Patents Issued in January 9, 2024
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Patent number: 11864867Abstract: An exemplary system includes a light source and a control circuit configured to apply voltage having a first polarity to the light source for a first time period to provide a threshold charge for the light source to start an emission of a light pulse that is directed at a target within a body. The control circuit is further configured to apply voltage having a second polarity opposite the first polarity to the light source for a second time period subsequent to the first time period to discharge the light source to stop the emission of the light pulse.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: HI LLCInventors: Alex Borisevich, Ryan Field
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Patent number: 11864868Abstract: Disclosed is a modular, portable and rapidly deployable system for health assessment comprising a portable, rapidly deployable structure configured to provide immediate and real-time clinical prevention assessment services, which system allows for rapid assembly and disassembly, immediate deployment to even highly remote locations, and provides basic clinical prevention data and screening for a patient user, along with health education and awareness. In certain configurations, the system comprises modular walls that connect to one another to form the shell of a structure, and a plurality of medical instruments, all of which are configured for self-administration by a medically-untrained user. The user may engage one or more user interface devices that guide the user through the use of each medical instrument and collect the user's clinical data for analysis.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Morgan State UniversityInventor: Timothy A. Akers
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Patent number: 11864869Abstract: The invention presents an apparatus (6) for characterization of a condition of a vessel (12) wall of a living being (2). The relationship between temporal blood pressure (621) and blood flow (622) measurements of pulsatile blood motion within the vessel (12) is an indication of the health of the vessel (12) wall. Furthermore, the invention discloses a system (1) comprising the apparatus (6), and a method (100) of characterizing the condition of vessel (12) walls.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventor: Daniel Simon Anna Ruijters
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Patent number: 11864870Abstract: The invention generally relates to medical imaging systems that instantly and/or automatically detect borders. Embodiments of the invention provide an imaging system that automatically detects a border at a location within a vessel in response only to navigational input moving the image to that location. In some embodiments, systems and methods of the invention operate such that when a doctor moves an imaging catheter to a new location with in tissue, the system essentially instantly finds, and optionally displays, the border(s), calculates an occlusion, or both.Type: GrantFiled: February 10, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATIONInventors: A J Cheline, Fergus Merritt, Asher Cohen, Elizabeth Begin, Nathaniel J. Kemp, Jason Sproul, Badr Elmaanaoui
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Patent number: 11864871Abstract: A wearable device includes an external light collector configured to collect external light; a sensor including an auxiliary light source and a light receiver, and configured to measure a bio-signal of an object; and a processor configured to determine whether the external light is sufficient to measure the bio-signal, and to control driving of the auxiliary light source based on the determination.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jae Min Kang, Seung Woo Noh, Sang Yun Park, Jin Woo Choi
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Patent number: 11864872Abstract: A method of estimating a continuous blood pressure waveform or a continuous blood pressure in a subject including: measuring an arterial blood pressure waveform or an arterial blood pressure with a sensor supported by a supporting structure comprising a polymeric substrate and connected to a processor and a transmitter, wherein the supporting structure is configured to press the sensor against a skin surface of a subject, wherein the sensor is configured to detect a biological metric of the subject, and wherein the processor is configured to quantify one or more signal(s) corresponding to the biological metric and the transmitter is configured to transmit the one or more signals to an external user system, and transforming the arterial blood pressure waveform or the arterial blood pressure to the continuous blood pressure waveform or the continuous blood pressure using a transfer function.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIAInventors: Michelle Khine, Nicole Eckmann, Kimberly Veliz, Jonathan Pegan, Joshua Kim, Sun-Jun Park
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Patent number: 11864873Abstract: The present intraoral sensing system which is configured to sense a biological information using a sensor module installed in an oral cavity, including a sensor module installed in an oral cavity of a patient and configured to store data acquired when the biological information is sensed, a storage configured to acquire the data and an identification information of the patient stored by the sensor module, associate the acquired data with the identification information of the patient, and store the association, a terminal apparatus for a dentist configured to analyze the data stored in the storage for each of the identification information of the patient, and a terminal apparatus for a doctor configured to acquire the data associated with a patient who has a developed disease among the data of patients stored in the storage, from the terminal apparatus for a dentist.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: SEIKO GROUP CORPORATION, SCIENCE ENERGY CO., LTD.Inventors: Yoshifumi Yoshida, Kotaro Maki
