Patents Issued in July 20, 2021
  • Patent number: 11064925
    Abstract: Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for evaluating jaw movement characteristics of a user, for example, in a plurality of distinct jaw motion directions. In an example implementation, a jaw exercise system as discussed herein is configured to facilitate the exercise and/or quantification of a user's jaw strength in at least one of six distinct directions. As described herein, the jaw exercise system may comprise a frame assembly to which a user may selectively attach one of a plurality of an interchangeable functional assemblies, each configured to facilitate the evaluation of the jaw movement characteristics of a user in six jaw movement directions. The jaw exercise system comprises one or more of a progressive resistance attachment assembly, a passive motion attachment assembly, a force characterization attachment assembly, and a hyoid motion attachment assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Kinesio Designs L.L.C.
    Inventor: Kim Thorsen Davis
  • Patent number: 11064926
    Abstract: Systems and methods rely on feedback from an active medical device or devices (e.g., neurostimulator coupled to sensing and stimulation elements such as electrodes) to assess the effectiveness of a patient's drug regimen. Such reliance may include analyzing characteristics in physiological data acquired by the medical device(s), for example, in the form of responses evoked from the patient by electrical stimulation waveforms. Systems and methods further involved adjusting one or more parameters according to which a combination therapy consisting of at least a drug regimen and an electrical stimulation therapy are delivered to a patient, in an effort to optimize the therapeutic effect of the combination. The adjustments may be automatically by one or more implanted or external hosts working together or alone, and/or with the input of a physician.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NeuroPace, Inc.
    Inventors: Tara L. Crowder, Brett M. Wingeier, Martha J. Morrell, Felice Sun, Thomas Tcheng
  • Patent number: 11064927
    Abstract: A system for providing a standard electrocardiogram (ECG) signal for a human body using contactless ECG sensors for outputting to exiting medical equipment or for storage or viewing on a remote device. The system comprises a digital processing module (DPM) adapted to connect to an array of contactless ECG sensors provided in a fabric or the like. A selection mechanism is embedded into the DPM which allows the DPM to identify body parts using the ECG signals of the different ECG sensors and select for each body part the best sensor lead. The DPM may then produce the standard ECG signal using the selected ECG signals for the different body parts detected. The system is adapted to continuously re-examine the selection to ensure that the best leads are selected for a given body part following a movement of the body part, thereby, allowing for continuous and un-interrupted ECG monitoring of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: RR Sequences Inc.
    Inventors: Deepak Bobby Jain, Joshua Weeks, David Nadezhdin, Jean-Francois Asselin
  • Patent number: 11064928
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate wearable patches having rigid inserts. The rigid insert is positioned adjacent to one or more connectors, such as studs for receiving sockets to distribute the force transferred to a patient when reconnecting a socket to the stud. The rigid insert may be sized to maintain flexibility in areas of the wearable patch. An optional adhesive layer may be applied to the wearable patch adjacent the rigid insert to reduce the likelihood of delamination of the wearable patch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: PREVENTICE SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Kronstedt, Andrew Arroyo, Charles Rector
  • Patent number: 11064929
    Abstract: The instant disclosure relates generally to a tip electrode for delivering irrigant to a distal portion of the tip electrode and irrigated catheter tips incorporating such a tip electrode. The distal portion of the tip electrode can have additional fluid ports on the distal edge of the tip to provide additional fluid flow to that region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer D. Pai, Andrew R. Oliverius, Troy T. Tegg
  • Patent number: 11064930
    Abstract: A system and methods for automatically adjusting view angle when performing cardiac mapping and ablation are described herein. A three-dimensional (3D) map of a cardiac structure of a patient and a relative location (e.g., position and orientation) of a catheter within the cardiac structure may be displayed on a visual display device. According to an example procedure, the position and orientation of the tip of the catheter within the cardiac structure, and the current ablation target may be detected. A desired viewing angle of the ablation target may be known, determined, provided and/or learned through training sessions with the operator. The viewing angle of the 3D map of the cardiac structure may be automatically adjusted to correspond to the desired viewing angle using the known locations of the tip of the catheter and ablation target. Other details and procedures may be implemented, as described herein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Gil Zigelman, Maxim Galkin, Ziyad Zeidan, Hamutal Rinat Yadan, Ehud Alkabetz, Ido Ilan
