Patents Issued in June 24, 2021
  • Publication number: 20210186321
    Abstract: A system includes: a first movable stage which is movable with respect to an eye of a subject; a second movable stage mounted on the first movable stage, wherein the second movable stage is movable with respect to the first movable stage; a fixation target disposed on the second movable stage; and an optical system disposed in an optical path between the fixation target and the eye, wherein the optical system is configured for projecting the fixation target upon the eye to accommodate the eye. The optical system includes a Stokes cell in the optical path between the fixation target and the eye. The optical system non-telecentrically projects the fixation target upon the eye.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Richard J. Copland
  • Publication number: 20210186322
    Abstract: There is provided an ophthalmologic measurement apparatus for measuring a subject eye. The apparatus includes measurement means for objectively measuring eye refractive power of the subject eye, acquisition means for acquiring intraocular lens information relating to an intraocular lens inserted into the subject eye, and correction means for correcting a measurement result of the eye refractive power, based on the intraocular lens information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: NIDEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihiro TAKII, Masanori YATANI, Kazunari SHIMIZU, Tetsuya YAMAMOTO
  • Publication number: 20210186323
    Abstract: A system and method of assessing vision quality of an eye is presented, with a controller having a processor and tangible, non-transitory memory on which instructions are recorded. The controller is configured to selectively execute at least one machine learning model. Execution of the instructions by the processor causes the controller to: receive wavefront aberration data of the eye and express the wavefront aberration data as a collection of Zernike polynomials. The controller is configured to obtain a plurality of input factors based on the collection of Zernike polynomials. The plurality of input factors is fed into the at least one machine learning model, which is trained to analyze the plurality of input factors. The machine learning model generates at least one vision correction factor based in part on the plurality of input factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Ramesh Sarangapani, Mark VonTress
  • Publication number: 20210186324
    Abstract: Provided are a method, a device, or a storage medium having a program stored therein for easily determining a crystalline lens nucleus state. A gray scale anterior segment image taken by optical coherence tomography is obtained, and posterization of the anterior segment image is performed to obtain tone-changed images having 3 tones, 4 tones, and 5 tones. One, of a plurality of predetermined grades, corresponding to the crystalline lens nucleus state is determined based on a combination of states of observed images of the crystalline lens nucleus in the tone-changed images. The grades are set for classification according to whether or not an image of a crystalline lens nucleus is observed, whether the observed image is spot-shaped or band-shaped, or whether or not the entire image of the crystalline lens nucleus is observed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: CHUKYO MEDICAL CO., INC.
    Inventors: Kiyoyuki MAJIMA, Kazuo ICHIKAWA, Kei ICHIKAWA
  • Publication number: 20210186325
    Abstract: A system and method for a portable eye examination camera is described herein. The system and method may include: a light source disposed within said portable camera at a set distance away from an eye of a patient; a first lens within said portable camera for focusing the light from said light source onto a retina of the eye and providing a wide field retinal image; a second lens for receiving said retinal image and causing a magnification of said retinal image; and a digital camera within a mobile computing device for recording said retinal image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Satish Chander GUPTA
  • Publication number: 20210186326
    Abstract: Described herein are eye implants that can include a pressure-responsive material that can be capable of changing color in response to pressure exerted on it. Also described here are methods of implanting and using the eye implants described herein to monitor intraocular pressure in a subject. The pressure-responsive material can be used to diagnose and monitor human or animal subjects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Mark B. Sherwood, Peng Jiang, Aaron David Webel
  • Publication number: 20210186327
