Patents Issued in April 18, 2024
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Publication number: 20240122435Abstract: An escaping method of a cleaning robot includes: when the cleaning robot encounters an obstacle and turns around while performing cleaning along an edge of a first surface medium area, in response to a surface medium change signal from the surface medium sensor indicates that a second surface medium area is detected, searching an established room map to determine whether the second surface medium area exists in the room map; if the second surface medium area exists, determining whether a route bypassing the second surface medium area exists based on the room map and a boundary of the second surface medium area in the room map; if the route exists, controlling the cleaning robot to travel along the route to bypass the second surface medium area; and if the route does not exist, controlling the cleaning robot to return along a cleaned route to bypass the second surface medium area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Lei WANG, Lei ZHANG
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Publication number: 20240122436Abstract: The present disclosure provides an autonomous cleaning device, including: a mobile platform, configured to move autonomously on an operation surface; and a cleaning module, disposed on the mobile platform, and including: a wet cleaning module, configured to clean at least part of the operation surface in a wet cleaning mode; a lifting structure, connected to the wet cleaning module and configured to enable the wet cleaning module to move upwards or downwards relative to the mobile platform; and a driving assembly, connected to the lifting structure and configured to provide power for lifting of the lifting structure, and/or, to provide a cleaning liquid for the wet cleaning module.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 2, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Xing LI, Pan CHENG, Chuanlin DUAN, Erdong GU
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Publication number: 20240122437Abstract: An automated cleaning machine may include one or more short cleaning cycles in which the duration of a cleaning cycle is shortened relative to the duration of a default cleaning cycle. During a short cleaning cycle, other cleaning cycle parameters may also be adjusted to ensure that the articles subjected to the short cleaning cycle are adequately cleaned and sanitized. For example, the wash temperature, rinse temperature, and/or cleaning product amounts or concentrations, may be adjusted to account for the shortened duration of the cleaning cycle. The automated cleaning machine may further include one or more short cycle mode(s) during which short cleaning cycle parameters are used and one or more default cycle mode(s) during which default cleaning cycle parameters are used.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Rachel Marie McGinness, Jonathan Charles Butwinick, Paul R. Kraus, Alissa R. Ellingson, Conor Sylvester Smith, Paul Dominic Christian
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Publication number: 20240122438Abstract: A dishwasher appliance includes a wash tub that defines a wash chamber, a sump for collecting wash fluid, a wash pump assembly in fluid communication with the sump for circulating the wash fluid, a diverter assembly fluidly coupled to the wash pump assembly for selectively directing the wash fluid, and a hydraulic manifold assembly fluidly coupled to the diverter assembly. The hydraulic manifold assembly includes a lower portion positioned over a diverter housing of the diverter assembly to at least partially define a diverter chamber of the diverter assembly and an upper portion joined to the lower portion to define a filter cleaning manifold and one or more spray arm channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Kyle Edward Durham, Adam Christopher Hofmann, Craig Curtis
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Publication number: 20240122439Abstract: A household appliance includes a cabinet defining a chamber, a door assembly mounted to the cabinet to selectively restrict access to the chamber, the door assembly includes a front panel defining a handle cavity. The door assembly also includes a pocket handle received in the handle cavity, the pocket handle having a flange with a plurality of tab passages. A plurality of bend tabs are positioned around the handle cavity and received in a first position through the plurality of tab passages. The bend tabs are deformable into a second position where they engage the flange to secure the pocket handle to the front panel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Aldo Vincent Kremmel
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Publication number: 20240122440Abstract: A dishwasher including a tub including an opening; a door configured to open and close the opening; a first blower positioned at a first side of the tub; and a second blower positioned at a second side of the tub; wherein the first blower is configured to, while the door is positioned to open the opening, discharge a portion of air inside of the tub through the opening to outside of the tub so as to lower humidity inside of the tub, and the second blower is configured to, while the door is positioned to open the opening, circulate air inside of the tub that is not discharged by the first blower.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Heeyuel ROH, Kookjeong SEO, Jeongmin JEON, Haejin SONG, Jaeeun HUH
