Patents Issued in April 6, 2021
  • Patent number: 10966640
    Abstract: A system for a healthcare provider to administer a portable interactive hearing assessment is provided. The system allows the healthcare provider to administer the hearing assessment in a way that accurately detects hearing loss and provides recommendations for seeking further assistance from qualified hearing health specialists and/or an ENT physician. The system includes a hearing test device, and a processor that receives and processes a pressure test result associated with each of the patient's ear from a tympanometer and the patient's response to one or more pure tone frequencies transmitted by the hearing test device. The processor may also provide a report and recommendation based on received pressure test result and the determined hearing results, and demonstrate effects of any hearing loss to a person accompanying the patient so that the accompanying person understands a scope of the patient's hearing loss.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: dB Diagnostic Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Steven Brian Levine
  • Patent number: 10966641
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a dialysis device (1), more particularly a microdialysis device for the sampling of substances from the surface of a body organ. The device is particularly useful in the context of the monitoring of a moving organ, such as a beating heart, as the device comprises attachment means (2) allowing for a flexible and reliable attachment thereto. Furthermore, the microdialysis device provides for an efficient exchange of substances, such as metabolic substances, between the organ and the dialysis fluid through a semi-permeable material forming part of the device. There is also provided a method encompassing the device of the disclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SENZIME AB (PUBL.)
    Inventors: Pernilla Abrahamsson, Robert Herz, Einar Pontén, Bjoern Glaesel
  • Patent number: 10966642
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photoplethysmography apparatus (100), comprising a source of light (110) configured to provide source light (130) of at least a first and a second spectral position directed at a tissue (140); alight detector (120) configured to detect scattered source light, and to provide at least a first and a second sensor signal (127, 29) indicative of the scattered source light of the first and second spectral position; and a processing unit (150). The processing unit is configured to calculate a corrected sensor signal (160), indicative of a variation in blood absorbance within the tissue, by removing a tissue-path error signal component, indicative of a variation in optical path length through the tissue over time, and a light-coupling error signal component, indicative of a variation of source light intensity of the source light emitted at the tissue, from the at least first and second sensor signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Olaf Thomas Johan Antonie Vermeulen
  • Patent number: 10966643
    Abstract: Systems and devices of the present disclosure provide automated detection and tracking of carbon monoxide inhalation through non-invasive optical spectroscopy. A wearable device includes a light source coupled to the base and directing light towards a subject and a photodetector coupled to the base to receive light emitted by the light source through or reflected the subject. The light source emits light at a wavelength spectrum corresponding to a carboxyhemoglobin absorption spectrum and an oxyhemoglobin absorption spectrum. Biometric circuitry is coupled to the photodetector to receive a signal from the photodetector and process the signal to determine an intensity of the wavelengths present in the light received at the photodetector. The intensity of the wavelengths is indicative of a level of carbon monoxide inhalation associated with the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Hamed Vavadi, Lindsey Michelle Sunden, Peter W. Richards, Chris Hanrahan Sarantos
  • Patent number: 10966644
    Abstract: Devices, systems, methods and kits for releasably mounting a medical device on the body or skin of a user are provided. Embodiments include a holder or mounting unit or structure that retains a medical device in a fixed position on a body part of a user or host, such as on the surface of the skin, and/or provides physical and/or electrical coupling to one or more additional components which may be operatively positioned above and/or below the surface of the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.
    Inventor: Gary Ashley Stafford
  • Patent number: 10966645
    Abstract: A device for taking a sample of liquid by capillarity, including a channel for flow of the liquid delimited by two internal walls of the device between which a channel bottom extends, the distance separating the two internal walls decreasing in the direction of the channel bottom, the channel extending between a first collecting end, open onto outside of the device and configured to receive the liquid, and a second end, to enable the liquid to flow by capillarity along the channel bottom from the first end towards the second end. The channel includes, at the second end, a blocking structure to block the flow of liquid in the channel from the first end towards the second end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES
    Inventors: Patrick Pouteau, Jean Berthier, Vincent Poher
  • Patent number: 10966646
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for collecting a predetermined amount of blood or other fluid using an automated sampling system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Phlebotics, Inc.
