Patents Issued in March 1, 2022
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Patent number: 11259747Abstract: The disclosure features adaptive sleeves that include a sensor, an electronic processor connected to the sensor, an adjustable voltage source connected to the electronic processor, and a sleeve formed of a fabric material and including one or more deformable elements attached to or embedded within the fabric material and connected to the adjustable voltage source, where during operation of the adaptive sleeve, the electronic processor is configured to apply a force to a portion of a body of a sleeve wearer in proximity to a contracted muscle in the wearer's body by receiving an input electrical signal from the sensor, and adjusting the voltage source to apply an output electrical signal to the one or more deformable elements, the output electrical signal having a magnitude that is correlated with a magnitude of the input electrical signal.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: James A. Magnasco
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Patent number: 11259748Abstract: An electronic device includes a housing forming an enclosed chamber. The housing has a top portion and a bottom portion. One or more sensors is provided within the chamber and configured to interface with a user to generate physiological data associated with the user. A set of electrodes is provided on the bottom portion of the housing. Each electrode in the set of electrodes is a single member having a corresponding inner electrode portion within the chamber and an outer electrode portion outside the housing. A set of magnets is provided on the bottom portion of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: ANEXA LABS LLCInventor: Ana Trapero Martin
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Patent number: 11259749Abstract: Provided according to embodiments of the invention are photoplethysmography probes designed for use on a user's nasal alar. Methods of using such photoplethysmography probes are also provided herein.Type: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Richard J. Melker
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Patent number: 11259750Abstract: A guidewire system includes an elongated wire configured for insertion into a luminal space, such as the vasculature, of a body. The wire is conductive and configured to conduct electrical signals. One or more sensors are coupled to a distal section of the wire and configured to send and receive the electrical signals via the wire. The wire through which the one or more sensors are coupled is the only wire through which the one or more sensors send and receive the electrical signals.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: XENTER, INC.Inventors: Richard J. Linder, Edwin Meade Maynard, Scott Kenneth Marland, Cory Rex Estes, Steven Matthew Quist, Nathan J. Knighton
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Patent number: 11259751Abstract: In one embodiment, an electrical activity measurement system includes a catheter to be inserted into a body part and including at least one electrode, signal processing circuitry coupled to receive an intracardiac electrogram (IEGM) signal from the at least one electrode and process the IEGM signal for output to a recording apparatus via a cable, which picks up surrounding electrical noise, and feedback circuitry configured to receive at least some of the electrical noise picked up by the cable, and provide a feedback signal indicative of the received electrical noise to the signal processing circuitry, which is configured to compensate at least partially for the electrical noise, which is not yet in the IEGM signal but will be added to the IEGM signal in the cable, responsively to the feedback signal to produce a noise-compensated IEGM signal for output to the recording apparatus via the cable.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Biosense Webster (Isreal) Ltd.Inventors: Assaf Govari, Vadim Gliner, Andres Claudio Altmann, Alon Boumendil
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Patent number: 11259752Abstract: A method for adapting a medical system to an object movement during medical examination of the object and a medical system configured for carrying out the method. The medical system has a device for detecting and quantifying a motion of the object before or during an acquisition of diagnostic data. The system for detecting and quantifying a motion of the object is able to directly identify and qualify the occurrence of object motion and to automatically suggest an adaptation of the diagnostic data acquisition strategy/technique as a function of the object motion.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Thorsten Feiweier, Tobias Kober, Gunnar Krueger
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Patent number: 11259753Abstract: Systems and methods for determining if a wearable photoplethysmography device is correctly positioned in operating to medical signs of a user by using a classifier to determine if a signal is valid or invalid. In some embodiments, in using the classifier to determine in a signal is valid or invalid, a lean method of linear computational complexity and minimal memory complexity is provided for determining at the wearable photoplethysmography device if it is correctly positioned. In some embodiments, in using the classifier minimal computational complexity is used in determining at the wearable photoplethysmography device if it is correctly positioned.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Itamar Medical SPRY 2-21, Limited PartnershipInventors: Elad Ferber, Pierre-Jean Cobut, Ramkrishnan Narayanan, Derya Gol Gungor