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Patent number: 11864874Abstract: Method for determining a blood pressure value including the steps of: providing a pulsatility signal, determining a time-related feature and a normalized amplitude-related feature on the basis of the pulsatility signal; and calculating a blood pressure value on the basis of a blood pressure function depending on the time-related feature, the normalized amplitude-related feature and function parameters.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2015Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: CSEM CENTRE SUISSE D'ELECTRONIQUE ET DE MICROTECHNIQUE SA—RECHERCHE ET DÉVELOPPEMENTInventors: Martin Proença, Josep Sola i Caros, Mathieu Lemay, Christophe Verjus
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Patent number: 11864875Abstract: A possibility of extracting a signal less affected by a variation factor is increased. A data analysis device includes a data extraction unit, that extracts, as extracted data, a plurality of primary characteristic values corresponding to a plurality of extraction conditions which are different from each other and secondary characteristic values corresponding to the plurality of primary characteristic values, for each of a plurality of pieces of input data, a data identification unit that performs predetermined analysis processing on a plurality of pieces of extracted data, and identifies, based on a result of the predetermined analysis processing, analysis target data, and a data output unit that outputs output data generated based on a plurality of pieces of analysis target data.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SHARP KABUSHIKI KAISHAInventors: Ryota Tomizawa, Yoshihisa Adachi, Yuki Edo, Rieko Ogawa
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Patent number: 11864876Abstract: A light-to-digital converter (2) comprises a light-to-current converter (10); a current integrator (4) with an integrator output (30) resettable to a baseline level; and a counter (18) with a digital output (26), wherein the light-to-current converter (10) is switchably connectable as a positive integration input to the current integrator (4), for, during a light-collecting phase (404-406), integrating a current from the light-to-current converter (10), the integrator output (30) starting from the baseline value and ending at a value to be digitized; a reference current source (14) is switchably connectable as a negative integration input to the current integrator (4), for, during a counting phase (406-408) subsequent to the light-collecting phase (404-406), integrating a reference current from the reference current source (14), the integrator output (30) starting from the value to be digitized and ending at the baseline value, the time spent integrating the reference current corresponding to the value to beType: GrantFiled: May 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: IMEC VZW, KATHOLIEKE UNIVERSITEIT LEUVEN KU LEUVEN, STICHTING IMEC NEDERLANDInventors: Qiuyang Lin, Jiawei Xu, Shuang Song, Nick Van Helleputte, Filip Tavernier
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Patent number: 11864877Abstract: The invention relates to a photoplethysmography (PPG) sensing device comprising—a pulsed light source, —at least one pixel to create photo-generated electrons, synchronized with said pulsed light source. It is mainly characterized in that each pixel comprises: —a pinned photodiode (PPD) having two electronic connection nodes, —a sense node (SN), to convert the photo-generated electrons into a voltage, and—a Transfer Gate (TGtransfer) transistor, having its source electronically connected to one electronic connection node of said pinned photodiode (PPD), and being configured to act as a transfer gate (TG) between said pinned photodiode (PPD) and said sense node (SN), allowing the photo-generated electrons to sink when the light is pulsed-off, the photo-generated electrons integration when the light is pulsed-on and the transfer of at least part of the integrated photo-generated electrons to said sense node for a read-out.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FÉDÉRALE DE LAUSANNE (EPFL)Inventors: Assim Boukhayma, Antonino Caizzone, Christian Enz
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Patent number: 11864878Abstract: A system may include an expandable member, and a plurality of sensors disposed on an outer surface of the expandable member and circumferentially spaced apart from one another, wherein each of the plurality of sensors includes a first emitter configured to emit light of a first wavelength, and a detector configured to detect light, and a controller coupled to the plurality of sensors.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: George Wilfred Duval, Michael Y. Ko, James Weldon, Namita M. Kallur
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Patent number: 11864879Abstract: An antenna device includes: a first and a second conductive wire; a third and a fourth conductive wire which are disposed along a part of the boundary of a second area on a second plane parallel to and spaced apart from the first plane while being spaced apart from each other; a fifth and a sixth conductive wire which are disposed along a part of the boundary of a third area on a third plane parallel to and spaced apart from the second plane while being spaced apart from each other; connection parts connecting the second conductive wires.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: UNIST (ULSAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY)Inventors: Franklin Don Bien, Gang Il Byun