  • Patent number: 11064931
    Abstract: A device includes an EMG processing application operable with a processing module to receive an output signal from EMG testing, wherein the output signal represents electrical activity of at least one muscle. The EMG processing application is operable to process the output signal to detect at least one type of waveform of a plurality of types of waveforms from the output signal and display the detected at least one type of waveform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Tomasz Andrzej Kosierkiewicz
  • Patent number: 11064932
    Abstract: A portable medical device having an intravenous line flow sensor integrated into a cable. The portable medical device may be a defibrillator having an ECG or electrode cable couple to ECG or electrode leads. The flow sensor may be integrated into the ECG or electrode cable. The portable medical device uses the flow sensor to capture and store information about fluids delivered to a patient being treated with the portable medical device. The information may include total volume provided, flow rate, and the like. The information may then be used to evaluate the treatment provided to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Physio-Control, Inc.
    Inventors: Robert G. Walker, Barry D. Curtin
  • Patent number: 11064933
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method of normalizing a tachycardia electrocardiogram (ECG) on the basis of P-wave and T-wave data interpolation. The method of normalizing a tachycardia ECG on the basis of P-wave and T-wave data interpolation includes (a) receiving a first ECG signal from a subject, (b) detecting P-wave and T-wave peaks in the received first ECG signal, (c) segmenting the received first ECG signal into one-cycle ECG signals on the basis of the detected P-wave and T-wave peaks, (d) segmenting the one-cycle ECG signals into a P-wave period, a QRS complex period, and a T-wave period, and (e) normalizing the segmented P-wave and T-wave periods through data interpolation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation, Chosun University
    Inventors: Sung Bum Pan, Gyu Ho Choi
  • Patent number: 11064934
    Abstract: A surgical access system including a tissue distraction assembly and a tissue refraction assembly, both of which may be equipped with one or more electrodes for use in detecting the existence of (and optionally the distance and/or direction to) neural structures before, during, and after the establishment of an operative corridor to a surgical target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: NuVasive, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick Miles, Scot Martinelli, Eric Finley
  • Patent number: 11064935
    Abstract: A test device is used to test photosensitivity of a skin. The test device is provided with an irradiation unit including a plurality of light irradiation units arranged in a first direction. The plurality of light irradiation units output, in a second direction intersecting the first direction, irradiation light beams that mutually differ at least in one of wavelength characteristics and intensity. The irradiation unit is configured such that intensities of the irradiation light beams output from the plurality of light irradiation units are progressively smaller in the first direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignees: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION NAGOYA UNIVERSITY, NIKKISO CO., LTD
    Inventors: Michihiro Kono, Masashi Akiyama, Yasushi Ogawa, Hideki Asano, Suguru Mishina, Satoru Matsuzawa
  • Patent number: 11064936
    Abstract: A system and method is used to monitor, control, and/or provide feedback relative to one or more factors related to a patient's body, such as a shoulder, pursuant to a treatment process. The system monitors, controls, and/or provides feedback relative to shoulder factors including shoulder motion, shoulder muscle contraction, and external pressure on the shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Active4D, Inc.
    Inventors: Darryl D'Lima, Heinz Hoenecke, David G. Matsuura
  • Patent number: 11064937
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method of conducting a sleep analysis by collecting physiologic and kinetic data from a subject, preferably via a wireless in-home data acquisition system, while the subject attempts to sleep at home. The sleep analysis, including clinical and research sleep studies and cardiorespiratory studies, can be used in the diagnosis of sleeping disorders and other diseases or conditions with sleep signatures, such as Parkinson's, epilepsy, chronic heart failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, or other neurological, cardiac, pulmonary, or muscular disorders. The method of the present invention can also be used to determine if environmental factors at the subject's home are preventing restorative sleep.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Cleveland Medical Devices Inc.