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Patent number: 11259754Abstract: Provided are conformable devices to measure subdermal fluid flow and related methods. A soft, stretchable and flexible substrate supports a thermal actuator and various specially positioned temperature sensors. A microprocessor in electronic communication with sensors calculates subdermal fluid flow from the measured upstream and downstream temperatures, as well as various application-dependent parameters. Devices and methods provided herein are particularly useful for measuring cerebral spinal fluid in a ventricular shunt placed for treatment of hydrocephalus.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITYInventors: John A. Rogers, Siddharth Krishnan, Tyler R. Ray, Amit B. Ayer, Philipp Gutruf, Jonathan T. Reeder, Kun Hyuck Lee, Chun-Ju Su
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Patent number: 11259755Abstract: This terminal device is provided with: an acquisition unit which receives, from a server, information displayed on a display device used for medical treatment or care, and stores the received information in a storage unit; and a display control unit which displays the information on the display device. When a display stop condition, which indicates the likelihood that there is a difference between information stored in the server and information stored in the storage unit, is satisfied, the display control unit stops the display of at least information about biological information on a facility user who is a person requiring the medical treatment or care, among the information on the display device.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: PARAMOUNT BED CO., LTD.Inventor: Shinya Murai
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Patent number: 11259756Abstract: Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Vektor Medical, Inc.Inventor: Christopher Villongco
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Patent number: 11259757Abstract: A system, method, and apparatus for alerting temperature is disclosed. The system includes a temperature alert device configured to be housed within a housing, wherein the device is a wearable device including at least a sensor configured to continuously collect the body temperature of the wearer and indicate the body temperature of the wearer continuously through a light emitting mechanism based on the body temperature collected by the sensor in a manner that does significantly deplete battery life of the device.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2021Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: LIMANS 025 HOLDINGS, LLCInventors: Randy M. Kane, Jeffrey Rose
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Patent number: 11259758Abstract: Embodiments disclosed herein provide methods, systems, and computer readable storage media for facilitating enhanced communication with an application service provider based on medical telemetry collected by a user device. In a particular embodiment, a method provides collecting medical telemetry of a user of the user communication device and processing the medical telemetry to identify abnormalities therein. Upon identifying at least one abnormality in the medical telemetry, the method provides determining whether the at least one abnormality indicates that the user is experiencing a health issue. After determining that the at least one abnormality indicates that the user is experiencing the health issue, the method provides transferring a health notification indicating the health issue to the application service provider.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Avaya, Inc.Inventors: Ori Modai, John Yoakum
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Patent number: 11259759Abstract: An x-ray breast imaging system comprising a compression paddle in which the compression paddle comprises a front wall and a bottom wall. The front wall is configured to be adjacent and face a chest wall of a patient during imaging and the bottom wall configured to be adjacent a length of a top of a compressed breast. The bottom wall extends away from the patient's chest wall, wherein the bottom wall comprises a first portion and a second portion such that the second portion is between the front wall and the first portion. The first portion is generally non-coplanar to the second portion, wherein the compression paddle is movable along a craniocaudal axis. The x-ray breast imaging system also comprises a non-rigid jacket releasably secured to the compression paddle, the non-rigid jacket positioned between the compression paddle and the patient.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: HOLOGIC INC.Inventors: Timothy R. Stango, Kenneth F. Defreitas, Ian Shaw, Jay Stein, Lynne Jameson-Meehan, Loren Niklason