    Abstract: A bio sensor using electromagnetic waves according to an embodiment may comprise a resonator assembly, a power supply unit, and a processor. The resonator assembly may include at least one feeding line which is disposed along the outer edge of a feeding area and can feed electric power to the feeding area, and a pattern wire which is disposed along a pattern in the feeding area and can receive electric power from the feeding line through capacitive coupling. The power supply unit may supply electric power to the resonator assembly. While a frequency of the electric power is swept, the processor may acquire a parameter which is biometric data corresponding to a concentration of a target analyte existing around the resonator assembly and is related to a resonant frequency of the resonator assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)
    Inventor: Franklin Don Bien
  • Publication number: 20210186328
    Abstract: An integrated system for the monitoring and treating diabetes is provided, including an integrated receiver/hand-held medicament injection pen, including electronics, for use with a continuous glucose sensor. In some embodiments, the receiver is configured to receive continuous glucose sensor data, to calculate a medicament therapy (e.g., via the integrated system electronics) and to automatically set a bolus dose of the integrated hand-held medicament injection pen, whereby the user can manually inject the bolus dose of medicament into the host. In some embodiments, the integrated receiver and hand-held medicament injection pen are integrally formed, while in other embodiments they are detachably connected and communicated via mutually engaging electrical contacts and/or via wireless communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Mark C. Brister, Nelson Quintana, Antonio C. Llevares, John Michael Dobbles, Richard C. Yang, Michael Robert Mensinger
  • Publication number: 20210186329
    Abstract: A monitoring system a user activity sensor to determine patterns of activity based upon the user activity occurring over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Bao TRAN
  • Publication number: 20210186330
    Abstract: A method and system for assessment of cognitive function of an individual. The method includes having an individual execute a standardized cognitive task, followed by a brain perturbation which either excites or suppresses cognitive ability. The individual executes at least one further standardized cognitive task after the brain perturbation. Neuroimaging can be used concurrently while the individual is executing each of the tasks to obtain additional data to supplement the task scores. The post perturbation scores are compared against the pre-perturbation score to provide a standardized metric which can then be compared against individuals of the same gender and approximate age. These results can help predict and diagnose various brain diseases. A fitted helmet with integrated neuroimaging sensors, and with preset cutouts for receiving a TMS coil, facilitates positioning and orientation of the coil proximate the motor cortex and the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex for the above methods.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Peter Anthony HALL, Cassandra LOWE
  • Publication number: 20210186331
    Abstract: A shoe-type device and a method of controlling the shoe-type device are disclosed. The shoe-type device includes a vibrator configured to generate a vibration, a pressure sensor disposed under the vibrator and configured to measure a pressure, and a controller configured to control an intensity of the vibration to be generated by the vibrator based on the measured pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Changhyun ROH, Segon ROH, Youngbo SHIM
  • Publication number: 20210186332
    Abstract: A photoplethysmograph device includes a housing provided with a mounting hole; an optical device accommodated in the mounting hole; and a light-transmitting member including a first end face, a side face connected to the first end face, and a second end face away from the first end face and connected to the side face. The light-transmitting member is connected to the housing and blocks the mounting hole, and the first end face is disposed near the optical device; the side face includes a reflecting face configured to totally reflect light incident on the reflecting face from the first end face to the second end face so as to emit the light, or totally reflect light incident on the reflecting face from the second end face to the first end face so as to emit the light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Shien Chang Hou, Kai Li
  • Publication number: 20210186333
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a test device for body fluid analysis. The device according to the present invention comprises: a first assembly having a magnifying lens for magnifying and observing a target body fluid; a second assembly configured to be assembled to the first assembly and having a lens transmission hole for condensing light; and an observation sheet for receiving the target body fluid between the first assembly and the second assembly, wherein the observation sheet includes a body portion disposed inside the first assembly and the second assembly, and a handle portion extending from the body portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Ji Hoon KIM
  • Publication number: 20210186334