    Inventors: Hani Kayyali, Craig A. Frederick, Christian Martin, Robert N. Schmidt, Brian Kolkowski
  • Patent number: 11064938
    Abstract: Provided are systems, methods, and devices for providing mediation of a traumatic brain injury. Systems may include an interface, processing devices, and a controller. The interface is configured to obtain measurements from a brain of a user with a traumatic brain injury. A first processing device is configured to generate multiple brain state parameters characterizing one or more features of a brain state of the user. A second processing device is configured to generate models of the brain of the user based on the plurality of brain state parameters and the plurality of measurements, and determine, using the models and training data comprising one or more mediation data points, a mediation procedure for reducing one or more symptoms of the traumatic brain injury. The mediation procedure is provided to one or more entities, and one or more control signals are generated by the controller based on the mediation procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: StimScience Inc.
    Inventor: Anantha K. Pradeep
  • Patent number: 11064939
    Abstract: A fluid replacement method including: determining the amount of urine expelled by a patient; infusing via a pump fluid from a first fluid source into a patient; determining an amount of fluid infused into the patient from the first fluid source; adjusting the operating of the pump based on the determined amount of urine expelled and the amount of fluid infused into the patient; setting a desired fluid balance for the patient; setting an amount of at least one additional fluid delivered to the patient, wherein the at least one additional fluid is not pumped into the patient; calculating an actual fluid balance based on the determined urine output, the determined amount of fluid infused into the patient from the first fluid source, and the set amount of said at least one additional fluid delivered to the patient; and automatically controlling the pump based on the actual fluid balance and the set desired fluid balance so the actual fluid balance conforms to the desired fluid balance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Reprieve Cardiovascular, Inc.
    Inventors: J. Ricardo Da Silva, Wieslaw Gronek, Andrew V. Halpert, Robert I. Rudko, Mark Tauscher
  • Patent number: 11064940
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods for detecting pain in a subject, such as a mammal (e.g., a human), using brain activity, e.g., as determined by electroencephalography. The methods are useful for treating or reducing the likelihood of pain in a subject by determining power amplitude from the power spectral density of the waveforms and, e.g., administering a therapeutic agent to the subject. The methods disclosed herein may also be utilized to screen for a therapeutic agent that decreases power amplitude using a non-human animal subject. The methods also feature the stimulation of thalamic reticular nucleus of a subject to treat or reduce pain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Rhode Island Hospital
    Inventor: Carl Saab
  • Patent number: 11064941
    Abstract: An information processing apparatus includes a calculation unit, a designing unit, and a presentation unit. The calculation unit calculates autonomic activity of a participant, using biometric information measured by a measuring device that measures biometric information of the participant belonging to a group place. The designing unit designs a progress plan of communication at the group place in a design aspect corresponding to the calculated activity. The presentation unit presents the designed progress plan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Business Innovation Corp.
