Chavakula
  • Patent number: 10856783
    Abstract: An electronic device includes a sensor that acquires a pulse wave and a controller that calculates an index based on the acquired pulse wave. The controller estimates the subject's state of glucose metabolism or lipid metabolism using the calculated index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KYOCERA Corporation
    Inventor: Hiromi Ajima
  • Patent number: 10856784
    Abstract: A method of initializing a sensor with a voltage sequence including a ramped voltage combined with a biphasic voltage pulse. The initialization scheme results in faster in-vitro sensor run-in and stabilization times. In various examples, the in-vitro sensor stabilization time is reduced from 200 minutes to 40-55 minutes (a reduction by a factor of least 5 as compared to a non-initialized sensor). In addition, staircase voltage initialization is implemented adaptively so that the voltage step size and sweep rates are changed depending on the state of the sensor (characterized by ISIG magnitude). As a result, individual sensors can be initialized in a customized manner rather than by using a general hardwired and harsh initialization scheme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventor: Anuj M. Patel
  • Patent number: 10856785
    Abstract: Methods and Devices to monitor the level of at least one analyte are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Abbott Diabetes Care Inc.
    Inventors: Marc Barry Taub, Jolyon Robert Bugler, Thomas A. Peyser
  • Patent number: 10856786
    Abstract: A system and method for controlling and monitoring a diabetes-management system through the use of a model that predicts or estimates future dynamic states of glucose and insulin from variables such as insulin delivery or exogenous glucose appearance as well as inherent physiological parameters. The model predictive estimator can be used as an insulin bolus advisor to give an apriori estimate of postprandial glucose for a given insulin delivery profile administered with a known meal to optimize insulin delivery; as a supervisor to monitor the operation of the diabetes-management system; and as a model predictive controller to optimize the automated delivery of insulin into a user's body to achieve a desired blood glucose profile or concentration. Open loop, closed-loop, and semi-closed loop embodiments of the invention utilize a mathematical metabolic model that includes a Minimal Model, a Pump Delivery to Plasma Insulin Model, and a Meal Appearance Rate Model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Garry M. Steil, Sami S. Kanderian, Jr., Martin T. Cantwell, Udo Hoss
  • Patent number: 10856787
    Abstract: Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data are disclosed, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. The sensor can be calibrated using a calibration set of one or more matched sensor and reference analyte data pairs. Reference data resulting from benchtop testing an analyte sensor prior to its insertion can be used to provide initial calibration of the sensor data. Reference data from a short term continuous analyte sensor implanted in a user can be used to initially calibrate or update sensor data from a long term continuous analyte sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: DexCom, Inc.
    Inventors: Jack Pryor, Apurv Ullas Kamath, Paul V. Goode, Jr., James H. Brauker, Aarthi Mahalingam
  • Patent number: 10856788
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure include a handheld multi-parameter patient monitor capable of determining multiple physiological parameters from the output of a light sensitive detector capable of detecting light attenuated by body tissue. For example, in an embodiment, the monitor is capable of advantageously and accurately displaying one or more of pulse rate, plethysmograph data, perfusion quality, signal confidence, and values of blood constituents in body tissue, including for example, arterial carbon monoxide saturation (“HbCO”), methemoglobin saturation (“HbMet”), total hemoglobin (“Hbt”), arterial oxygen saturation (“SpO2”), fractional arterial oxygen saturation (“SpaO2”), or the like. In an embodiment, the monitor displays a line associated with a patient wellness level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Cercacor Laboratories, Inc.