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Patent number: 11259760Abstract: A method of providing imaging of a patient supported by a patient support platform arranged to be rotated about a first patient rotation axis by a patient rotation angle, the method constituted of: rotating an imager about an imager rotation axis by the patient rotation angle; translating the imager along a first imager translation axis; and translating the imager along a second imager translation axis different than the first imager translation axis, wherein responsive to the translation of the imager along the first imager translation axis and along the second imager translation axis, the imager is translated along an imaging axis defined by the patient support platform such that the imager is arranged to image the patient supported by the patient support platform.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2013Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: P-CURE LTD.Inventors: Michael Marash, Michael Shpunt
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Patent number: 11259761Abstract: The invention relates to positioning a volume to be imaged for computed tomography imaging. According to the invention, at least two optical cameras (22) are used for taking a photo or for live imaging an anatomy from different directions. A volume positioning indicator (42) is shown in connection with these images, the volume positioning indicator (42) indicating the location of the volume within the area imaged by the cameras (22) to get imaged by the computed tomography imaging apparatus (10).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventors: Kustaa Nyholm, Lauri Seppala, Tero Pihlajamaki
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Patent number: 11259762Abstract: A system and method relating to a radiation based imaging are provided. The system may include a radiation source, a detector and a first grid. The detector may include a plurality of detector cells. The first grid may be located between the radiation source and the detector cells and the first grid may include a plurality of radiation transmitting sections. At least one of the plurality of detector cells may include an active area which may be configured to receive radiation from the radiation source that passes through at least one of the plurality of radiation transmitting sections of the first grid. The active area may be adjustable by adjusting the first grid. The radiation source, the first grid and the detectors cells may be operatively coupled for detecting an object. The method may include adjusting the first grid to adjust the active area of the detector.Type: GrantFiled: December 25, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventor: Hongjun Zhang
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Patent number: 11259763Abstract: The present invention provides a scan gantry for a medical imaging system. The scan gantry comprises a bottom supporting frame and a tilt supporting frame that are connected to each other, wherein the tilt supporting frame is tiltable relative to the bottom supporting frame. The scan gantry further comprises a locking mechanism connected between the bottom supporting frame and the tilt supporting frame. In the process that the tilt supporting frame is being tilted relative to the bottom supporting frame, the locking mechanism is in an unlocked state; and when the tilt supporting frame is stationary relative to the bottom supporting frame, the locking mechanism is in a locked state to prevent the tilt supporting frame from moving relative to the bottom supporting frame.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: General Electric CompanyInventors: Xiaoyan Zhang, Xuyong Yang, Jun Guo
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Patent number: 11259764Abstract: A multiple frame x-ray imaging system is disclosed with capability of differential x-ray exposure of different input areas of an image intensifier or other x-ray detector. Collimators are provided to control the amount of radiation in various regions of the image and image processing is provided to provide the display of images of different qualities.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: ControlRad Inc.Inventors: Haim Zvi Melman, Allon Guez
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Patent number: 11259765Abstract: A method for fluoroscopy energizes a radiation source to form a scout image on a detector and processes the scout image to determine and report a radiation field position with respect to a predetermined zone of the detector. The radiation source is energized for fluoroscopic imaging of a subject when the reported radiation field position is fully within the predetermined zone.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Carestream Health, Inc.Inventors: Samuel Richard, Xiaohui Wang, Michael C. Lalena
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Patent number: 11259766Abstract: An image acquisition unit acquires a plurality of projection images corresponding to each of a plurality of radiation source positions which have been generated by directing an imaging apparatus to perform tomosynthesis imaging for an object compressed by a compression plate. An edge image detection unit detects an edge image caused by the edge of the compression plate in the plurality of projection images. A cutout unit cuts out the projection image according to a positional relationship between the edge image and an image of the object to generate a cut-out projection image.Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventors: Hiroki Nakayama, Tomoki Inoue, Tomonari Sendai