    Inventors: Akinori Komura, Katsunori Kawano, Minoru Mitsui
  • Patent number: 11064942
    Abstract: Embodiments include methods and systems for automated eating detection. Systems comprise a continuous glucose monitor (CGM), accelerometer, and processing unit. During a first time period, the processing unit receives glucose readings and a first set of acceleration readings. The processing unit identifies an eating episode if the glucose readings satisfy one or more criteria. Using the identified eating episode and first set of acceleration readings, the processing unit generates an individual model that identifies eating episodes using acceleration readings without using glucose readings. During a second time period, a processing unit uses the individual model and a second set of acceleration readings to identify a second eating episode. Some embodiments may use additional sensor types (for example, PPG or heart rate) to identify eating episodes in the first or second time period, generate the individual model, or any combination thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: OPTUM LABS, LLC
    Inventors: Steven Catani, Jed Ludlow, Tyler Stigen, Joseph A. Roxas, Nino Paul D. Batanay
  • Patent number: 11064943
    Abstract: A method and apparatus to determine body composition of a subject is disclosed. Physical characteristics of a subject and water in a pool is determined. A body of the subject is completely submerged in the pool of water such that a head of the subject is just below a surface of the water in the pool. The subject completely exhales air into an air measuring device as the body of the subject is submerged just below the surface of the water. The body composition is then determined and displayed based on the determined subject characteristics, water characteristics and the amount of air exhaled into the air measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Sterling L Cannon
  • Patent number: 11064944
    Abstract: A mobile healthcare device and method of operating the same are provided. The method includes setting a mode of the mobile healthcare device to a measurement mode, displaying a screen for guiding a user to maintain a predetermined position during the measurement mode, and, in response to a predetermined amount of time passing from a time at which the screen begins to be displayed, obtaining state information of the user based on bio information of the user, the bio information being received from a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Kunsun Eom, Kak Namkoong, Yeolho Lee, Myounghoon Jung, Seongho Cho
  • Patent number: 11064945
    Abstract: Devices, methods, computer-readable media, and systems for determining an identity of a food are disclosed. For example, a method may receive at least one property of at least one component in a sample of a food from an intra-oral device including a spectrometer, the at least one property obtained via the spectrometer, compares the at least one property to a plurality of food signatures, and determines the identity of the food based upon the comparing. In another example, a system may include an intra-oral device and a wireless device. The intra-oral device may include a spectrometer for measuring at least one property of at least one component in a sample of a food. The wireless device may include a processor for receiving the at least one property, comparing the at least one property to a plurality of food signatures, and determining the identity of the food based upon the comparing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: AT&T Intellectual Property I, L.P.
    Inventors: Juliette Zerick, Eugene Rascle, William Cottrill
  • Patent number: 11064946
    Abstract: Skin-mounted or epidermal devices and methods for monitoring biofluids are disclosed. The devices comprise a functional substrate that is mechanically and/or thermally matched to skin to provide durable adhesion for long-term wear. The functional substrates allow for the microfluidic transport of biofluids from the skin to one or more sensors that measure and/or detect biological parameters, such as rate of biofluid production, biofluid volume, and biomarker concentration. Sensors within the devices may be mechanical, electrical or chemical, with colorimetric indicators being observable by the naked eye or with a portable electronic device (e.g., a smartphone). By monitoring changes in an individual's health state over time, the disclosed devices may provide early indications of abnormal conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
    Inventors: John A. Rogers, Ahyeon Koh, Daeshik Kang, YuHao Liu, Xian Huang
  • Patent number: 11064947
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring biometric information is provided. The apparatus may include: a main body configured to be worn on an object to be examined. The main body may include a contact pressure sensor configured to measure a contact pressure of the object while a hand shape is changing; a pulse wave sensor configured to measure a pulse wave signal of the object; and a processor configured to measure biometric information on the basis of the measured contact pressure and pulse wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jae Min Kang, Yong Joo Kwon, Seung Woo Noh, Sang Yun Park
  • Patent number: 11064948
    Abstract: Provided in various example embodiments a mobile device integrated in a body that is sized and shaped to be held in a palm of a hand of a user, the mobile device configured to take a plurality of physiological measurements of a patient, including electrocardiographic measurements, blood oxygen saturation level measurements, pulse rate measurements, body temperature measurements, blood pressure measurements when connected with a removable inflatable cuff, and blood glucose measurements when connected with an elongated test strip, and to display and wirelessly communicate data corresponding to said physiological measurements. The mobile device may comprise some or all of the features of an Internet enabled smartphone. The mobile device may be provided with selectable modes of operation for use with one or more patients. Wireless peripherals may provide additional physiological data to the device. Systems are provided for secure communication and storage of data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Steven R. Peabody
  • Patent number: 11064949
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus to remove a noise from an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor signal are provided. A noise removing method includes: receiving a sensor signal collected by an electrocardiography (ECG) sensor; extracting an ECG estimation signal from the sensor signal based on a peak value of the sensor signal; determining a first comparison value between the ECG estimation signal and a first reference signal indicating an average form of ECG signals; and classifying the ECG estimation signal as one of an ECG signal and a noise by comparing the first comparison value to a first threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chisung Bae, Jinhyun Yun, Sang Joon Kim
  • Patent number: 11064950
    Abstract: A heart monitoring device comprises an enclosure with various sensors and components. The enclosure has a first groove on a top surface, sized to fit a phalange of a subject's right hand. When the device is held with the corresponding phalange keyed into the first groove, the device is in a proper orientation for recording the subject's heart activity. The device includes a plurality of electrodes configured to create one or more electrical circuits across a human heart. The electrodes include a right thumb electrode placed on a side of the enclosure for coupling to the subject's right thumb and an upper chest electrode and a lower chest electrode placed on a bottom surface of the enclosure for coupling to the subject's chest. The heart monitoring device also has a plurality of pulse oximeters placed in the first groove and configured to measure blood oxygen levels of the corresponding phalange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Bluue Co.