    Abstract: Hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging with a minimal area image sensor are disclosed. A system includes an emitter for emitting pulses of electromagnetic radiation and an image sensor comprising a pixel array for sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation, wherein the pixel array comprises active pixels and optical black pixels. The system includes a black clamp circuit providing offset control for data generated by the pixel array. The system is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm; electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 565 nm to about 585 nm; electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm; an excitation wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that causes a reagent to fluoresce; or a laser mapping pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Ethicon LLC
    Inventors: Joshua D. Talbert, Donald M. Wichern
  • Publication number: 20210186335
    Abstract: An apparatus for dental imaging comprises a light source for generating light, an optics system for focusing the light, and a probe head. The light source, the optics system and the probe head are arranged such that the light passes through the optics system, passes through the probe head, and exits the probe head. The optics system is configured such that, upon entering the probe head, an outermost chief ray of the light with respect to an optical axis of the optics system is divergent to the optical axis and an outermost marginal ray of the light with respect to the optical axis is parallel or divergent to the optical axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Yossef Atiya, Tal Verker, Nir Makmel
  • Publication number: 20210186336
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device (1) for detecting parameters of a user (3), provided with a wearable support (2) having a first surface (2a) configured for contacting a body surface of the user (3); the support (2) has a second surface (2b) opposed to the first surface (2a) and comprises a first temperature sensor (10) configured for emitting a signal representative of a temperature at the first surface (2a) of the support (2), and a second temperature sensor (11) configured for emitting a signal representative of a temperature at the second surface (2b) of the support (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Francesco BELLIFEMINE, Cinzia BELLIFEMINE, Andrea CERATI, Iolanda SCIBELLI
  • Publication number: 20210186337
    Abstract: An in-vivo temperature measurement device includes a plurality of thermal resistors, temperature sensors for measuring an epidermis temperature of a living body, and temperature sensors for measuring an upper surface temperature that are provided at both ends of the thermal resistors, respectively, a memory that stores an estimation model of the core temperature of the living body that takes into consideration a non-thermal equilibrium state of the living body, and thermal resistance values of the thermal resistors, and an arithmetic circuit that estimates, based on the plurality of temperatures measured by the temperature sensors and the temperature sensors, the core temperature of the living body using the estimation model and the thermal resistance values, and the thermal resistance values are different from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Daichi Matsunaga, Yujiro Tanaka, Michiko Seyama
  • Publication number: 20210186338
    Abstract: The present disclosure includes a handheld processing device including medical applications for minimally and noninvasive glucose measurements. In an embodiment, the device creates a patient specific calibration using a measurement protocol of minimally invasive measurements and noninvasive measurements, eventually creating a patient specific noninvasive glucometer. Additionally, embodiments of the present disclosure provide for the processing device to execute medical applications and non-medical applications.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Marcelo M. Lamego, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Jeroen Poeze, Cristiano Dalvi, Sean Merritt, Hung Vo, Gregory A. Olsen, Ferdyan Lesmana
  • Publication number: 20210186339
    Abstract: For particularly good communication even with difficult patients, a monitoring system for monitoring a patient, such as during a medical diagnostic or therapeutic procedure, is provided. The monitoring system includes a voice cloning device having a voice generator. The voice cloning device is configured to replace a natural voice of a person with a cloned synthetic voice different from the voice of the person. At least two synthetic voices may be selected. The monitoring system also includes a measuring unit configured to record at least one physiological parameter of the patient, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the at least one measured physiological parameter of the patient, and an actuation unit configured to actuate the voice cloning device such that a synthetic voice is selected or rejected depending on a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Marcus Pfister, Martin Berger
  • Publication number: 20210186340