    Inventors: Candice B. Kissinger, Peter Kissinger
  • Patent number: 10966647
    Abstract: A mobile electronic device is operable to detect and display a mental state of a user such as drowsiness. The mobile electronic device includes a heartrate sensor, a processor, and a display. The heartrate sensor is operable to provide a heartbeat signal indicative of a heartbeat of the user. The processor is operable to: acquire a beat-to-beat interval based upon the heartbeat signal and determine a drowsiness level of the user based at least in part upon the beat-to-beat interval. The display is operable to display an indication of the drowsiness level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventors: Norbert Galm, Robert G. Mayster, Manuel F. Fehler
  • Patent number: 10966648
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: receiving, by a computing device, information identifying a user's activity; determining, by the computing device, the user's tasks based on the information identifying the user's activity; determining, by the computing device, the user's context switches based on the user's tasks; receiving, by the computing device, biometrics data associated with the user via an application programming interface (API); determining, by the computing device, the user's stress levels at various times based on the biometrics data; storing, by the computing device, information linking the user's stress level with the user's context switches; and outputting, by the computing device, the information linking the user's stress level with the user's context switches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: John V. Delaney, Sean T. Fomash, Anthony M. Hunt, Maeve O'Reilly, Clea A. Zolotow
  • Patent number: 10966649
    Abstract: A bioelectrode sheet (100) is configured to be affixed to the skin of a subject, a drug (104b) being mixed in an adhesive layer (104) provided at a peripheral position of a conductive gel layer (103) so as to avoid the conductive gel layer (103). The drug (104b) admixed with the adhesive layer (104) can thereby be caused to penetrate the body while biological information is acquired by an electrode (102) via the conductive gel layer (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUKUDA DENSHI CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yutaka Fukuda
  • Patent number: 10966650
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for detecting arrhythmias in cardiac activity is provided. The method and systems are under control of one or more processors configured with specific executable instructions. The method and systems obtain a far field cardiac activity (CA) signal that includes a series of beats, the CA signal including paced events. The method and systems identify the paced events in the CA signals. The method and systems determine a score based on an amount of paced events and adjust at least one parameter of an atrial fibrillation (AF) detection process based on the score.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: PACESETTER, INC.
    Inventors: Fujian Qu, Stuart Rosenberg, Xing Pei, Carin Folman, Jennifer Rhude
  • Patent number: 10966651
    Abstract: An information processing method is executed by a computer having a control unit, wherein the control unit executes: acquiring a plurality of biological signals; detecting for each predetermined time unit a peak part of the respective biological signals; attaching identical identification information to one or a plurality of peak parts forming an identical peak when attaching peak identification information to each of the biological signals; and extracting a combination of corresponding peaks from at least two biological signals on the basis of the identification information of each time unit of the at least two biological signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: JINS HOLDINGS Inc.
    Inventor: Taiki Komoda
  • Patent number: 10966652
    Abstract: A system and method for scoring movement disorder symptoms comprises a movement measurement data acquisition system and processing comprising kinematic feature extraction and an algorithm trained using Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) and Movement Disorder Society UPDRS (MDS-UPDRS) scores from skilled clinicians. The movement data acquisition system, or “movement measuring apparatus,” may comprise sensors such as accelerometers or gyroscopes or may utilize motion capture and/or machine vision technology or various other methods to measure tremor, bradykinesia, gait and balance disturbances, dyskinesia, or other movement disorders in a subject afflicted with Parkinson's disease, essential tremor or the like. The method outputs, and system displays, a score that uses and inclusive 0-4 scale that correlates to the UPDRS and MDS-UPDRS, or to a particular component of the movement disorder such as speed, amplitude or rhythm, but has greater resolution and lower variability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Great Lakes NeuroTechnologies Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph P. Giuffrida, Dustin A. Heldman, Thomas O. Mera
  • Patent number: 10966653
    Abstract: An allergen exposure system includes a mixing chamber, delimited by walls and distinct from the air inlet duct and from the exposure room in which the patients are situated. A mixing between a stream of allergen particles from an allergen injection device and a flow of air devoid of allergens which has passed through a filtration device, occurs through a phenomenon of microturbulence in this mixing chamber which forms a widening with respect to the air inlet duct and makes it possible to obtain a flow of air laden with allergen particles which is injected into the exposure room through at least one diffusion outlet so that it can be inhaled by the patients. This invention is of benefit to medical and pharmaceutical research in the field of allergy study.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ALYATEC
    Inventor: Gérard Santailler
  • Patent number: 10966654
    Abstract: A device (10) to be inserted in a woman's vagina to aid in measuring muscles operatively associated with the woman's vagina. The device (10) includes a motion detector (24) that is a gyroscope and that detects angular movement about at least one axis, and preferably detects angular movement about three mutually perpendicular axes. Preferably the motion detector (24) is a combination of a gyroscope and accelerometer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Analytica Limited
    Inventor: Peter Bartlett
  • Patent number: 10966655
    Abstract: A tissue hydration monitor and method includes a sensor module having a plurality of LEDs positioned to emit a plurality of different wavelengths of light toward the user's skin and a detector that detects light transmitted and reflected through the user's skin to generate signals corresponding to an intensity of detected light at each of the different wavelengths. A processor/controller module generates a baseline hydration level based on the received signals, calculates a relative hydration level, and generates an output indicative of relative hydration personalized to the user. The housing is secured against the user's skin by an adhesive patch or a strap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: HYROSTASIS, INC.