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Patent number: 11259767Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced diagnosis of transthyretin-related cardiac amyloidosis in a subject are disclosed. The systems and methods may use both SPECT imaging data as well as an anatomical imaging data, such as computed tomography (CT) data, to produce a combined image. Within the combined image, the radiotracer uptake between two volumes of interests are compared, one of which may represent the left ventricle of the subject and the other may represent the blood pool retention of the subject. Combining the anatomical imaging data with SPECT data enables better anatomical delineation and helps in avoiding areas with coronary or lymph node calcifications and overlying soft tissue and bony pathologies.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and ResearchInventors: Ishan Garg, Andrew C. Hoffman, Geoffrey B. Johnson
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Patent number: 11259768Abstract: An apparatus for beta-emission two-dimensional imaging including: a beta ray detector configured to receive, from an imaging target containing a first nuclide and a second nuclide, a beta ray based on the first or second nuclide and thereby detect the beta ray, the beta ray detector outputting a beta ray detection signal including location information indicating a detection location of the beta ray on a two-dimensional basis; a gamma ray detector configured to detect a gamma ray, the gamma ray detector detecting the first and second peculiar gamma rays in a discriminable manner; and an imaging processor configured to be capable of generating a distribution image of the first nuclide and a distribution image of the second nuclide in a discriminable manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: RIKENInventor: Tomonori Fukuchi
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Patent number: 11259769Abstract: The present apparatus, system, and method relate to reliably capturing multiple x-ray images for later combination. An exposure shield blocks a portion of the x-rays emitted from a traditional emitter and collimator. The orientation of exposure shield may then be modified to block a second portion of x-rays while ensuring appropriate overlap of the captured images without intentionally moving the emitter or collimator and without the need for a patient to wear protective garb.Type: GrantFiled: May 7, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: X-Ray Cassette Repair, IncInventor: Steven A. Gdula
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Patent number: 11259770Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for x-ray imaging. In one embodiment, a method for an x-ray imaging system comprises acquiring, with an x-ray detector, an image including a noise artifact caused by electromagnetic interference, inputting the image to a trained neural network model to obtain a corrected image with the noise artifact removed, and outputting the corrected image. In this way, row-correlated noise artifacts caused by electromagnetic interference at the x-ray detector are eliminated or cancelled in real time and image quality is improved.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Feng Gao, Mahesh Narayanaswamy
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Patent number: 11259771Abstract: A computer-implemented method for determining a target position of an X-ray device encompasses acquiring image data describing an anatomical structure of a patient, for example, by means of a 3D scan, and registering the image data relative to a coordinate system of the patient, for example by means of a navigation system. Furthermore, a trajectory of an implant positioned within the anatomical structure relative to the patient coordinate system is acquired. A target position of an X-ray device for acquiring an X-ray image of at least part of the implant is determined based on the registered image and the acquired trajectory of the implant.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignees: Brainlab AG, MEDPHOTON GMBHInventors: Michael Bertram, Robert Essenreiter, Philipp Steininger, Heinz Deutschmann
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Patent number: 11259772Abstract: A mobile radiographic imaging system includes a mobile radiographic imaging apparatus and a radiographic imaging cassette. The radiographic imaging apparatus includes a displacement mechanism that electrically displaces a radiation emission unit and a displacement mechanism controller that controls the operation of the displacement mechanism. The radiographic imaging cassette includes a remote operation unit that is provided in a housing to remotely operate the displacement mechanism and an operation instruction transmission unit that transmits an operation instruction for operating the displacement mechanism to the displacement mechanism controller in a case where the remote operation unit is operated.Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Kazuhiro Makino
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Patent number: 11259773Abstract: A method and system for ultrasonic fluid spectral Doppler imaging are disclosed. The system comprises: a transmission circuit for transmitting an ultrasonic beam to a detection object; a receiving circuit and a beam synthesis module for receiving an echo of the ultrasonic beam and obtaining an ultrasonic echo signal; an image processing module for obtaining an ultrasonic fluid flow state image of a region of interest in the detection object according to the ultrasonic echo signal, identifying a sampling position in the region of interest, respectively obtaining a Doppler spectrogram corresponding to each sampling position according to the ultrasonic echo signal, and generating position displaying marks for characterizing the sampling positions; and a display for displaying the position displaying marks in the ultrasonic fluid flow state image, and displaying the obtained Doppler spectrogram. The system may simultaneously display spectra of multiple locations on a same time axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yigang Du, Shuangshuang Li