    Inventor: David Michael Deriso
  • Patent number: 11064951
    Abstract: Infusion devices and related medical devices, patient data management systems, and methods are provided for monitoring a physiological condition of a patient. An exemplary database system includes a database to maintain data pertaining to a plurality of entities and a computing device coupled to the database to identify relationships between different entities of the plurality of entities, generate metadata defining a graph structure maintaining the relationships between the different entities of the plurality of entities for a plurality of different logical layers, and store the metadata in the database.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Yuxiang Zhong, Pratik Agrawal, Huzefa F. Neemuchwala, Chantal M. McMahon, John Hoebing
  • Patent number: 11064952
    Abstract: An external medical device is provided. The device can include monitoring circuitry configured to sense physiological information of a patient and a controller with one or more input components. The controller can be configured to: detect one or more patient events based, at least in part, on the physiological information; notify the patient of the detection of the one or more patient events; and receive a patient response to the notification. The patient response can include a response activity identifiable by the input component, which is configured to test a psychomotor ability of the patient, cognitive ability of the patient, strength, balance, stability, and flexibility of the patient, and/or to substantially confirm that a person performing the activity is the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Shane Volpe
  • Patent number: 11064953
    Abstract: A fever-causing disease outbreak detection system for an early warning of the outbreak of an infectious disease. The system uses an array of infrared detectors to measure the temperatures of individuals in a population. The measured temperatures are used to create a measured population temperature distribution. A central control unit generates a predicted population temperature distribution using environmental data such as local atmospheric conditions and compares the predicted population temperature distribution to the measured population temperature distribution. If an outbreak is detected, an alert is issued.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Prince Mohammad Bin Fahd University
    Inventors: Faisal Al Anezi, Faramarz Djavanroodi, Nassim Khaled
  • Patent number: 11064954
    Abstract: A method for data display includes acquiring a three-dimensional (3D) map of a lumen inside a body of a subject, transforming the 3D map of the lumen into a two-dimensional (2D) image by projecting the 3D map onto an annulus, and presenting the 2D image on a display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Natan Sharon Katz, Lior Zar, Benjamin Cohen
  • Patent number: 11064955
    Abstract: A system and method for shape sensing assistance in a medical procedure includes providing (402) a three-dimensional image of a distributed pathway system. A shape sensing enabled elongated device is introduced (406) into the pathway system. A shape of the elongated device in the pathway system is measured (410). The shape is compared (414) with the three-dimensional image to determine whether a given path has been selected relative to a target.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Tobias Klinder, Robert Manzke, Raymond Chan
  • Patent number: 11064956
    Abstract: A breast compression paddle for use in an imaging system includes a compression surface and a jacket. The jacket includes at least one inflatable chamber disposed adjacent to the compression surface and a sheet covering at least a portion of the compression surface. The at least one inflatable chamber is configured to selectively inflate and induce the sheet to slide along the compression surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: HOLOGIC, INC.