    Inventor: Debbie K. Chen
  • Patent number: 10966656
    Abstract: An electric conductive fiber structure includes an electric conductive resin containing electric conductive polymer(s), the electric conductive resin being filled in gaps between single fibers included in a fiber structure, the electric conductive fiber structure having 15% or more area ratio of the electric conductive resin present in an area of 15 to 30 ?m from a surface when a cross section in a thickness direction of the fiber structure is observed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignees: Toray Industries, Inc., Nagase ChemteX Corporation
    Inventors: Noriko Nagai, Keiji Takeda, Jun Kawakami, Hiroshi Nagata, Tatsuya Ohori
  • Patent number: 10966657
    Abstract: A sensor system includes a first sensor to detect environmental conditions of an environment in operational contact with a subject, a second sensor to detect physiological parameters of the subject in operational contact with an asset, and a control unit comprising one or more processors communicatively coupled with the first sensor and the second sensor. The processors receive a first signal from the first sensor indicative of the environmental conditions, and receive a second signal from the second sensor indicative of the physiological parameters of the subject, and determine a relation between the environmental conditions and the physiological parameters based on the first signal and the second signal. The processors determine a responsive action of the asset based on the first signal indicative of the environmental conditions of the environment or the second signal indicative of the physiological parameters of the subject in operational contact with the asset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventors: Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo, Richard St. Pierre, Bruce Courtney Amm, Aghogho Atemu Obi
  • Patent number: 10966658
    Abstract: A lifestyle service with data and routines storable in a memory of a wearable electronic device is discussed. The lifestyle service has at least a Sleep data routine and an Activity data routine. The lifestyle service can cooperate with an insight engine. The lifestyle service is aware of different types of information contained in one or more time synchronous applications. The system can compare tracked physical activity data with historical data in set increments in light of the information in the time synchronous applications and then communicate notifications to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Jacob Aaron Surbur, Heather Mehle Shapiro, Kevin Thomas Hill
  • Patent number: 10966659
    Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method using multiple complementary sensors for the monitoring and wireless communication of several respiration characteristics—that is badge-size, wearable on the outside of clothing, and non-invasive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Xtrava, Inc.
    Inventor: Sameh Sarhan
  • Patent number: 10966660
    Abstract: A sensor for a medical device including a plurality of sensor segments. Each of the plurality of sensor segments can include a layer of magnetically-permeable material and a layer of electrically-conductive material disposed on the layer of magnetically-permeable material. In an example, the layer of magnetically-permeable material can be arranged in a partially-annular shape. The sensor segments can include an electrical connection formation that extends transverse to the layers of magnetically-permeable material and electrically-conductive material. The electrical connection formation can be electrically coupled with the layer of electrically-conductive material. The plurality of sensor segments can be electrically coupled with each other through an electrical coupling of the respective layer of electrically-conductive material of each sensor segment with the electrical connection formation of another sensor segment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical International Holding S.à r.l.
    Inventors: Terry Sterrett, Allyn Jensrud
  • Patent number: 10966661
    Abstract: A datum rebuilding method is applied to a bio-sensor module equipped in a wearable electronic device with the datum rebuilding function. The datum rebuilding method includes continuously receiving a plurality of physical signals, identifying if one specific physical signal meets a predefined condition, and outputting a warning signal to show a reminder when the specific physical signal is identified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Pix Art Imaging Inc.