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Patent number: 11259774Abstract: An intervention system employs an optical shape sensing tool (32) (e.g., a brachytherapy needle having embedded optical fiber(s)) and a grid (50, 90) for guiding an insertion of the optical shape sensing tool (32) into an anatomical region relative to a grid coordinate system. The intervention system further employs a registration controller (74) for reconstructing a segment or an entirety of a shape of the optical shape sensing tool (32) relative to a needle coordinate system, and for registering the needle coordinate system to the grid coordinate system as a function of a reconstructed segment/entire shape of the optical shape sensing tool (32) relative to the grid (50, 90) (i.e., reconstruction of a segment/entire shape of the OSS needle inserted into/through the grid serving as a basis for the grid/needle coordinate system registration).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Shyam Bharat, Ehsan Dehghan Marvast, Molly Lara Flexman, Jochen Kruecker, Marissa Patricia Dreyer, Amir Mohammad Tahmasebi Maraghoosh
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Patent number: 11259775Abstract: Provided is a device that transmits and receives an ultrasonic wave to and from an entire periphery of a specimen while preventing a movement of the specimen. An ultrasonic wave transmission and reception device includes: an oscillator array that is arrayed with an oscillator, the oscillator transmitting and receiving an ultrasonic wave; a fixing tool that is disposed between the oscillator array and the specimen and retains the specimen; and a drive mechanism that presses at least a part of the fixing tool against the specimen as to retain the specimen. An ultrasonic wave transmitted by the oscillator array passes through the fixing tool and irradiates on the specimen, and as for the oscillator array, the oscillator array and the fixing tool are disposed in a positional relationship such that the ultrasonic wave reflected by and/or passing through by the specimen and passing through the fixing tool is received.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: FUJIFILM HEALTHCARE CORPORATIONInventors: Kazuhiro Yamanaka, Kenichi Kawabata, Takahide Terada, Atsurou Suzuki, Yushi Tsubota, Wenjing Wu
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Patent number: 11259776Abstract: An ultrasound endoscope includes: an ultrasound transducer; a balloon groove in which a balloon band is fitted; a contact portion that constitutes a bottom surface of the balloon groove; a first wall portion that constitutes a proximal end side of the balloon groove and in which a first distance that is a distance from a center of a cross section orthogonal to an extension direction of the insertion portion to an outer circumference of the first wall portion is larger than a second distance that is a distance from the center of the cross section to the bottom surface; and a second wall portion that constitutes a distal end side of the balloon groove, in which a distance from the center of the cross section to an outer circumference of the second wall portion is larger than the second distance, and that includes a notch portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATIONInventor: Teppei Tsuruta
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Patent number: 11259777Abstract: According to one embodiment, an ultrasound diagnosis apparatus includes a storage and a control unit. The storage stores transmission/reception conditions for a first ultrasound probe among a plurality of ultrasound probes. Upon receipt of a second switching instruction to switch a second ultrasound probe to the first ultrasound probe after a first switching instruction to switch the first ultrasound probe to the second ultrasound probe, the control unit applies the transmission/reception conditions stored in the storage to the first ultrasound probe when the time between the first switching instruction and the second switching instruction is less than a predetermined time.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventors: Koichi Morikawa, Hironobu Hongou, Gen Nagano, Kenichi Unayama, Satoshi Kamiyama
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Patent number: 11259778Abstract: A catheter system includes a catheter. The catheter includes a catheter tip and an ultrasound assembly at least partially positioned within the catheter tip. The ultrasound assembly includes a first optical fiber coupled to an optical-to-ultrasound transducer and a second optical fiber coupled to an ultrasound-to-optical transducer. The optical-to-ultrasound transducer is configured to generate an ultrasound signal in response to a pulsed optical signal. The ultrasound-to-optical transducer is configured to generate an optical signal in response to a received ultrasound signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed Inc.Inventors: Aiden Flanagan, Daniel J. Foster