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Publication number: 20240122441Abstract: A vessel rinsing apparatus including a mounting base, a fluid discharge member including a plurality of nozzles, a valve member operably coupled to the fluid discharge member and configured to control water flow through the nozzles, and an escutcheon supported by the mounting base.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Mark Cipriani, Todd Huffington, Alfred Nelson, Michael Veros, Kyle Davidson, Kurt Thomas, Jeffrey Moore
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Publication number: 20240122442Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a shoe care apparatus including: a main body, a care room provided in the main body configured to accommodate shoes, a machine room provided in the main body configured to accommodate a heat pump device including an evaporator and a condenser, a circulation flow path configured to communicate with the care room so that air discharged from the care room passes through the evaporator and the condenser and is supplied to the care room, a first blower fan disposed on the circulation flow path configured to blow air in the circulation flow path in a first direction so that the air in the circulation flow path passes through the machine room from the care room and circulates back to the care room, and a second blower fan disposed in the machine room configured to blow air in the machine room in a second direction so that the air in the machine room passes through the condenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Joongwon NA, Minsoo KIM, Heemoon JEONG, Kookjeong SEO
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Publication number: 20240122443Abstract: A program causes a computer communicatively connected to an endoscope apparatus provided with a master endoscope and a slave endoscope to execute processing, including acquiring a master endoscope image of a subject from the master endoscope, acquiring a slave endoscope image of the subject from the slave endoscope, and correcting a color tone of at least either one endoscope image of the master endoscope image and the slave endoscope image so as to reduce a difference in color tone between the master endoscope image and the slave endoscope image that have been acquired.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: HOYA CORPORATIONInventors: Akihiko NISHIDE, Junko SUGAI
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Publication number: 20240122444Abstract: In the endoscopic examination support apparatus, the image acquisition means acquires captured images during removal of an endoscope. The posture change estimation means estimates a relative posture change of an endoscope camera from the captured images. The distance estimation means estimates a distance between a surface of colon and the endoscope camera from the captured images. The intestinal tract direction estimation means estimates an intestinal tract direction of the colon based on the posture change and the distance. The calculation means calculates a direction in which the endoscope camera should be directed, based on the intestinal tract direction and the relative posture of the endoscope camera. The output means outputs a display image including the direction in which the endoscope camera should be directed, to a display device. The display image can be used for support such as user's decision making.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NEC CorporationInventors: Hiroyasu SAIGA, Tatsu Kimura
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Publication number: 20240122445Abstract: A medical visualisation system including a medical visualisation device for performing a medical visualisation procedure and a monitor device. The medical visualisation system includes an auxiliary component including an auxiliary memory and an auxiliary communication interface. The auxiliary memory storing initial data and the auxiliary component being configured to transmit the initial data to the monitor device using the auxiliary communication interface, and wherein a monitor processing unit of the monitor device is configured to receive the initial data and adjust one or more parameters of the medical visualisation system based on the initial data.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: AMBU A/SInventor: Brian NIELSEN
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Publication number: 20240122446Abstract: In embodiments set forth herein, an intraoral scanner comprises a body, and a probe at one end of the body, the probe comprising a scanner head. The intraoral scanner further comprises a wireless communication module disposed within the body, and one or more optical sensor to receive light that enters the scanner head and generate intraoral scan data based on the light, wherein the wireless communication module is to wirelessly send the intraoral scan data to a computing device. The intraoral scanner further comprises a primary power source disposed within the body, wherein the primary power source comprises at least one of a long distance wireless power transfer (LDWPT) receiver or a replaceable battery. The intraoral scanner further comprises a secondary power source disposed within the body, wherein the secondary power source comprises at least one of a rechargeable battery or a capacitor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Edi Fridman, Moshe Alboher
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Publication number: 20240122447Abstract: An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image. The intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Toralf Popp, Urs Vogel