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Patent number: 11864880Abstract: A method for diagnosing one or more diseases of the respiratory tract for a patient including the steps of: acquiring cough sounds from the patient; processing the cough sounds to produce cough sound feature signals representing one or more cough sound features from the cough segments; obtaining one or more disease signatures based on the cough sound feature signals; and classifying the one or more disease signatures to deem the cough segments as indicative of one or more of said diseases; wherein the step of obtaining the one or more disease signatures based on the cough sound feature signals includes applying the cough sound features to each of one or more pre-trained disease signature decision machines, each said decision machine having been pre-trained to classify the cough sound features as corresponding to either a particular disease or to a non-disease state or as corresponding to first particular disease or a second particular disease different from the first particular disease.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THE UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLANDInventors: Udantha Abeyratne, Vinayak Swarnkar
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Patent number: 11864881Abstract: Techniques for determining a volume of exhaled CO2 as a function of time using side-stream capnography, including obtaining flow dynamics measurements of a subject from a flow sensor; obtaining CO2 concentration measurements of the subject from a side-stream CO2 monitor; determining a duration of time (?Ts1) for a sample of gas to flow from a reference point to the side-stream CO2 monitor; synchronizing in time the CO2 concentration measurement with the flow dynamics measurement, based on the determined ?Ts1; and determining a volume of CO2 exhaled as a function of time, based on the flow dynamics measurement and the synchronized CO2 concentration measurement.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Joshua Lewis Coleman, Michal Ronen
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Patent number: 11864882Abstract: The systems and methods described herein can advantageously allow users to discretely measure their exhaled breath in an easy, cost-effective and non-invasive manner. A handheld breath sensing system may be provided with a main housing, a first mouthpiece, a lid, a sampling chamber, a sensor and a microprocessor. The first mouthpiece may be configured to allow a user to exhale into the mouthpiece. The lid may be movable between an open position and a closed position. The sampling chamber may be in fluid communication with the first mouthpiece. The sensor may be in fluid communication with the sampling chamber and configured to measure at least one property of a user's breath. The microprocessor may be configured to process electronic signals from the sensor such that at least one volatile organic compound in the user's breath can be quantified and a resulting biomarker measurement provided to the user in near real-time.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BoydSense, Inc.Inventors: Joel Rabasco, Paul Klock, Ryan Held
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Patent number: 11864883Abstract: An acoustic wave measurement apparatus includes: an image display unit that displays an acoustic wave image; a measurement target designation receiving unit that receives designation of a measurement target; a position designation receiving unit that receives designation of a position of a measurement target on the acoustic wave image displayed on the image display unit; a measurement method information receiving unit that receives measurement method information indicating a measurement method; a detection measurement algorithm setting unit that sets a detection measurement algorithm based on the measurement target received by the measurement target designation receiving unit and the measurement method information received by the measurement method information receiving unit; and a measurement unit that detects the measurement target based on the received position and the detection measurement algorithm and performs measurement for the detected measurement target.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: FUJIFILM CorporationInventor: Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
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Patent number: 11864884Abstract: A tracking reference fixation support configured to fasten a medical tracking reference to a patient's head, the fixation support comprising an elastically deformable base-plate having a bottom surface, the base-plate being configured to rest via the bottom surface against the surface of a patient's head; an interface-plate providing an interface for rigidly attaching a medical tracking reference to the fixation support; and at least one joint that couples the interface-plate to the base-plate, which allows the base-plate to deform while the interface-plate remains substantially dimensionally stable. The invention further relates to a corresponding tracking reference headband and to a corresponding method of providing a patient's head with a tracking reference.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Brainlab AGInventors: Tobias Neun, Norman Plassky, Stefanie Schiele, Christian Lechner, Bert Bracke