    Inventors: Chen-Han Tsai, Hsiu-Ling Yeh, Yung-Chang Lin
  • Patent number: 10966662
    Abstract: Physiological signal processing systems include a photoplethysmograph (PPG) sensor that is configured to generate a physiological waveform, and an inertial sensor that is configured to generate a motion signal. A physiological metric extractor is configured to extract a physiological metric from the physiological waveform that is generated by the PPG sensor. The physiological metric extractor includes an averager that has an impulse response that is responsive to the strength of the motion signal. Related methods are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Valencell, Inc.
    Inventor: Eric Douglas Romesburg
  • Patent number: 10966663
    Abstract: A method for detecting a vital sign of a subject (102) comprises: receiving (302) a reflected radio frequency signal from the subject (102), the reflected signal being based on a transmitted signal, which is Doppler-shifted due to mechanical movements corresponding to the heart rate and/or the respiratory rate; dividing (304) a baseband signal into a sequence of sliding windows (200), each sliding window (200) representing a time interval; estimating (306) a vital sign parameter in at least one sliding window (200); determining (308) whether a vital sign parameter may be reliably estimated in at least one sliding window (200); on condition that the vital sign parameter may not be reliably estimated in a sliding window (200), determining (310) a vital sign parameter of the sliding window (200) based on vital sign parameters estimated in a plurality of windows representing time intervals close to the time interval of the window (200).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: STICHTING IMEC NEDERLAND
    Inventor: Ilde Rosa Lorato
  • Patent number: 10966664
    Abstract: The invention is a type of electronic sphygmomanometer with dynamically calibrated blood pressure reference value, which is determined based on the objective condition of human blood pressure fluctuation influenced by various factors such as age, date and time of measurement, and establishes age/blood pressure reference value, date/blood pressure reference value and time/blood pressure reference. The value database, or through mathematical operations, obtains the real-time standard blood pressure reference value under the specific conditions of the subject's age, test date, and test time, and calibrates it as a benchmark for judging the abnormality state of the real-time blood pressure measurement value. This improves the ability of the sphygmomanometer in producing an accurate judgement of the subject's blood pressure, and reduces the margin of error for false positive tests or false negative tests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Inventor: Kayden Beibei Fu
  • Patent number: 10966665
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for calculating a biometric index using biometric information are disclosed. An apparatus for calculating a biometric index using biometric information is provided, the apparatus comprising: a transmission/reception unit for receiving biometric information collected by a user terminal or a biometric information collection apparatus; a storage unit for storing an index calculation formula for calculating a biometric index and a daily body index using the biometric information and daily body index; an extraction unit for extracting the stored biometric information and index calculation formula; and a calculation unit for calculating a biometric index and a daily body index using the received biometric information and the predetermined index calculation formula, wherein the biometric index includes one or more of an eating behavior index, an activity index, a sleep index and a heart rate variability index, and calculates the daily body index using the biometric index.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ONESOFTDIGM CO., LTD
    Inventor: Dae Ho Lee
  • Patent number: 10966666
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for probabilistically estimating an individual's sleep stage based on spectral analyses of pulse rate and motion data. In one implementation, the method may include receiving signals from sensors worn by the individual, the signals including a photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal and an accelerometer signal; dividing the PPG signal into segments; determining a beat interval associated with each segment; resampling the set of beat intervals to generate an interval signal; and generating signal features based on the interval signal and the accelerometer signal, including a spectrogram of the interval signal. The method may further include determining a sleep stage for the individual by comparing the signal features to a sleep stage classifier included in a learning library. The sleep stage classifier may include one or more functions defining a likelihood that the individual is in the sleep stage based on the signal features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: David Ben Shimol, Ali Shoeb
  • Patent number: 10966667
    Abstract: A method for predicting a future dental situation for a patient. Acquiring historical data including at least: previous time point and context parameter values. Acquiring at a time point all the data related to the current dental situation, including at least: the current time point, context parameter values at the current time point, statistical analysis of the historical data and the current data, so as to predict, at a future time point, at least one future dental situation for the current patient. Depending on the future dental situation, (re)evaluation of the benefit of an orthodontic treatment. Steps may include creating a three-dimensional digital reference model, acquiring at least one two-dimensional image, analysing each updated image and creation, searching, for each updated image, and collecting data relative to the updated reference model and relative to the orthodontic appliance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: DENTAL MONITORING
    Inventors: Philippe Salah, William Ayache, Guillaume Ghyselinck, Laurent Debraux, Louis Charles Roisin, Thomas Pellissard
  • Patent number: 10966668