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Patent number: 11259779Abstract: A body tissue to be detected is automatically detected certainly with high precision. An ultrasonic body tissue detecting device may include a transmission/reception unit, a two-dimensional data acquisition unit, a spatial frequency distribution calculation unit and a determination unit. The transmission/reception unit may transmit an ultrasonic signal into a body of a sample and receive an echo signal of the ultrasonic signal. The two-dimensional data acquisition unit may form two-dimensional echo image in a transmitting direction of the ultrasonic signal and in a scanning direction. The spatial frequency distribution calculation unit may perform a spatial frequency conversion of the two-dimensional echo image and calculate a spatial frequency distribution for a determining position.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2015Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Furuno Electric Co., Ltd.Inventor: Tatsuo Arai
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Patent number: 11259780Abstract: Disclosed are ultrasound medical detection devices and an imaging method, an imaging system and a display terminal. This method comprises: displaying an ultrasonic image on a first display screen, obtaining a mark point within the active area of a bicuspid valve on the ultrasonic image, automatically searching for a ventricular internal diameter reference point according to the mark point, calculating a hemodynamic parameter according to the internal diameter reference point and outputting the calculation result of the hemodynamic parameter.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.Inventors: Shuo Liu, Yong Li
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Patent number: 11259781Abstract: The present disclosure describes a therapeutic ultrasound system configured to adaptively transmit ultrasound pulses toward microbubbles in a treatment region to remove an occlusion. In some examples, the system may include a treatment pulse unit configured to transmit an ultrasound pulse to a treatment region of a subject, the treatment region including a plurality of microbubbles. An echo detection unit may be configured to receive one or more echoes responsive to the ultra sound pulse. In some examples, the system may also include a data processor configured to identify, using data associated with the echoes, at least one echo signature indicative of a dynamic state of the microbubbles in response to the ultrasound pulse. A controller may be configured to adjust one or more parameters of an additional ultrasound pulse transmitted to the treatment region via the treatment pulse unit based on the at least one echo signature.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: William Tao Shi, Jonathan Thomas Sutton, Jeffry Earl Powers, Ralf Seip
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Patent number: 11259782Abstract: A medical image processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: obtain a medical imaging data set representative of at least part of at least one surface; render from the medical imaging data set at least one image of the at least part of the at least one surface, wherein the or each image is rendered using a respective lighting configuration; and determine a measure of lighting quality for the or each rendered image; wherein, for the or each rendered image, the determining of the measure of lighting quality comprises, for each of a plurality of locations on the at least part of the at least one surface, determine a correspondence between a curvature of the at least one surface at that location and a lighting value at that location, wherein the lighting value is obtained from the rendering of the image; and determine the measure of lighting quality based on the determined correspondences.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Magnus Wahrenberg
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Patent number: 11259783Abstract: An embodiment is for determining a region of interest to be rendered in an ultrasound volume data set of an interior of an object under examination. In an embodiment, the method includes: determining a projection position in a two dimensional X-ray projection image of the object under examination, wherein a projection ray correlated to the projection position passes through the region of interest; and extracting a partial data set encompassed by the ultrasound volume data set using the projection position determined and based upon geometrical information relating to the X-ray 3D ultrasound unit.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHCARE GMBHInventors: Marcus Radicke, Ludwig Ritschl
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Patent number: 11259784Abstract: The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an ultrasound imaging method and system, the method may include transmitting a plurality of plane wave ultrasound beams to a scan target and acquiring corresponding plane wave echo signals; transmitting focused ultrasound beams to the scan target and acquiring corresponding focused beam echo signals; acquiring a plurality of velocity components of a target point in the scan target using the plane wave echo signals, and acquiring velocity vectors of the target point according to the plurality of velocity components; acquiring an ultrasound image of the scan target using the focused beam echo signals; and displaying the velocity vector and the ultrasound image.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: SHENZHEN MINDRAY BIO-MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Yigang Du, Rui Fan, Yong Li