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Patent number: 11864885Abstract: A biological state monitoring system (100) for monitoring a biological state of a subject on a bed (BD) over a predetermined monitoring period, includes: at least one load detector (11, 12, 13, 14) configured to detect a load of the subject on the bed; and a respiratory rate estimating unit (34) configured to successively obtain and output estimated values of a respiratory rate of the subject, based on a temporal variation of a detection value of the load detector. The monitoring period includes a body motion period in which the subject has a body motion, and a resting period in which the subject merely performs a respiration.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignees: MINEBE MITSUMI INC., NATIONAL UNIVERSITY CORPORATION CHIBA UNIVERSITYInventors: Shinsuke Todoroki, Shiroh Isono
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Patent number: 11864886Abstract: Herein disclosed is a system that may be implemented within a headphone to facilitate hearing testing. Implementation of the system in the headphone may include implementation of tone generation circuitry and sound pressure level measurement circuitry being implemented in the headphone limiting the amount of calibration for accurate measurement when performing a hearing test.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.Inventor: Mikael Mortensen
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Patent number: 11864887Abstract: In diabetes management applications, recent glucose measurement values may be clinically useful for acute diagnosis and for the calculation of a corrective therapy. However, the physiological significance of these measurements can lessen with time, which can lead to their becoming less relevant for calculating an effective therapy. A technique is presented for emphasizing analyte values in a diabetes management application during a therapeutic window. In this way, a user is notified that the glucose measurement value is the most current measurement and remains usable for therapy applications, such as an insulin bolus calculation.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Eric S. Carlsgaard, Nils Babion
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Patent number: 11864888Abstract: A method is provided for constructing a structured test having user-defined adherence criteria. The method includes: presenting a patient with a plurality of contextual criterion for a structured test; receiving selection of one or more contextual criterion from the plurality of contextual criterion; and constructing a structured test that includes the contextual criterion selected by the patient. During administration of the structured test, each of the contextual criteria selected by the patient is evaluated. Sample data acquired during the structured test is reported as compliant when each of the context criterion selected by the patient was met during the administration of the structured test or tagged as non-compliant when at least one contextual criterion was not met during the administration of the structured test.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventor: Steven A. Bousamra
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Patent number: 11864889Abstract: A system, apparatus, and device estimate the state of the glucose metabolism of the subject based on a correlation between a blood glucose level of the subject acquired in advance and an index which is based on the pulse wave of the subject associated with the blood glucose level.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventor: Hiromi Ajima
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Patent number: 11864890Abstract: An optical measurement device includes a light source, a first detector, and a second detector. The light source emits light to a measurement site of a patient and one or more detectors detect the light from the light source. At least a portion of a detector is translucent and the light passes through the translucent portion prior to reaching the measurement site. A detector receives the light after attenuation and/or reflection or refraction by the measurement site. A processor determines a light intensity of the light source, a light intensity through a tissue site, or a light intensity of reflected or refracted light based on light detected by the one or more detectors. The processor can estimate a concentration of an analyte at the measurement site or an absorption or reflection at the measurement site.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Cercacor Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Pauley, Cristiano Dalvi, Hung Vo, Jesse Chen, Ferdyan Lesmana, Jeroen Poeze, Sean Merritt
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Patent number: 11864891Abstract: Devices are provided for measurement of an analyte concentration, e.g., glucose in a host. The device can include a sensor configured to generate a signal associated with a concentration of an analyte; and a sensing membrane located over the sensor. The sensing membrane comprises a diffusion resistance domain configured to control a flux of the analyte therethrough. The diffusion resistance domain comprises one or more zwitterionic compounds and a base polymer comprising both hydrophilic and hydrophobic regions.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: DEXCOM, INC.Inventors: Robert J. Boock, Chris W. Dring