    Abstract: A method of calculating body fluid and blood flow in a human or animal body using multi-frequencies alternating electrical currents, determining the tissues' multi-frequency impedance and reactance changes, calculating the body fluid, blood flow and physiological parameter. With the simultaneous measurements of body's or tissues' impedance and reactance from multi-frequencies, it is possible either to compensate for the frequency-dependencies or to find the dependencies' cross relationship, and thus measure body fluid and blood flow more accurately.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Msheaf Health Management Technologies Limited
    Inventor: Cheng Yi
  • Patent number: 10966669
    Abstract: The invention provides methods and kits for detecting, screening, quantifying or localizing the etiology for reduced or impaired cranial nerve function or conduction; localizing a central nervous system lesion; detecting, diagnosing or screening for increased intracranial pressure, pressure or disruption of central nervous system physiology as seen with concussion; or detecting, diagnosing, monitoring progression of or screening for a disease or condition featuring increased intracranial pressure or concussion by tracking eye movement of the subject. The invention also provides methods and kits useful for detecting, screening for or quantitating disconjugate gaze or strabismus, useful for diagnosing a disease characterized by disconjugate gaze or strabismus in a subject, useful for detecting, monitoring progression of or screening for a disease or condition characterized by disconjugate gaze or strabismus in a subject or useful for quantitating the extent of disconjugate gaze or strabismus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
    Inventor: Uzma Samadani
  • Patent number: 10966670
    Abstract: An imaging method, accesses a set of low-energy projection images and performs a low-energy reconstruction using the low-energy projection images. A synthesized intermediate low-energy projection image is generated. A high-energy reconstruction is performed using a set of high-energy projection images. A synthesized intermediate high-energy projection image is generated. A dual-energy reconstruction is performed using at least one low-energy projection image, the synthesized intermediate low-energy projection image, at least one high-energy projection image, and the synthesized intermediate high-energy projection image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Lawrence A. Ray, Richard A. Simon, Levon O. Vogelsang
  • Patent number: 10966671
    Abstract: Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to correct the measurement of water equivalent diameter in Computed Tomography (CT) imaging when patients are miscentered are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus includes a patient size characteristic calculator to calculate a set of patient size characteristics for a set of axial slices along a height of the patient. The apparatus further includes a patient size characteristic corrector module to calculate a set of correction factors for the set of patient size characteristics and apply the set of correction factors to the set of patient size characteristics. The apparatus further includes a computation manager to utilize a set of corrected patient size characteristics for the set of axial slices along the height of the patient to perform a CT scan on the patient by modulating an X-ray current to control a radiation dose applied to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: General Electric Company
    Inventors: Hugo Pasquier, Sylvie Jacquot-Ingles, Dominic Crotty, Alain Luciani, François Gardavaud
  • Patent number: 10966672
    Abstract: A sliding arrangement for mobile X-ray devices enabling functionality for tomosynthesis acquisitions on systems without this functionality. The sliding arrangement substitutes a conventional X-ray collimator mount for fixing an X-ray collimator onto the gantry of a mobile X-ray system, and which adds the supplementary mechanical functionality that is required to perform tomosynthesis acquisitions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: AGFA NV
    Inventors: Rainer Nebosis, Johannes Hoelzl, Vladimir Zemanek
  • Patent number: 10966673
    Abstract: Provided are an X-ray imaging apparatus, an X-ray detector, and an X-ray imaging system. The X-ray imaging apparatus includes: an X-ray radiation device configured to emit X-rays; a receptor into which a first X-ray detector configured to detect the emitted X-rays is inserted; an X-ray detector sensing interface configured to detect whether the first X-ray detector has been inserted into the receptor, acquire first identification information of the first X-ray detector inserted into the receptor, and generate first position information indicating that the first X-ray detector has been inserted into the receptor; an output interface configured to output information about the first X-ray detector; and a controller configured to control the output interface to output the first position information and the first identification information, wherein the first identification information is identification information set by a workstation of an X-ray imaging system including the X-ray imaging apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongseo Park, Sungnam Kim
  • Patent number: 10966674
    Abstract: A radiographic image display apparatus 3 included in a radiographic imaging system 100 includes a hardware processor that obtains an image data item on each of the frame images generated by the radiographic imaging apparatus 2, detects a situation of the subject at least at a time point in the dynamic imaging, associates the detected situation of the subject with the obtained image data items, and issues a specific output for notification that the subject is in a specific situation when the subject is in a state of a specific frame image fs, in a case where the display is caused to display the specific frame image fs, this specific frame image fs being taken when it is detected that the situation of the subject is the specific situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Sumiya Nagatsuka
  • Patent number: 10966675
    Abstract: A medical imaging apparatus is provided. The medical image apparatus includes an output unit; and a controller configured to control the output unit to display an image obtained by photographing an object and to display, over the image, a top indicator for setting a top limit for an area to be X-rayed and at least one guideline indicating a bottom limit for the area to be X-rayed according to the top indicator and the number of partial photographing operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung-hoon Kim, Si-won Park, Se-hui Kim, Do-hyeong Hwang, Sung-jin Park