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Patent number: 11259785Abstract: A sampling probe, having a housing, with a flange at housing's proximal end, and an internal step ring including a protruding follower tab toward housing's distal end. The sampling probe further includes a shaft inside the housing, with a brush at shaft's distal end and a handle at shaft's proximal end. The shaft includes a solid proximal section, and a spirally grooved distal section, engaging the housing's follower tab. A retracting compression spring is positioned on the spirally grooved distal section of the shaft inside the housing. With the sampling probe distally inserted in a vagina canal for a Pap smear, pushing the shaft handle distally, the brush at the end of the shaft protrudes out of the housing rotationally, taking a cell sample, followed by the retracting compression spring retracting the brush back into the housing when the shaft handle is released, completing the Pap smear.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventor: Lida Aghdam
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Patent number: 11259786Abstract: Provided is a cutting biopsy instrument facilitating loading by minimizing a change in a grip on a biopsy instrument and enhancing tissue sampling accuracy and safety and simplifying collection of sampled tissue by proposing a new shift relation between an stylet and an cannula at the shooting of the needles.Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: FLOWER MEDICAL CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyung Jin Ko
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Patent number: 11259787Abstract: A medical instrument includes a tubular cutter extending along an axis and having a windowed outer sleeve and a moveable inner cutting sleeve. An ultrasound transducer is operatively coupled to the inner cutting sleeve in order to induce motion in the inner cutting sleeve to enhance cutting or resection of tissue by the inner cutting sleeve as it is reciprocated or otherwise moved past the cutting window. The instrument typically will include a motor drive configured to reciprocate and/or rotate the inner cutting sleeve relative to the windowed outer sleeve, usually at a reciprocation rate between 1 and 10 Hz.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Hermes Innovations LLCInventor: Csaba Truckai
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Patent number: 11259788Abstract: A medical device is provided in which one or both ends of the device encourage the formation of tissue across substantially the entire area of the respective end that is exposed to the blood flow for reducing the risk of a thrombotic embolism. The medical device further includes stabilizing wires configured to engage tissue at a target site when the medical device is in an expanded configuration and to at least partially retract into the medical device when the medical device is in a collapsed configuration.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventors: Matt C. Glimsdale, Brian J. Perszyk, Michael Meyer
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Patent number: 11259789Abstract: A septal closure and port device for implantation in the atrial septum of a patient's heart includes an expandable frame with a central portion defining a lumen, and first and second opposing end portions. The frame can expand and contract between a compressed, tubular configuration for delivery through the patient's vasculature and an expanded configuration in which the first and second end portions extend radially outwardly from the opposite ends of the central portion. The device can also have a valve member supported on the frame and positioned to block at least the flow of blood from the left atrium to the right atrium through the lumen of the frame. The valve member permits a medical instrument to be inserted through the lumen and into the left atrium, for performing a subsequent medical procedure in the left side of the heart.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Edwards Lifesciences CorporationInventors: Stanton J. Rowe, Ming H. Wu, Jinny Lee, Ralph Schneider, Sergio Delgado, Ilan Tamir
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Patent number: 11259790Abstract: Described is a surgical device to retain and move an organ during surgical operations, which makes it possible to easily prepare the system for holding the organ and avoids the need both for a dedicated access trocar for exclusive use and the insertion of an operating member connected irreversibly to the surgical device. The surgical device minimises the risk of tearing and/or bleeding of the organ following the actions applied on the same organ during the surgical operation.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Inventors: Gabriele Valenti, Valentina Valenti, Sebastiano Sciarretta