    Abstract: A health monitoring device for detecting blood pressure having a blood pressure sensor including a first fiber Bragg grating (FBG) with a refractive index is configured to be placed in contact with a person's skin approximate to an artery or vein. A baseline sensor that includes a second fiber Bragg grating (FBG) also having a refractive index is configured to be placed in contact with a person's skin away from an artery or vein to provide a baseline refractive index. The device pulses light waves through the FBGs to provide a processor with reading of the refractive index from the FBGs. Based on the effective shifts of the Bragg wavelength due to axial strain on the FBGs, a blood pressure estimator estimates systolic and diastolic blood pressure based on a calibration curve comparing pressure against strain.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Manojeet Bhattacharya
  • Publication number: 20210186341
    Abstract: A person sensor system (1) includes a person sensor (2) to determine personal parameters of a person, a holding device (3) for holding the person sensor (2) on an article of clothing of the person in interaction with the person sensor (2) and a magnetic device (4) with a first magnetic device section (5) and with a second magnetic device section (6) for attracting each other by magnetic force. The first magnetic device section (5) is arranged at the person sensor (2) and the second magnetic device section (6) is arranged at the holding device (3). A magnetic field detection device (7) detects a magnetic field of the magnetic device (4). The person sensor system (1) is configured to set an operating state of the person sensor system (1) as a function of the magnetic field detected. A person monitoring system (28) includes the person sensor system (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Roelof BERG, Marke SPIESS, Jens LEMBKE
  • Publication number: 20210186342
    Abstract: An intelligent wearable device is disclosed. The intelligent wearable device is configured to monitor and obtain biological data associated with a user wearing the device and environmental data associated with an environment that the user is located in through the use of a plurality of sensors of the wearable device. Once the biological and environmental data are obtained, the intelligent wearable device may compare the data to a threshold value that is associated with the safety of the user. If the comparison indicates that the data is outside the threshold value, the intelligent wearable device may output a signal indicating that the user is experiencing an event. The intelligent wearable device may also generate feedback indicating an action to perform in response to the event. The intelligent wearable device may notify devices associated with other users, who may be able to assist the user experiencing the event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Cipher Skin
    Inventor: Phillip Bogdanovich
  • Publication number: 20210186343
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a wearable system wherein elements of the system, including various sensors adapted to detect biometric and other data and/or to deliver drugs, are positioned proximal to, on or in the ear canal of a person. In embodiments of the invention, elements of the system, including drug delivery devices, are positioned on or in the ear canal for extended periods of time. For example, an element of the system may be positioned on the tympanic membrane of a user and left there overnight, for multiple days, months, or years. Because of the position and longevity of the system elements in the ear canal, the present invention has many advantages over prior wearable biometric and drug delivery devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Rodney PERKINS, William FACTEAU, Brent EDWARDS, Paul RUCKER, Kulbir SANDHU, Cem SHAQUER, Lakshman RATHNAM
  • Publication number: 20210186344
    Abstract: The present invention relates generally to an apparatus and method for detecting diseases and, more, specifically, detecting respiratory diseases such as airborne transmitting diseases at the early stage. The present invention provides a solution in the form of a clinical AI Software and terminal gateway hardware. Terminal gateway with clinical AI software can detect diseases by collecting and analyzing data from multiple sensors and modules. The terminal gateway can offload healthcare professionals from over-work and misjudge due to long working hours. It also provides a better second-opinion for less-experienced professionals. The gateway terminal is used to detect respiratory diseases such as airborne transmitting diseases at the early stage to help offload the healthcare professional in the hospital and to provide an alert when the professionals are not available outside of the hospital.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Boston Research Corporation
    Inventors: Pai-chang yeh, Julian Gerald Dcruz
  • Publication number: 20210186345