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Patent number: 11864892Abstract: Systems, methods, and apparatuses for reducing error between calculated analyte levels and impractical analyte measurements using practical analyte measurements as reference measurements for calibration. Reducing the error may include converting a practical reference analyte measurement into an estimated impractical analyte level, updating a conversion function using the estimated impractical analyte level, and using the updated conversion function to calculate an analyte level. In some embodiments, the practical reference analyte measurement may be a capillary blood analyte measurement, and the estimated impractical analyte level may be an estimated venous blood analyte level. In some embodiments, the updated conversion function may minimize the error between analyte levels calculated using the updated conversion function and estimated venous blood analyte levels.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Senseonics, IncorporatedInventor: Kamuran Turksoy
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Patent number: 11864893Abstract: An example device includes processing circuitry configured to receive, from an oxygen sensor, an ambient air signal indicative of an oxygen partial pressure of ambient air. The processing circuitry is further configured to receive, from an atmospheric pressure sensor, an atmospheric pressure sensor signal indicative of atmospheric pressure. The processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on the atmospheric pressure sensor signal, an oxygen partial pressure of the ambient air, determine, based at least in part on the oxygen partial pressure of the ambient air and the ambient air signal, the one or more calibration parameters, and calibrate, based on the one or more calibration parameters, the oxygen sensor. The calibrated oxygen sensor may be used to, for example, determine the oxygen content of urine of a patient to monitor renal function of the patient.Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: COVIDIEN LPInventors: Jacob D. Dove, Søren Aasmul, William S. Smith, David J. Miller, Jesper Svenning Kristensen
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Patent number: 11864894Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing calibration of analyte sensor including applying a control signal, detecting a measured response to the control signal, determining a variance in the detected measured response, and estimating a sensor sensitivity based on the variance in the detected measured response is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ABBOTT DIABETES CARE INC.Inventors: Gary Alan Hayter, Kenneth J. Doniger, Erwin Satrya Budiman, Songbiao Zhang, John Charles Mazza
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Patent number: 11864895Abstract: Deception can be evaluated by presenting a set of sentences or words to a testee, including some sentences or words that are expected to evoke significant pupil dilation in a testee who is lying and other sentences or words that are not expected to evoke significant pupil dilation in the testee. Changes in the testee's pupil size are compared to ascertain whether a pupil-dilation response to certain sentences or words is larger than for other sentences or words, and an indication of deceptiveness or non-deceptiveness is output based on the results of the ascertaining.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Eye-Minders Ltd.Inventors: Daphna Palti-Wasserman, Arik Lilling, Ofek Wasserman, Neta Lerman, Benny Karov, Maayan Wasserman
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Patent number: 11864896Abstract: Computer based systems and methods for estimating a user state are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods comprise inputting a first input at an intermittent interval and a second input at a frequent interval into a user state estimation model to estimate the user state. In some embodiments, the first inputs are enhanced by injecting a noise input to create a plurality of enhanced first inputs whereby the plurality of enhance first inputs correspond to the plurality of second inputs at the frequent interval. In some embodiments, the first input comprises a self-reported input and the second inputs comprise a physiological input, a performance input or a situational input. In some embodiments, a machine learning algorithm creates the state estimation model. In some embodiments, the state estimation model estimates a future user state. In some embodiments, a computer based system for estimating a user state is provided.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Aptima, Inc.Inventors: Kevin Durkee, Scott Pappada, Andres Ortiz, William DePriest, John Feeney, Alexandra Geyer, Seamus Sullivan, Sterling Wiggins
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Patent number: 11864897Abstract: Systems and methods for determining whether a user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in a task are disclosed. The systems and methods include determining one or more properties of the task based on information regarding the task received from a database storing information regarding the task, determining one or more properties of the user with respect to the task, determining a state of the user based on one or more physiological sensors configured to sense one or more characteristics of the user, and determining that the user employs System 1 type thinking or System 2 type thinking when engaged in the task based on the determined one or more properties of the task, the determined one or more properties of the user, and the determined state of the user.Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.Inventors: Rumen Iliev, Kent Lyons, Charlene C. Wu, Matthew Lee, Yanxia Zhang, Yue Weng
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Patent number: 11864898Abstract: A method for determining a muscle fatigue of a muscle includes a first step of electrostimulating the muscle at different frequencies. A second step of the method includes determining forces developed by the muscle in response to the electrostimulations of the first step. A third step includes determining a muscle fatigue on basis of the forces determined in the second step.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: MYOCENEInventor: Pierre Rigaux