    Inventors: Kenneth F. Defreitas, Timothy R. Stango
  • Patent number: 11064957
    Abstract: A dental imager includes an elongated handle with a rotatable head coupled to a distal end thereof and having a central platform with a plurality of arcuate scanning arms pivotally coupled thereto by a hinge. The arcuate scanning arms are of a shape and size for general deployment around a tooth and each include at least one scanner and a roller guide that comfortably rolls along the surface of the tooth or gums to bias the scanners a desired distance from the surface of the tooth, conducive for imaging thereof. In this respect, such a dental imager may be used in a process to scan and record the contours of an intraoral surface, the data of which may be used to create a digital three-dimensional surface impression printable by a 3D printer or the like.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Marco Martin
  • Patent number: 11064958
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an X-ray imaging apparatus and control method thereof, for guiding the user to intuitively recognize an actual dose of X-rays and select a proper dose, ultimately a condition for low dose of X-ray irradiation by providing the user with information about an actual X-ray dose to which an X-ray filter effect is reflected. In accordance with an aspect of the disclosure, an X-ray imaging apparatus includes: an X-ray source configured to generate and irradiate X-rays according to an X-ray irradiation condition including at least one of a tube voltage, a tube current, or a filter; a display configured to provide a graphic user interface to receive a choice about the X-ray irradiation condition; and a controller configured to obtain a parameter that represents a dose of radiation, to which an influence of the filter is reflected, based on the selected X-ray irradiation condition and control the display to display the parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Min Cheol Park, Jong Ha Lee, Dong Wook Kim, Eun Mi Jung
  • Patent number: 11064959
    Abstract: The electronic cassette includes a portable housing. A CPU of the electronic cassette functions as a RW controller, a first determination unit, and a mode controller. The RW controller acquires a standard pose as a pose of the housing in a stored state, in which the housing is stored in a storage portion of a movable radiography apparatus, from a ROM. The first determination unit determines whether the housing is in the stored state or a taken-out state, in which the housing is taken out from the storage portion, based on the standard pose and a current pose as a current pose of the housing detected by a pose detection sensor. The mode controller switches the drive mode from the sleep mode to the radiography mode in a case where the first determination unit determines that the housing is brought from the stored state into the taken-out state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Kazuhiro Makino
  • Patent number: 11064960
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a system and method for digital radiography. The system may include an X-ray generation module, an X-ray acquisition module, a control module, a support module and a power supply module. The system may include one or more moving components. The X-ray acquisition module may have different configurations, such as a vertical configuration, a horizontal configuration and a free-style configuration. The control module may be configured for controlling the motion of the moving components, the selection of an X-ray acquisition module of a specific configuration, and parameters of the X-ray exposure and image acquisition. The support module may include a system of guiding rails. The power supply module may include a supercapacitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jinpeng Jiang, Yuyang Nie, Zhongkun Guan, Wei Wang, Tao Ren, Yun Cao, Lin Ye, Zhanqiang Kong
  • Patent number: 11064961
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for controlling movement of a mobile imaging system. In one example, a mobile imaging system includes a mobile drive system, an imaging assembly coupled to the mobile drive system, and a driving interface configured to move the imaging assembly relative to the mobile drive system both axially and radially in response to user manipulation, and further configured to generate signals in response to the axial movement of the imaging assembly, the mobile drive system configured to move in response to the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY
    Inventor: Manfred David Boehm
  • Patent number: 11064962
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray tube, an X-ray detector, a moving body movable in a predetermined direction, a moving mechanism, a motor, an operating force detector configured to detect an operating force, and a controller configured or programmed to perform mode switching control to switch, based on whether or not an operation to enable manual movement of the moving body has been detected, a control mode to a torque control mode or a position control mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventors: Ken Shirota, Junpei Sakaguchi, Hiroshi Okumura
  • Patent number: 11064963
    Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a brain image of a subject. A cisternal region extraction unit extracts a cisternal region from the brain image by performing registration between a standard brain image and the brain image. Then, a bleeding region specifying unit specifies a bleeding region based on a first signal value distribution, which is the signal value distribution of the cisternal region extracted from the brain image, and a second signal value distribution, which is the signal value distribution of a cisternal region of the standard brain image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventor: Mizuki Takei
  • Patent number: 11064964