  • Patent number: 10966676
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a computed tomography system, comprising: a table with a hole therein, wherein the table is configured to support a person lying face down thereon, with at least one of the person's breasts projecting through the hole; an X-ray source; an X-ray detector comprising a plurality of pixels; wherein the X-ray source is configured to rotate around the at least one of the person's breasts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SHENZHEN XPECTVISION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Peiyan Cao, Rui Ding
  • Patent number: 10966677
    Abstract: A radiography apparatus includes: a radiation detector having an imaging surface that detects radiation transmitted through an object and captures a projection image of the object; and a radiation source that has a plurality of radiation tubes which emit the radiation to the imaging surface at different irradiation angles and includes a plurality of units in which the plurality of radiation tubes are divided and accommodated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Masayoshi Matsuura, Kazuhiro Makino
  • Patent number: 10966678
    Abstract: A method includes moving a radiation source and a radiation detector along a scan path substantially transverse to a longitudinal axis of a patient. A beam of radiation is emitted from the radiation source. The beam of radiation is detected at the radiation detector. The detected beam is processed so as to form a first image of a first area of the patient along the scan path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Hologic, Inc.
    Inventor: Kevin Wilson
  • Patent number: 10966679
    Abstract: An apparatus and methodological framework are provided, named perfusion angiography, for the quantitative analysis and visualization of blood flow parameters from DSA images. The parameters, including cerebral blood flow (CBF) and cerebral blood volume (CBV), mean transit time (MTT), time-to-peak (TTP), and Tmax, are computed using a bolus tracking method based on the deconvolution of time-density curves on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Individual contrast concentration curves of overlapping vessels can be delineated with multivariate Gamma fitting. The extracted parameters are each transformed into parametric maps of the target that can be color coded with different colors to represent parameter values within a particular set range. Side by side parametric maps with corresponding DSA images allow expert evaluation and condition diagnosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: David S. Liebeskind, Fabien Scalzo
  • Patent number: 10966680
    Abstract: A method is for controlling operation of a medical technology device using a wireless, hand-held, mobile operator device including a touchscreen. The wireless, hand-held, mobile operator device including a touchscreen is also disclosed. The method includes using the mobile operator device for implementing a medical technology workflow including acquiring patient data of the at least one patient from an acquisition user interface; selecting, via a selection user interface, a medical technology protocol containing operating parameters to be carried out for the at least one patient; setting remote-controllably adjustable components of the medical technology device, according to the at least one patient positioned in the medical technology device and according to the medical technology protocol, using a settings user interface; and activating, with the at least one patient positioned and components set, the medical technology procedure in an activation user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Kagermeier, Gerben Ten Cate, Asa MacWilliams
  • Patent number: 10966681
    Abstract: Identification of pulmonary diseases involves accurate auscultation as well as elaborate and expensive pulmonary function tests. Also, there is a dependency on a reference signal from a flowmeter or need for labelled respiratory phases. The present disclosure provides extraction of frequency and time-frequency domain lung sound features such as spectral and spectrogram features respectively that enable classification of healthy and abnormal lung sounds without the dependencies of prior art. Furthermore extraction of wavelet and cepstral features improves accuracy of classification. The lung sound signals are pre-processed prior to feature extraction to eliminate heart sounds and reduce computational requirements while ensuring that information providing adequate discrimination between healthy and abnormal lung sounds is not lost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Tata Consultancy Services Limited
    Inventors: Shreyasi Datta, Anirban Dutta Choudhury, Parijat Deshpande, Sakyajit Bhattacharya, Arpan Pal
  • Patent number: 10966682
    Abstract: A capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer having a wide reception band is provided. The capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer includes an element including a first sub-element and a second sub-element each including a cell. The cell includes a vibrating membrane that includes one of two electrodes formed with a spacing therebetween and that is vibratably supported. The capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer further includes a first detection circuit, a second detection circuit, and a combining circuit that combines a signal from the first detection circuit and a signal from the second detection circuit. The first sub-element is electrically connected to the first detection circuit, and the second sub-element is electrically connected to the second detection circuit. The first detection circuit and the second detection circuit have different cut-off frequencies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Ayako Maruyama, Kazutoshi Torashima, Atsushi Kandori
  • Patent number: 10966683
    Abstract: A transducer assembly includes: a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) die including a plurality of piezoelectric elements; a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) die electrically coupled to the MEMS die by a first plurality of bumps and including at least one circuit for controlling the plurality of piezoelectric elements; and a package secured to the CMOS die by an adhesive layer and electrically connected to the CMOS die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: EXO IMAGING INC.