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Joe E. Kiani
  • Patent number: 10856789
    Abstract: A nano antenna for refractive index sensing is provided that includes a silica substrate, a gold nanodisk sensor element on a first side of the substrate, where the gold nanodisk sensor element includes a silica disk disposed on the substrate and a gold disk disposed on the silica disk, where a diameter of the gold disk is greater than a diameter of the silica disk, where a height of the silica disk is greater than a height of the gold disk, and a gold layer disposed on a second side of the substrate opposite the first side, where the gold layer covers an area as large as said gold nanodisk sensor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: The American University in Cairo
    Inventor: Ezzeldin Soliman
  • Patent number: 10856790
    Abstract: Transdermally emitted gasses are detected by applying a dermal sampling strip to the skin of a biological subject, capturing the gasses in a vapor space in the dermal sampling strip, and analyzing for at least one such gas captured in the vapor space of the dermal sampling strip. Analysis is preferably performed using an electrocatalytic cell, which can be mounted on the dermal sampling strip and form a wall of the vapor space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Exhalix LLC
    Inventors: Alireza Shekarriz, Debra May Friedrichsen
  • Patent number: 10856791
    Abstract: Bodily fluid sample collection systems, devices, and method are provided. The device may comprise a first portion comprising at least a sample collection channel configured to draw the fluid sample into the sample collection channel via a first type of motive force. The sample collection device may include a second portion comprising a sample container for receiving the bodily fluid sample collected in the sample collection channel, the sample container operably engagable to be in fluid communication with the collection channel, whereupon when fluid communication is established, the container provides a second motive force different from the first motive force to move a majority of the bodily fluid sample from the channel into the container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Labrador Diagnostics LLC
    Inventors: Patricia McHale, Michael Chen, Pey-Jiun Ko, Tammy Burd, Adrit Lath, Elizabeth A. Holmes, Joy Roy
  • Patent number: 10856792
    Abstract: Systems, devices, and techniques are disclosed for predicting a urinary event of a patient. In one example, a system comprises a fluid consumption cup comprising one or more sensors. The system may comprise communication circuitry configured to receive, from the fluid consumption cup, one or more signals that indicate an amount of fluid removed from the fluid consumption cup. The system may comprise processing circuitry configured to: update a patient log based on the one or more signals that indicate the amount of fluid removed from the fluid consumption cup; determine that the urinary event is predicted to occur, the occurrence of the urinary event predicted based on the patient log; and provide, in response to the determination and for receipt by the patient, a notification that the urinary event is predicted to occur.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: MEDTRONIC, INC.
    Inventors: Xuan K. Wei, Linnea Burman, Timothy J. Denison, Nnamdi Njoku, Maren Bean
  • Patent number: 10856793
    Abstract: A wheel frame (16a) includes a cylindrical hub (16c) into which an axle (11b) is rotatably inserted, a six-axis force sensor (16e) having an insertion hole (16e1) into which the hub (16c) is inserted, and an outer flange (16f) extending radially outward from an input section (16e2) of the six-axis force sensor (16e), wherein a hand rim (17) is attached to the outer flange (16f).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hiroshi Gomi, Yoshinao Sodeyama, Junji Takado, Hiroshi Uematsu, Toru Takenaka
  • Patent number: 10856794
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for determining the cardiorespiratory fitness level of a person, with the aid of freely performed exercise, in which training: the physiological intensity of the person is measured periodically during the exercise session, the external work output of the exercise session is measured simultaneously relative to the measured intensity, from each period's measured intensity value and external work output, the representativeness of the values measured is determined, in order to determine the fitness level using the following criteria: the physiological intensity should be stabilized relative to the external work output, the external work output should be within a selected range, the physiological intensity should be greater than a selected lower limit, in which case, a fitness level estimate is defined for each accepted period as well as a fitness from several estimates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Sami Saalasti, Aki Pulkkinen
  • Patent number: 10856795
    Abstract: A multifunction device for the measurement of the strain on the faces of load cells and displacement on the free ends of load cells allow measurement of the traction and/or compression force and energy expended by a muscle or muscle groups of the human body. Embodiments allow determination of the force profile, the instantaneous power and the average power. Also disclosed is a device for the measurement, recording and digital monitoring of the evolution of force and respective expended energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Universidade do Porto
    Inventors: Maria Teresa Braga Valente De Almeira Restivo, Manuel Rodrigues Quintas, Carlos Manuel De Sousa Moreira Da Silva, Tiago Faustino Andrade, Bruno Filipe Rodrigues Bento Dos Santos
  • Patent number: 10856796
    Abstract: A force measurement system is disclosed herein. The force measurement system includes a force measurement assembly configured to receive a subject thereon, and one or more data processing devices operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly. In one or more embodiments, the one or more data processing devices are configured to generate a first image portion comprising a primary screen image for viewing by the subject and display the first image portion using the at least one visual display device, and the one or more data processing devices are further configured to generate a second image portion comprising a virtual screen surround and display the second image portion using the at least one visual display device. The virtual screen surround of the second image portion is configured to at least partially circumscribe three sides of a torso of the subject and to substantially encompass a peripheral vision of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Bertec Corporation