    Abstract: The present technology relates to a measurement apparatus and a measurement method that realize reduction in power consumption while at the same time ensuring reduction in cost. Provided is a measurement apparatus that includes a light source, a light reception section, and a measurement section. The light source emits at least partially coherent light. The light reception section receives the light emitted from the light source by way of a measurement target and detects a signal proportional to the received light. The measurement section measures the number of oscillations included in the signal detected by the light reception section within a certain time period. For example, the present technology can be applied to a measurement apparatus measuring a blood flow of a human body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: ATSUSHI ITO, KAZUNARI YOSHIFUJI
  • Publication number: 20210186346
    Abstract: An information processing device includes a skin-region detecting unit, a measurement-region setting unit, a pulse-wave source signal extracting unit, a phase-coincidence-degree calculating unit, and a pulse-wave estimating unit. The skin-region detecting unit detects a skin region of a person in each of multiple frames in a predetermined time period. The measurement-region setting unit sets multiple measurement regions in the skin region. The pulse-wave source signal extracting unit extracts multiple pulse-wave source signals indicating a change in luminance from the multiple measurement regions. The phase-coincidence-degree calculating unit calculates multiple phase coincidence degrees each indicating a degree of phase coincidence between phases of corresponding base components constituting each of the multiple pulse-wave source signals.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
    Inventors: Yudai NAKAMURA, Masahiro NAITO
  • Publication number: 20210186347
    Abstract: There is provided an apparatus comprising a control unit and a method of operating the apparatus to determine a health status of an infant. The method comprises acquiring contextual information associated with the infant (302) and acquiring at least one heart rate variability signal from the infant (304). The at least one heart rate variability signal acquired from the infant is processed to determine a heart rate variability feature (306) and the determined heart rate variability feature is assigned to a class according to the acquired contextual information (308). The determined heart rate variability feature is compared to one or more corresponding heart rate variability features stored in the same class as the determined heart rate variability in a memory (310) and a health status of the infant is determined based on the comparison (312).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Louis Nicolas ATALLAH, Jan Valentin Wendelin Sebastian WERTH
  • Publication number: 20210186348
    Abstract: A method for electrophysiological assessment, including acquiring electrical signals from locations of a region of ablated tissue in a heart chamber, and deriving from the signals respective annotations, which are indicative of times within a heart cycle at which a conduction wave traversed the locations. The method includes identifying a first location, at a first distance from the region, where the electrical signals include a double-potential signal, having first and second annotations at different times within the heart cycle, and identifying, in proximity to the first location, a second location, at a second distance from the region, greater than the first distance, where the electrical signals have a third annotation. The method further includes selecting one of the first and second annotations that is closest to the third annotation as a valid annotation for the first location, and displaying the valid annotation on an electroanatomical map of the heart.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Vadim Gliner
  • Publication number: 20210186349
    Abstract: A method for electrophysiological assessment, including acquiring electrical signals from tissue at locations in a heart chamber and a computer processor automatically deriving from the electrical signals annotations indicative of times within a heart cycle at which a conduction wave traversed the locations. The method includes receiving an input from a processor user indicating, for a first location in the tissue where the electrical signals include a double-potential signal, a first annotation as a valid annotation. The processor automatically identifies second locations, within a predefined distance from the first location, where the electrical signals include double-potential signals, each having two respective annotations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Vadim Gliner
  • Publication number: 20210186350
    Abstract: A sensor on an earpiece is used to attempt to detect a signal corresponding to a heartbeat. If a heartbeat is detected, it can be determined that the earpiece is being worn by a user. The sensor may be an acoustic transducer on a surface of the earpiece that is located within the wearer's ear canal, while the earpiece is being worn normally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Cirrus Logic International Semiconductor Ltd.