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Patent number: 11259791Abstract: A method of facilitating access to a neonate through a caesarean incision in the woman's abdomen by opening the incision, includes providing a supporting ring dimensioned to allow delivery of a neonate through the ring and comprising a non-adjustable pelvic-region retractor and handle fixed to the supporting ring and articulating the supporting ring to insert the non-adjustable pelvic-region retractor into the incision to cover and hold back the woman's bladder with the supporting ring disposed over the woman's abdomen. A first adjustable saddle-shaped retractor is then inserted into the incision to cup a first section of abdominal tissue on an abdominal side of the incision, before attaching the first adjustable saddle-shaped retractor to the supporting ring while it is cupping the first section of abdominal tissue at a first position spaced apart from the non-adjustable pelvic-region retractor to anchor the supporting ring to the woman and partially open the incision.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2020Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: National University of Ireland, GalwayInventors: Padraig Maher, Barry McCann, Marie-Therese Maher
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Patent number: 11259792Abstract: A method of coupling a first portion of an anatomy to a second portion of the anatomy includes coupling first and second bones of the anatomy with a bone-tendon-bone implant. The bone-tendon-bone implant has a first bone end, a second bone end and a replacement tendon between the first and second bone ends. The first and second bone ends are positioned in corresponding first and second bores of the first and second bones. The first bone end is secured to the first bone with a first bone anchor. A second anchor coupled to the bone-tendon-bone implant is passed through and outside the second bore. The second anchor is coupled to an adjustable suture construct having two adjustable suture loops. Tensioning at least one of first and second ends of the adjustable suture construct tensions the replacement tendon and positions the first bone relative to the second bone.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLCInventors: Gregory J. Denham, Kevin T. Stone
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Patent number: 11259793Abstract: A surgical access assembly comprises a trocar and a surgical instrument. The trocar comprises a housing and an access tube extending distally from the housing. The housing comprises a hollow light emitter. The housing and the access tube define a lumen extending through the housing and the access tube. The hollow light emitter is configured to project light in the lumen. The surgical instrument comprises an end effector and a shaft extending proximally from the end effector. The shaft comprises an optical receiver positioned within reach of the light from the hollow light emitter. The shaft further comprises a light guide extending from the optical receiver along at least a portion of the shaft toward the end effector.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 2018Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Charles J. Scheib, Joshua D. Young
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Patent number: 11259794Abstract: A suture construction and method for forming a suture construction is disclosed. The construction utilizes a suture having an enlarged central body portion defining a longitudinal passage. First and second ends of the suture are passed through first and second apertures associated with the longitudinal passage to form a pair of loops. Portions of the suture lay parallel to each other within the suture. Application of tension onto the suture construction causes constriction of the longitudinal passage, thus preventing relative motions of the captured portions of the suture.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Biomet Sports Medicine, LLCInventors: Kevin T. Stone, Jason D. Meridew
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Patent number: 11259795Abstract: A suture passer comprising: a hollow tube, the hollow tube comprising a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end; and a clamping rod slidably received in the lumen of the hollow tube, the clamping rod comprising a distal end and a proximal end, the distal end being bifurcated into a first arm and a second arm, one of the first and second arms extending distally of the other of the first and second arms and including a clamping surface; wherein at least one of the first arm and the second arm comprises a friction-enhancing surface for facilitating manipulation of a suture via engagement of the suture with the friction-enhancing surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2017Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Daren Stewart, Roger Pisarnwongs, James Flom
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Patent number: 11259796Abstract: A bio paracentesis needle includes a tube-shaped body having a hollow portion through which a suture is inserted, an insertion portion formed at an end of the body to cut skin and insert the body, and at least one removal cut to an inside of the body to remove waste under the skin when the body is inserted. The insertion portion includes a first inclined edge having a diagonal surface inclined downward in a direction from a first end of the both to the hollow portion, a second inclined edge having a diagonal surface inclined upward from a second end of the body to the first inclined edge, the second end being positioned opposite the first end, and a third inclined edge has a diagonal surface inclined downward in a direction from an end of the first inclined edge to the second inclined edge.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: 21 Century Medical Co. Ltd.Inventors: Mi Hyang Sin, Jae Won Yoo