    Inventors: Janusz Bryzek, Sandeep Akkaraju, Yusuf Haque, Joe Adam
  • Patent number: 10966684
    Abstract: A medical imaging system comprises a three dimensional (3D) ultrasound system and a 3D holographic display system. The ultrasound system generates 3D ultrasound data that can be used to construct a 3D image of a patient. The display system displays the image in a 3D holographic form and comprises a touchless input interface that allows a user to control the display from within a sterile field while performing a medical procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V
    Inventor: Marco J. Daoura
  • Patent number: 10966685
    Abstract: A method of providing an ultrasound elastography image that includes inducing a shear wave by transmitting a first ultrasound signal pushing an object to the object, transmitting a second ultrasound signal tracing the shear wave to the object to receive a response signal to the second ultrasound signal from the object; acquiring an elastography image of the object, based on the response signal, and providing the elastography image of the object and transmission position information of the first ultrasound signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ji-young Park, Jun-ho Park, Ki-wan Choi, Hyoung-ki Lee
  • Patent number: 10966686
    Abstract: Provided is an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus and a method of operating the ultrasound diagnosis apparatus. The method includes: obtaining first Doppler data of a blood flow introduced into a cardiac ventricle of an object and second Doppler data of a blood flow discharged from the cardiac ventricle; setting a landmark corresponding to a predetermined motion of the cardiac ventricle in each of a first Doppler image generated based on the first Doppler data and a second Doppler image generated based on the second Doppler data; synchronizing the first Doppler image and the second Doppler image based on the set landmark; and displaying the first Doppler image and the second Doppler image that are synchronized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Sung-wook Park, Jin-yong Lee, Hye-sung Won, Mi-young Lee
  • Patent number: 10966687
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe, position detector detecting a probe position, ultrasonic image generation circuitry generating an ultrasonic image, storage circuitry storing volume data and a designation position in association with each other, slice image generation circuitry generating a slice image to the designation position based on the data and the designation position, a display displaying at least one of first display displaying the slice image and the ultrasonic image and second display displaying contents different from contents in the first display, control circuitry controlling switching from the first display to the second display in response to movement of the probe position into a range to the designation position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yoichi Ogasawara
  • Patent number: 10966688
    Abstract: A method for fusion of live ultrasound imagery with computed tomography (CT) scan images or magnetic resonance images, the method comprising steps of acquiring a series of CT scan images or magnetic resonance images, acquiring a series of ultrasound images, applying a manual registration process on a computing device to register each of the CT scan images or magnetic resonance images with corresponding ultrasound images, and displaying on a display associated with the computing device the live ultrasound imagery and corresponding CT scan images or magnetic resonance images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: Rational Surgical Solutions, LLC
    Inventor: Jonathan Fialkov
  • Patent number: 10966689
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for predicting an in vivo concentration of an analyte, including: estimating an in vivo intrinsic spectrum of the analyte; and predicting the in vivo concentration of the analyte by using a concentration predicting algorithm based on the estimated in vivo intrinsic spectrum and an in vivo spectrum obtained during a section in which the in vivo concentration of the analyte is not substantially changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seonmyeong Choi, Woochang Lee, June Young Lee