    Inventors: Necip Berme, Jaswandi Tushar Pitale
  • Patent number: 10856797
    Abstract: Method and system for monitoring the autonomic nervous system (ANS) of a subject, comprising acquiring at least one physiological signal having W heartbeats, generating data which is a function of the variability of the heart rate on the W heartbeats, with the HRV having W?1 RR intervals separating two consecutive heartbeats detected respectively at the moments tk?1 and tk, each RR interval having a duration of value a?=t??t??1 with k=(X?W+2) . . . X; calculating at least one parameter taken from the parameter TAS(tx) representing the level of activity of the sympathetic system and/or the parameter TAP(tx) representing the level of activity of the parasympathetic system; and/or other parameters such as the parameter SL(tx) representing stress level of the subject at the moment tx and calculated using the equation such that SL(tx)=100+TAS(tx)?TAP(tx); and supplying data representative of at least one parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SOCIETE CODESNA
    Inventor: Vasile Zoicas
  • Patent number: 10856798
    Abstract: A monitoring system comprising: a uterine insert comprising an insert extension, wherein the insert extension comprises at least one sensor; a deployment module engageable with the insert, and configured to allow the insert extension to bend when the module is engaged with the insert; a system control device operationally coupled to continuously receive signals from the at least one sensor and to convert the signals into data representing the signals, and a display operationally coupled to display the data from the system control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: FERTIGO MEDICAL LTD
    Inventors: Victor Levin, Tsafrir Kolatt, Adi Strauss
  • Patent number: 10856799
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an automated method and system for generating a three-dimensional (3D) representation of a skin structure of a subject. The method comprises: acquiring a plurality of two-dimensional (2D) cross-sectional images of the skin structure, specifically, using optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique; computing a cost for each 2D cross-sectional image based on a cost function, the cost function comprising an edge-based parameter and a non-edge-based parameter; constructing a 3D graph from the 2D cross-sectional images; and determining a minimum-cost closed set from the 3D graph based on the computed costs for the 2D cross-sectional images, wherein the 3D representation of the skin structure is generated from the minimum-cost closed set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignees: Agency for Science, Technology and Research, National Skin Centre (Singapore) PTE LTD
    Inventors: Hong Liang Tey, Ruchir Srivastava, Ai Ping Yow, Jun Cheng, Annan Li, Wing Kee Damon Wong, Jiang Liu, Carolin Wall
  • Patent number: 10856800
    Abstract: A portable polysomnography apparatus comprises a unitary flexible structured pillow that is embedded with accelerometers for data collection. The polysomnography apparatus is advantageously sized and shaped to cause the sleeping subject to properly orient the embedded accelerometers for optimal data collection while the subject is asleep. A portable polysomnography system comprises a structured pillow with embedded sensors that are in wireless communication with a companion data collection device that records data from the embedded sensors. In an alternative embodiment, a system may include a structured pillow with an internal pocket into which a single device including embedded sensors and data recording capabilities is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: United States Government As Represented By The Department of Veterans Affairs
    Inventor: Steven H. Woodward
  • Patent number: 10856801
    Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to a system configured to detect slow wave sleep and/or non-slow wave sleep in a subject during a sleep session based on a predicted onset time of slow wave sleep and/or a predicted end time of slow wave sleep that is determined based on changes in cardiorespiratory parameters of the subject. Cardiorespiratory parameters in a subject typically begin to change before transitions between non-slow wave sleep and slow wave sleep. Predicting this time delay between the changes in the cardiorespiratory parameters and the onset and/or end of slow wave sleep facilitates better (e.g., more sensitive and/or more accurate) determination of slow wave sleep and/or non-slow wave sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Pedro Miguel Fonseca, Xi Long, Nicolaas Gregorius Petrus Den Teuling, Reinder Haakma, Ronaldus Maria Aarts
  • Patent number: 10856802
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for assessing the condition of and treating patients for heart failure by the delivery of continuous positive airway pressure are disclosed. Treatment of obstruction due to reflex vocal cord closure often experienced by heart failure patients is distinguished from treatment of upper airway obstruction typically associated with Obstructive Sleep Disorder. Treatment may also be implemented by delivering synchronized cardiac pressure oscillations superimposed on a respiratory pressure level to provide assistance for the heart. Heart treatment pressure dose indicator may be calculated for prescribing and monitoring the delivery of treatment. The apparatus may also generate data to track heart failure condition that may be indicative of the degree of severity of heart failure based upon breathing patterns to assist in the diagnosis and management of heart failure patients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Anthony John Ujhazy, Jonathan Caldwell Wright, Glenn Richards, David John Bassin, Michael Berthon-Jones
  • Patent number: 10856803
    Abstract: A closed loop brain stimulation system includes a means for reading electrophysiological signals from the brain; means for reading other biometric signals; means for stimulating the brain; and a control algorithm that dynamically adjusts the parameters of stimulation to minimize a reference utility function that computes the difference between the current and desired brain states, and current and desired biometric states.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Aqeel, LLC
    Inventors: Allon Guez, Bruce Katz, Jon Guez
  • Patent number: 10856804
    Abstract: A method determining adverse events from operation of an implantable blood pump including calculating a moving average convergence divergence (MACD) based on power consumed by the implantable blood pump to maintain a constant rotational speed of an impeller of the implantable blood pump. An alert is generated when the calculated MACD diverges from a predetermined MACD threshold and a predetermined MACD zero-crossing time threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: HeartWare, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Voskoboynikov, Veronica Ramos