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Patent number: 11864899Abstract: Device and method for an interactive skin device for monitoring physical parameters of a body of a living thing. The interactive skin device may be positioned in or proximate to the skin of the living thing. The interactive skin device may monitor at least one physical parameter generated by an implanted medical device. The interactive device may include a flexible display layer, a cover layer, and a control circuit. The control circuit may be configured to control operation of the flexible display layer. The interactive skin device may trigger an alert when the at least one monitored physical parameter deviates from a predetermined threshold. The implanted medical device may be electrically connected to the interactive skin device by wireless, wired, optical, or combination electrical circuitry. In one embodiment, one or more ECG acquisition devices implanted into a human provide ECG data to an interactive skin device or external computing device.Type: GrantFiled: April 17, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: INTERACTIVE SKIN, INC.Inventors: Paul R. Juhasz, Emily Tiernan
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Patent number: 11864900Abstract: This disclosure describes systems and methods for electrocardiographic waveform analysis, data presentation and actionable advisory generation. Electrocardiographic waveform data can be received from a wearable device associated with a patient. A mathematical analysis can be performed on the electrocardiographic waveform data to provide cardiac analytics. A visualization of the cardiac analytics on a dashboard display can be generated. A value can be based on a comparison of the cardiac analytics to at least one baseline value for the patient; and a decision of whether or not to generate an actionable advisory for the electrocardiographic waveform data can be made based on the value. When the actionable advisory is generated, the actionable advisory is sent to one or more medical professionals, where it can be modified, and displayed with the visualization of the cardiac analytics.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: THE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONInventor: Daniel J. Cantillon
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Patent number: 11864901Abstract: A delivery device for delivering a pacing lead to the His bundle of a patient's heart includes an elongated sheath having a distal end, and a plurality of mapping electrodes positioned at the distal end. The distal end of the sheath may have a distal tip, and the mapping electrodes may include two electrodes that diametrically oppose one another at a position spaced from the distal tip of the sheath. The sheath includes a plurality of flexible sections spaced apart from one another, and a pull wire that causes the sheath to deflect from a straight configuration to a dual hinged curved configuration that positions the electrodes in the vicinity of the bundle of His.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventors: Scott A. Kramer, Erich W. Stoermer, Joshua C. Conway, Gene A. Bornzin, Zoltan Somogyi, Amy L. Hanenburg, Emily Weiss, Paul A. Belk, Patrick P. Senarith
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Patent number: 11864902Abstract: Techniques are disclosed to identify if a current chamber being mapped is a target chamber that is desired to be mapped based on the relative position of the local activation time relative to QRS onset. Techniques are also disclosed whereby cardiac data can be labeled to indicate whether a beat was acquired while in the ventricle, or in the atrium.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: NEUTRACE, INC.Inventors: Chandan Chikkanayakanahally Kodandaswamy, Nandeesha Gowdagere Madalingaiah, Rohit Jain
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Patent number: 11864903Abstract: An information processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a processing section that executes a process including a correction process of specifying noise included in perspiration data acquired by a perspiration sensor on a basis of sensor data acquired by a different type of sensor than the perspiration sensor, and removing the noise from the perspiration data. According to such a technology, noise estimated according to other sensor data can be removed from the perspiration data, making it possible to maintain high accuracy in a later process of estimating activity in the autonomic nerves.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATIONInventors: Kiyoshi Yoshikawa, Naoya Sazuka, Yoshihiro Wakita
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Patent number: 11864904Abstract: Systems and methods for measuring the magnetic fields generated by renal nerves before and/or after neuromodulation therapy are disclosed herein. One method for measuring the magnetic field of target nerves during a neuromodulation procedure includes positioning a neuromodulation catheter at a target site within a renal blood vessel of a human patient near the target nerves, and detecting a measurement of the magnetic field generated by the target nerves. The method can further include determining, based on the measurement of the magnetic field, a location of the target nerves, a location of ablation at the target nerves, and/or a percentage the target nerves were ablated by delivered neuromodulation energy.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited CompanyInventors: Abhijeet Dubhashi, Douglas Hettrick, Guo Xu