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods are described for use with a plurality of angiographic image frames of a moving lumen of a subject, including aligning the image frames with each other. Using the aligned image frames, a time it takes a contrast agent to travel a known distance through the lumen is determined. At least partially in response thereto, a characteristic of the lumen is determined, and, in response to the determined characteristic, an output is generated on a display. Other applications are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: SYNC-RX, LTD
    Inventors: David Tolkowsky, Alexander Steinberg, Eldad Klaiman, Ran Cohen
  • Patent number: 11064965
    Abstract: A respiratory motion signal generation method operates on emission data (22) of an imaging subject in an imaging field of view (FOV) acquired by a positron emission tomography (PET) or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging device (10). An array of regions (32) is defined in the imaging FOV without reference to anatomy of the imaging subject. For each region of the array of regions defined in the imaging FOV, an activity position versus time curve (54) is computed from the emission data acquired by the PET or SPECT imaging device. Frequency-selective filtering of the activity position versus time curves is performed to generate filtered activity position versus time curves. At least one motion signal (66) is generated by combining the filtered activity position versus time curves of at least a selected sub-set of the regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Andre Frank Salomon, Bin Zhang, Andreas Goedicke, Patrick Olivier
  • Patent number: 11064966
    Abstract: In an AED operation of detecting irradiation start of X-rays, a control unit of an electronic cassette selectively outputs the analog voltage signal from a part of the charge amplifiers including a detection CA connected to the detection channel of a detection pixel for irradiation start detection among the plurality of CAs connected to the MUX, to the ADC, causes the ADC to perform only the AD conversion process for the analog voltage signal selectively output from the multiplexer, and reduces the number of pulses NPU_A per unit time in a clock signal defining an operation timing of the ADC compared to that in the image reading operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Naoto Iwakiri, Kouichi Kitano, Syo Shimizukawa
  • Patent number: 11064967
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for imaging quality assessment of an imaging system employs an aggregate phantom and a processor for imaging analysis. The aggregate phantom includes a plurality of self-contained sections configured to be moved independently and re-assembled in the imaging system. Each section includes fiducial features of known relative location. The processor: quantitatively determines location of the fiducial features within an image of the aggregate phantom; compares the determined location within the image to the known relative location of the fiducial features to produce a distortion field; and distinguishes between actual geometric distortion of the imaging system and rigid-body transformations of sections of the aggregate phantom, in the distortion field. For extended fields-of-view, the aggregate phantom may be repositioned, and sets of images combined to determine a distortion field of the extended image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: THE PHANTOM LABORATORY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Richard P. Mallozzi, Joshua R. Levy
  • Patent number: 11064968
    Abstract: Method and system for evaluating arterial pressure waves, vascular properties, as well as for diagnostic, physiological and pharmacological testing using various combinations of the following data acquisition and processing steps (some of the steps are optional): 1. Perturbing arterial pressure from its steady state. 2. Measuring the dynamics of at least one parameter related to the passage of arterial pressure waves along blood vessels. 3. Characterizing the magnitude and functional relation of changes in parameters described above in relation to changes in blood pressure during its displacement from and/or return to the steady state. 4. Classifying (comparing) the individual functional relation described above with a databank of parameters/functional relations for different states of vasomotor activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Inventor: Vladimir Shusterman
  • Patent number: 11064969
    Abstract: A system for automatic configuration detection includes a medical device (250) including a sensor (246). A pattern (236) is coded into a portion of the medical device. The pattern is configured to store pertinent information about the device. A reader device (234) is coupled to a connector and configured to read the pattern to convey the pertinent information to determine one of a status, identity or manner of use for the medical device including the sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Ramon Quido Erkamp, Ameet Kumar Jain, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon
  • Patent number: 11064970
    Abstract: Systems and methods of facilitating the viewing of interventional instruments (e.g., needles, catheters, guidewires, vascular filters, biopsy probes) are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a portable, handheld or cart-based ultrasound imaging machine is connected to an external laser light source that transmits laser light to a tip of an interventional instrument via one or more optical fibers. The laser light is absorbed at the distal tip of the instrument and generates a photoacoustic signal. The ultrasound imaging machine creates an image by combining data from the received photoacoustic signals with ultrasound echo data to show both tissue in a region of interest and the tip of the interventional instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: FUJIFILM SONOSITE, INC.