    Inventor: John P. LESSO
  • Publication number: 20210186351
    Abstract: Medical apparatus includes a probe configured for insertion into a chamber of a heart of a patient and including one or more intracardiac electrodes. Interface circuitry acquires intracardiac electrogram signals from the intracardiac electrodes and electrocardiogram (ECG) signals from body-surface electrodes that are fixed to a body surface of the patient. A processor detects, in each of the heartbeats in the sequence, a P wave in the acquired ECG signals and identifies one or more of the heartbeats in the sequence as ectopic beats responsively to a morphology of the detected P wave in the heartbeats. The processor extracts electrophysiological parameters from the intracardiac electrogram signals acquired during the sequence of the heartbeats and generates a map of the extracted electrophysiological parameters while excluding from the map the intracardiac electrogram signals that were received during the ectopic beats.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Assaf Govari
  • Publication number: 20210186352
    Abstract: A method is used to operate an MR system having at least one MR body coil and a control device connected to the at least one MR body coil. At least one radiometer is used to measure a body temperature of a body region, which body region can be illuminated by the respective radiometer, of a patient to be examined by the MR system. The measured body temperature is compared with a limit temperature, and an MR transmit power directed at the patient is brought closer to the limit temperature on the basis of a result of the comparison. The radiometer operates, in particular, in a frequency band that differs from the MR band. An MR body coil for performing the method has at least one radiometer antenna and an amplifier connected downstream of the radiometer antenna. The MR body coil can also have an input blocking filter connected downstream of the radiometer antenna and designed to block the MR band.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Stephan Biber
  • Publication number: 20210186353
    Abstract: This invention relates to a system that adaptively compensates for subject motion in real-time in an imaging system. An object orientation marker (30), preferably a retro-grate reflector (RGR), is placed on the head or other body organ of interest of a patient (P) during a scan, such as an MRI scan. The marker (30) makes it possible to measure the six degrees of freedom (x, y, and z-translations, and pitch, yaw, and roll), or “pose”, required to track motion of the organ of interest. A detector, preferably a camera (40), observes the marker (30) and continuously extracts its pose. The pose from the camera (40) is sent to the scanner (120) via an RGR processing computer (50) and a scanner control and processing computer (100), allowing for continuous correction of scan planes and position (in real-time) for motion of the patient (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Michael Ernst, Thomas Edmund Prieto, Brian Stewart Randall Armstrong
  • Publication number: 20210186354
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for acquiring flow encoded data from a subject using a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. The method includes acquiring flow encoded (FE) data with alternating encoding polarities and along two of three orthogonal directions through the subject over at least two cycles of the flow within the subject; and separating the FE data into directional FE datasets using a temporal filter that separates the FE data based on temporal modulation of the FE directions caused by the alternating encoding polarities extending over the at least two cycles of the flow within the subject that shift the Fourier spectrum of velocity waveforms corresponding to the FE data. The method also includes using the directional FE datasets to generate an image of the subject showing flow within the subject caused by the at least two cycles of flow within the subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Peng Hu, Da Wang
  • Publication number: 20210186355
    Abstract: A system for registering a coordinate system associated with a model of an object with a reference-coordinate-system, the object includes at least one marker, the system includes a portable-unit, a tracking-system and a processor. The portable unit includes and display and an optical-detection-assembly for acquiring at least one representation of the marker. The tracking-system tracks the position-and-orientation of the portable-unit in the reference-coordinate-system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Rani Ben-Yishai, Lior Barak
  • Publication number: 20210186356
    Abstract: A method of non-invasive detection of an analyte includes generating a transmit signal having at least two frequencies each of which is a radio or microwave frequency range of the electromagnetic spectrum, and transmitting the transmit signal into a target containing at least one analyte of interest using at least one transmit antenna/element. At least one receive antenna/element is used to detect response that results from transmitting the transmit signal by the at least one transmit antenna/element into the target containing the at least one analyte of interest. The at least one transmit antenna/element and the at least one receive antenna/element are less than 95% coupled to one another, or less than 90% coupled to one another, or less than 85% coupled to one another, or less than 75% coupled to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Phillip BOSUA
  • Publication number: 20210186357