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Patent number: 11864905Abstract: A biological function measurement and analysis system, a biological function measurement and analysis method, and a recording medium storing program code causing a computer to execute the biological function measurement and analysis method. The biological function measurement and analysis system includes an input acceptance unit configured to accept selection of a biological function to be measured, and a measurement and analysis procedure determining unit configured to access a memory in which measurement and analysis procedure data, indicating a combination of measurement and analysis of reaction of a live subject caused by stimulation on a biological-function-by-biological-function basis, is stored to specify measurement and analysis procedure data corresponding to the selected biological function.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: RICOH COMPANY, LTD.Inventors: Hirofumi Morise, Kiwamu Kudo, Yoshihiro Misaka, Eiichi Okumura, Tomoya Kimura, Yasuyuki Kawabuchi
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Patent number: 11864906Abstract: A method includes implanting an implantable biosensor within a subject where the implantable biosensor has an array of light sources and an array of light detectors, activating the array of light sources to direct light signals at a targeted tissue site in the subject, capturing, with the light detectors, the light signals reflected off the targeted site, calculating a roundtrip propagation time for each of the light signals and comparing the roundtrip propagation time for each of the light signals against previous calculated respective roundtrip propagation times to determine an occurrence of a change in the targeted tissue site.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Steven J. Holmes, Devendra K. Sadana, Stephen W. Bedell
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Patent number: 11864907Abstract: A method for evaluating a gastrointestinal tract may include receiving an electrical signal that includes data pertaining to motility in the gastrointestinal tract of a patient and analyzing one or more characteristics of the electrical signal relative to one or more respective thresholds indicative of an occurrence or an imminence of a condition of the gastrointestinal tract.Type: GrantFiled: January 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: George Wilfred Duval, Bryan Allen Clark, John Allen Hingston
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Patent number: 11864908Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a computing device, exposed stimuli based on sensor data; monitoring, by the computing device, a response to the stimuli based on the sensor data; detecting, by the computing device, a deviation between the response to the stimuli and an expected response to the stimuli, wherein the expected response to the stimuli is determined based on information stored by a knowledge corpus; and executing, by the computing device, a deviation instruction based on the detecting the deviation.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 11864909Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for evaluating the flow of blood in damaged or healing tissue. The present disclosure also provides methods of identifying a patient at the onset of risk of pressure ulcer or at risk of the onset of pressure ulcer, and treating the patient with anatomy-specific clinical intervention selected based on perfusion or blood oxygenation values, or a combination thereof. The present disclosure also provides methods of stratifying groups of patients based on risk of wound development and methods of reducing incidence of tissue damage in a care facility. The present disclosure also provides methods to analyze trends of perfusion or oxygenation measurements to detect tissue damage before it is visible, and methods to compare bisymmetric perfusion values to identify damaged tissue.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2019Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: BBI Medical Innovations, LLCInventors: Martin F. Burns, Graham O. Ross
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Patent number: 11864910Abstract: The present invention relates to devices, systems and methods for detecting disturbances that may occur during the sleep of a subject.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Sunrise SAInventor: Pierre Martinot
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Patent number: 11864911Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, systems, and implementations for inductive heating of a foreign metallic implant are disclosed. A foreign metallic implant may be heated via AMF pulses to ensure that the surface of the foreign metallic implant heats in a uniform manner. As the surface temperature of the foreign metallic implant rises, acoustic signatures may be detected by acoustic sensors that may indicate that tissue may be heating to an undesirable level approaching a boiling point. Once these acoustic signatures are detected, the AMF pulses may be shut off for a time period to allow the surface temperature of the implant to cool before applying additional AMF pulses. In this manner, the surface temperature of a foreign metallic implant may be uniformly heated to a temperature adequate to treat bacterial biofilm buildup on the surface of the foreign metallic implant without damaging surrounding tissue.Type: GrantFiled: November 22, 2022Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: The Board Of Regents Of The University Of Texas SystemInventors: Rajiv Chopra, David Greenberg, Yonatan Chatzinoff