  • Patent number: 10856805
    Abstract: For the purpose of allowing fat to be stably distinguished irrespective of individual differences, so as to prevent damage to nerves that surround a target organ, an image processing device includes: a fat-image-region extracting unit that extracts a fat-image region that indicates a region, in a living-tissue image, where fat exists; a fat-color-component detecting unit that detects a fat-color-component amount that determines the color of fat, from the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit; and a correction unit that corrects the signal intensity of the fat-image region extracted by the fat-image-region extracting unit on the basis of the fat-color-component amount detected by the fat-color-component detecting unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasunori Morita
  • Patent number: 10856806
    Abstract: A system and method for monitoring lung water content of a patient. The system may include at least two microwave sensors and a processor. The system may transmit one or more microwave signals into the thorax of a patient using one or more of the microwave sensors. The system may then receive one or more of the microwave signals using one or more of the microwave sensors. The one or more received microwave signals may each have at least one associated frequency component with a magnitude and a phase. The system may analyze the phase of one or more received microwave signals to monitor changes in the lung water content. The system may analyze the magnitude of one or more received microwave signals to determine whether the lung water content is increasing or decreasing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Inventors: Magdy F. Iskander, Ruthsenne R. G. Perron
  • Patent number: 10856807
    Abstract: System and method for analyzing components of one or more items at a time based on the analysis of image data and item component data and deciphering that data for the user. A user can use a computing device for item data input and the system recognizes or identifies items by image recognition, optical character recognition, voice recognition, typed query, barcode scan or a combination of those to analyze the item and return analysis of each item to the user's computing device through visual display, audible communication or a combination of both visual display and audible communication. System and method for analyzing items, recognizing or identifying the images of items, and analyzing the components of items is executed by referencing image databases, image recognition services, application program interfaces (APIs) and through machine learning to provide the user with analysis of items by processing the data that corresponds with those items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: GODDESS APPROVED PRODUCTIONS, LLC
    Inventor: Catherine Fitzpatrick
  • Patent number: 10856808
    Abstract: A bio-signal processing apparatus, a biometric information detection apparatus, and a method of detecting biometric information are provided. The bio-signal processing apparatus includes a first low pass filter (LPF) configured to have a first cutoff frequency, and output a first preprocessed signal having low frequency components of an input bio-signal that are less than the first cutoff frequency, a second LPF configured to have a second cutoff frequency, and output a second preprocessed signal in which high frequency components greater than or equal to the second cutoff frequency are removed from the input bio-signal, and a processor configured to output an output bio-signal for biometric information detection, based on the output first preprocessed signal and the output second preprocessed signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Keun Yoon, Ui Kun Kwon
  • Patent number: 10856809
    Abstract: An earpiece may include an earpiece housing, an intelligent control disposed within the earpiece housing, and a glucose sensor operatively connected to the intelligent control. The intelligent control may be configured to determine glucose levels associated with a user of the earpiece using the glucose sensor. The earpiece may further include a wireless transceiver disposed within the earpiece housing, the wireless transceiver operatively connected to the intelligent control. The glucose sensor may be a non-invasive glucose sensor such as a near infrared glucose sensor. The earpiece housing may be configured to position the glucose sensor against a wall of the external auditory canal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: BRAGI GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Vincent Boesen
  • Patent number: 10856810
    Abstract: Systems and methods for using a smart carpet to monitor a health status of an individual. The smart carpet has electronics and a plurality of pressure sensing areas for sensing plantar pressure of the individual. A monitoring computer comprising a processor and a memory including machine readable instructions processes carpet data. A first part of the smart carpet is scanned at a first frequency and a second part of the smart carpet is scanned at a second frequency greater than the first frequency. Plantar pressures are received from the second part of the carpet and the instructions evaluate the plantar pressures to determine at least one of a physical activity and a physiological activity. Where an emergency condition is determined, an alarm is communicated to monitoring personnel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona
    Inventors: Bijan Najafi, Hyoki Lee, He Zhou
  • Patent number: 10856811
    Abstract: A method for processing a quasi-periodic signal includes receiving a representation of a quasi-periodic signal and removing a DC component from the received signal to produce a purely time-varying signal. The time-varying signal is filtered to produce a pre-processed signal and at least a portion of a representation of the pre-processed signal is auto-correlated with itself. A corresponding auto-correlation output is stored in a memory device for the at least portion of the representation of the pre-processed signal. A biphasic tapering function is applied to the auto-correlation output, the tapering function including a time constant parameter that is a function of the quasi-periodic signal and producing a first maximum. A representation, based on the first maximum, is stored in the memory device as an indication of a rate or a frequency of the quasi-periodic signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: CSD LABS GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas J. Schriefl