    Abstract: A non-invasive analyte sensor device that includes a sensor housing, and a decoupled antenna/detector array having at least one transmit antenna/element and at least one receive antenna/element. The sensor housing has a maximum length dimension no greater than 50 mm, a maximum width dimension no greater than 50 mm, a maximum thickness dimension no greater than 25 mm, and a total interior volume of no greater than about 62.5 cm3. In addition, the at least one transmit antenna/element and the at least one receive antenna/element have a maximum spacing therebetween that does not exceed 50 mm and a minimum spacing therebetween that is at least 1.0 mm, and the at least one transmit antenna/element and the at least one receive antenna/element are less than 95% coupled to one another, or less than 90% coupled to one another, or less than 85% coupled to one another, or less than 75% coupled to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Phillip BOSUA, Ronald ERICKSON
  • Publication number: 20210186358
    Abstract: The bioelectrical impedance measurement device mainly includes a portable casing, a control member inside the portable casing, and an electrode assembly joined to the portable casing and electrically connected to the control member. The control member includes current generation element, a current collection and processing element, and a current protection element. The electrode assembly includes a left-hand contact and a right-hand contact, both configured on the portable casing. The electrode assembly further includes a left-foot contact, and a right-foot contact, both extended from the portable casing. The left-hand contact, right-hand contact, left-foot contact, and right-foot contact are respectively connected to a user's left hand, right hand, left foot, and right foot. The current generation element generates an electrical current, which enters the user's body through the limbs and then collected to calculate various bioelectrical impedances and to determine a required biological information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Chi-Yao Liao, Chun-Feng Huang
  • Publication number: 20210186359
    Abstract: Electrode array for monitoring of physiological parameters and devices including or utilizing same, the electrode array including an active electrode configured to provide an electrical signal and at least two inactive electrodes configured to collect the electrical signal transferred from the active electrode, wherein each of the at least two inactive electrodes are positioned at a different predetermined distance from the active electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Applicant: Medasense Biometrics Ltd.
    Inventors: Galit Zuckerman-Stark, Nir Ben-Israel, Noam Racheli, Aviad Yeshaya, Aviem Amossi
  • Publication number: 20210186360
    Abstract: Smart scale systems with body imaging and associated devices and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a user device may acquire biometric information generated from a network-accessible scale and image information from an imaging device. Received biometric information and media information associated with a user may be associated with a timestamp indicative of a time that the information was captured. A series of captured biometric information and media information for the user may be chronologically ordered according to the timestamps, which may allow for generation a video or interactive dashboard showing a time-lapsed display of the biometric information and media information of the user during a body transformation journey.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Dongsheng Song, Shiwen Niu
  • Publication number: 20210186361
    Abstract: A system for extending the visual capabilities and working channel of a bronchoscope including a probe having optic and/or tracking capabilities at a distal tip thereof and capable of being advanced through the working channel of a standard bronchoscope. The probe also includes a working channel through which various diagnostic and treatment tools may be advanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Benny Greenburg, Oded Zur, Raphael Meloul
  • Publication number: 20210186362
    Abstract: A medical probe includes a tubular distal end section, which is configured to be inserted into a cavity of a patient, and includes (a) a visually guiding object disposed over a perimeter of the distal end section, and (b) a magnetic field sensor including two sensor coils aligned non-parallel with each other, the sensor attached to the distal end section, and having:(i) a first axis of symmetry, of one of the coils, which is aligned perpendicular to a central longitudinal axis of the distal end section, and (ii) a second axis of symmetry, of the remaining coil, which is aligned perpendicular to the central longitudinal axis of the distal end section and not parallel to the first axis of symmetry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Christopher Thomas Beeckler, Vadim Gliner
  • Publication number: 20210186363
    Abstract: A medical apparatus includes a probe configured for insertion into a body of a patient. The probe includes electrodes configured to contact tissue within the body. The apparatus further includes a display screen, a position-tracking system configured to acquire position coordinates of the electrodes, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire electrophysiological signals from a group of the electrodes in a sequence of time intervals, extract electrophysiological parameters from the signals, and for each time interval, compute a measure of consistency of the parameters extracted from the signals. The processor is further configured to render to the display screen a three-dimensional map of the tissue while superimposing on the map a visual indication of the extracted parameters for which the measure of consistency satisfied a consistency criterion, and automatically discarding from the map the parameters for which the measure of consistency did not satisfy the criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Vadim Gliner, Alexander Salevich, Yair Palti