    Inventors: Qinglin Ma, Kerem Karadayi
  • Patent number: 11064971
    Abstract: Provided is a non-invasive system and method of determining muscle tissue quality based on image processing. The non-invasive system and method includes determining muscle intramuscular fat content. The methods includes receiving at least one ultrasound scan image of at least a portion of a skin layer as disposed above one or more additional tissue layers, the skin layer defining a horizontal axis and the image provided by a plurality of pixels. The method continues by blurring the pixels of the image and thresholding the pixels of the image to provide an image having a plurality of structural elements of different sizes and gray scale. The method continues with morphing the structural elements of the image to remove small structural elements and connect large structural elements. With this resulting image, the method distinguishes muscle tissue from remaining elements. A ratio of black to white elements is evaluated to determine the muscle tissue quality or intramuscular fat content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: MuscleSound, Inc.
    Inventors: Pierre Sarnow, Stephen S. Kurtz, Andrew D. Jackson, Wayne Phillips
  • Patent number: 11064972
    Abstract: A method for generating an ultrasound image includes receiving a sequence of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) data obtained as an IVUS imager moves through a body lumen; identifying at least one bifurcation of the body lumen from the sequence of IVUS data; determining a bifurcation angle between two branches of the body lumen; and displaying a longitudinal view of the body lumen using the IVUS data and incorporating the bifurcation angle to angularly align portions of the longitudinal view corresponding to the two portions of the body lumen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.
    Inventors: Simone Balocco, Marina Alberti, Carlo Gatta, Francesco Ciompi, Oriol Pujol, Xavier Carrillo, Josepa Mauri Ferre, Oriol Rodriguez, Eduard Fernandez-Nofrerias, Petia Radeva
  • Patent number: 11064973
    Abstract: An ultrasound probe according to an embodiment includes: transducer elements, phase reversal processing circuitry, and delay processing circuitry. The transducer elements, each of which is configured to generate a first echo signal by receiving a reflected wave of a first ultrasound wave and to generate a second echo signal by receiving a reflected wave of a second ultrasound wave corresponding to an ultrasound wave obtained by reversing the phase of the first ultrasound wave. The phase reversal processing circuitry is configured to reverse the phase of the second echo signal. The delay processing circuitry is configured to delay the first echo signal and the phase-reversed second echo signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Masaaki Ishitsuka
  • Patent number: 11064974
    Abstract: A patient interface system for scanning a volume of tissue protruding from a patient, the system comprising: a base including a planar portion configured to support the patient in a prone configuration, and a frustoconical portion extending from the planar portion and defining a base aperture configured to receive the volume of tissue; and a support assembly configured to couple to the base, including a frame and a membrane retained in tension within the frame at a peripheral portion of the membrane, wherein the membrane defines a membrane aperture configured to align with the base aperture, and wherein the membrane is configured to deflect into the frustoconical portion of the base in response to the patient's weight. The system can further include an electrical subsystem including a pressure sensor array configured to generate signals in response to a pressure distribution resulting from the patient's weight at the patient interface system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Delphinus Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: James Szpak, Nebojsa Duric, Peter Littrup, Roman Janer, Mike Tesic