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Patent number: 11864912Abstract: The invention is related to a device to sense the pulse on a wrist of a subject and to arrive at the health status of the said subject by capturing the pulse in real time; analyzing the pulse based on time-frequency properties of the pulse signal and Vata, Pitta and Kaphahumors of the subject. The device reliably detects and captures noise free pulse characteristics of a subject at the appropriate locations of the subject's wrist with minimal positional error in a user friendly way with minimal reliance on the expertise of the person measuring the pulses. The device facilitates the analysis of the pulses and provides a comprehensive diagnostic system based on the pulse characteristics, visual features, responses of a subject to structured queries to arrive at the tridosha levels in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2017Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: ATREYA INNOVATIONS PRIVATE LIMITEDInventor: Aniruddha Jyeshtharaj Joshi
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Patent number: 11864913Abstract: Numerous aspects of communication devices, methods, and systems are described. One aspect is a system comprising an implantable object and at least one energy generator coupled to the implantable object. The at least one energy generator may comprise a plurality of generator elements operable to output a plurality of different energy types in a signal direction toward one or more living tissues of a user. Each generator element of the plurality of generator elements may be independently operable to output one energy type of the plurality of different energy types in the signal direction. When the implantable object is implanted, the at least one energy generator may be operable to affect the one or more living tissues of the user by causing the plurality of generator elements to output an energy signal in the signal direction with one or more energy types of the plurality of different energy types.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Matthew Robert Leaper
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Patent number: 11864914Abstract: Exemplary aspects of an energy transceiver system are described, such as a wearable body and an energy generator comprising a plurality of generator elements operable to output a plurality of different energy types in a signal direction toward a user when the wearable body is worn. Each generator element of the plurality of generator elements may be independently operable to output one energy type of the plurality of different energy types in the signal direction. A biocompatible adhesive may attach the wearable body to the skin. A controller may cause the plurality of energy generator elements to output an energy signal in the signal direction with one or more energy types of the different energy types. The adhesive may maintain a position of the wearable body relative to the user and an orientation of the signal direction relative to the living tissues(s). Related apparatus, methods, and systems are described.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2023Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Inventor: Matthew Robert Leaper
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Patent number: 11864915Abstract: An ear-worn electronic monitoring system includes an on-ear component comprising a housing configured for placement on, in or about the wearer's ear. The on-ear component comprises a power source and a first interface coupled to the power source. The monitoring system also includes an in-ear component comprising a housing configured for deployment at least partially within an ear canal of the wearer. The in-ear component comprises a second interface configured to couple to and decouple from the first interface, a controller coupled to a memory, one or more physiologic sensors coupled to the controller and memory, and power management circuitry coupled to the controller. The power management circuitry comprises a wireless power receiver configured to receive power from a wireless powering arrangement. The power management circuitry is further configured to receive power from the power source of the on-ear component when the second interface is coupled to the first interface.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Starkey Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Paul Anders Shriner, Ezdeen Elghannai, Stephen Paul Flood, Gregory J. Haubrich, Zhenchao Yang
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Patent number: 11864916Abstract: The present invention relates to a three-dimensional adhesive device to be attached to the body surface of a mammal comprising a microelectronic sensing system characterized by (a) a three-dimensional adhesive body made of a pressure sensitive adhesive having an upper surface and a bottom surface; (b) a microelectronic system embedded in the body of the pressure sensitive adhesive; (c) one or more cover layer(s) attached to the upper surface; and (d) optionally a release liner releasable attached to the bottom surface of the adhesive device. Suitably the microelectronic system is a microelectronic sensing system capable of sensing physical input such as pressure, vibration, sound, electrical activity (e.g. from muscle activity), tension, blood-flow, moisture, temperature, enzyme activity, bacteria, pH, blood sugar, conductivity, resistance, capacitance, inductance or other chemical, biochemical, biological, mechanical or electrical properties.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2020Date of Patent: January 9, 2024Assignee: Braemar Manufacturing LLCInventors: Susanne Holm Faarbaek, Karsten Hoppe, Peter Boman Samuelsen, Jens Branebjerg