  • Publication number: 20210186364
    Abstract: A magnetometer-based metal detection device and methods of use are described. The device includes a proximal portion, a central body and a distal portion, and at least one magnetometer positioned within or on the distal portion. The at least one magnetometer includes at least one sensor capable of sensing a magnetic field in three orthogonal axes. Also described is a method of calibrating the device to achieve rotational invariance, and a method of determining a directionality or directional line along which a target metal object lies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Samuel Alex Weprin, John Noel, Daniel D. Eun
  • Publication number: 20210186365
    Abstract: A first medical device includes an elongate member having a lumen extending longitudinally therethrough from a proximal end to a distal end. A second medical device includes a needle advanceable through the lumen from the proximal end towards the distal end. A capacitor is configured so that the capacitance of the capacitor is a measure of a longitudinal position of the needle with respect to the elongate member. A capacitance sensor is configured to sense the capacitance of the capacitor as the needle is advanced through the lumen. A processor is in communication with the capacitance sensor. An output device is in communication with the processor and is configured to generate an output indicative of the longitudinal position of the needle with respect to the elongate member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Steven Kinio, Gareth Davies
  • Publication number: 20210186366
    Abstract: A method includes, in a medical procedure carried out during a time interval including at least first and second time periods, receiving, for the first time period, a first electrical signal indicative of at least a first position and a first orientation of a hand-held device directing energy to one or more volumetric portions of an organ. A second electrical signal indicative of at least a second position and a second orientation of the hand-held device is received for the second time period. Based on the first and second electrical signals, a cumulative energy applied to at least one of the one or more volumetric portions is estimated. The estimated cumulative energy, of at least one of the one or more volumetric portions, is overlaid on an anatomical image of the organ.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Assaf Govari
  • Publication number: 20210186367
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a system for detection of volatile organic compounds (VOC) in exhaled breath for health monitoring. It can be used for screening, diagnosis, monitoring onset and relapse of diseases. Certain volatile compounds, in exhaled breath of a person, which are the markers of the disease under consideration, will be analysed by the sensor array. The presence and concentration of these markers will be determined by a sensor array specific for the set of markers for the disease. Depending on the presence or absence and concentration levels of these VOCs health status of a person can be analysed. The present invention also relates to a device for monitoring health conditions of an individual and screening for presence or relapse of diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Jilma Peruvangat
  • Publication number: 20210186368
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of managing risk, of a subject, of suffering an adverse condition relating to a physiological system of the subject. The method includes a. providing a wearable acoustic sensor, b. providing a data processor, and c. causing the processor to i. monitor the output from the sensor, ii. apply a predictive numerical model to generate a prediction, iii. compare the prediction with the sensor output, and iv. determine a response on the basis of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Katherine KAWECKI, Christian REEKS
  • Publication number: 20210186369
    Abstract: A breath detection device and method thereof are provided. The system includes a transmitter, a receiver, a processor and a memory. The transmitter transmits a signal, and the receiver receives the signal from a multipath channel being impacted by breathing of a living being. The processor is configured to: extract CSI within a first time interval for the multipath channel from the at least one wireless signal; calculate one or more breathing rates based on the CSI within the first time interval; delete one or more breathing rates exceeding a predetermined range from the one or more breath breathing rates; group the remaining breathing rates to obtain one or more breathing rate groups; select the breathing rate group having largest quantity; and take the breathing rate of the selected breathing rate group as an estimated breathing rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: YA-PING WEI, HOREN CHEN
  • Publication number: 20210186370
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for determining a severity of a respiratory disease of a patient. The patient is instructed by a system to recite a phrase. The system receives the phrase recited by the patient as acoustic signal and analyzes the acoustic signal with respect to a severity of a respiratory disease. The result of the analysis is provided, which is indicative for the severity of the respiratory disease of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Kiran Hamilton J. DELLIMORE, Privender Kaur SAINI