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Publication number: 20240122448Abstract: Medical software tools platform utilizes a surgical display to provide access to specific medical software tools, such as medically-oriented applications or tools, that can assist those in the operating room, such as a surgeon or surgical team, with a surgery. In particular, an optical sensor located within an endoscopic camera may register subtle differences in color characteristics reflected from a tissue surface and in turn transmit the information to a medical image processing system. Moreover, the new tools are intended to help surgeons better determine the boundaries between healthy and diseased regions during surgical procedures. Various tools are intended to be used in procedures where indocyanine green (ICG) fluorescent dye is used. Intraoperative fluorescence imaging is commonly used during minimally invasive procedures to enable surgeons to visualize tissue perfusion and anatomical structures. The term perfusion refers to the passage of blood and tissue fluid through the capillary bed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: JACK WADE
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Publication number: 20240122449Abstract: A system is disclosed that can have a first device and a second device. The first device can have a tube, a deflectable section, and a camera. The second device can have a first tube. A stabilizer can be advanceable from the first tube. The second device can have a second tube. A third tube can be advanceable from the second tube. The first device can be an endoscope. The first device can be attachable to the second device via a connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Grumpy Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Sameer SHARMA, Luke Emerson HESS, Emily Marie ROBIDEAU, Leonard ZERMAN, Anthony ASAAD
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Publication number: 20240122450Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods for a valve for a medical device. The valve may include a valve stem. An elongate body of the valve stem may include a first opening and a second opening fluidly coupled to one another via a lumen. The valve stem may include one or more seals extending circumferentially around the elongate body. The one or more seals may include sealing surfaces that may be non-perpendicular with a longitudinal axis of the elongate body to selectively fluidly isolate openings or other features of a valve well in which the valve stem is configured to translate.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventor: Nathan Thomas Cummings
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Publication number: 20240122451Abstract: A medical device comprising a shaft defining a first channel having a distal opening, a printed circuit board (PCB) coupled to a distal end of the shaft to expose the distal opening to an external environment, wherein the PCB includes an imager and at least one light, the imager and the at least one light mounted on a distal facing surface of the PCB, and an optically clear covering, wherein the covering covers the imager and the at least one light.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 27, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Eric LENT, Niraj RAUNIYAR
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Publication number: 20240122452Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods facilitating navigation through a body passage, particularly a tortuous body passage. An expandable member is mounted with respect to an element of the device or system and is shiftable from a delivery configuration to an expanded configuration. In the expanded configuration, the expandable member facilitates navigation of the device and/or system through a tortuous section of the body passage. The expandable member may include an expandable basket-like element formed of one or more elements shiftable from a generally elongated configuration when the expandable member is in the delivery configuration to a curved or bowed configuration when the expandable member is in the expanded configuration. Additionally or alternatively, the expandable member may include an inflatable balloon. The system and method may include delivering a device such as a locator element to a target site to be identified from a remote location.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: BOSTON SCIENTIFIC SCIMED, INC.Inventors: Gian Franco Loo Fuchs, Yeison Calvo, Gonzalo Jose Saenz Villalobos, Sean P. Fleury, Molly Phillips-Hungerford
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Publication number: 20240122453Abstract: In vivo visualization systems are described which facilitate tissue treatment by a user in utilizing real time visualized tissue images with generated three-dimensional models of the tissue region of interest, such as the left atrial chamber of a subject's heart. Directional indicators on the visualized tissue as well as the imaging systems may be utilized while other variations may utilize image rotation or manipulation of visualized tissue regions to facilitate catheter control. Moreover, visualized tissue regions may be combined with imaged tissue regions as well as navigational information to further facilitate tissue treatments.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Vahid Saadat, Antony Jonathan Fields, Zachary J. Malchano, Chris Rothe, Veerappan Swanimathan, Jason Paul Watson, Bryan Wylie
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Publication number: 20240122454Abstract: A signal cable includes: a plurality of electric wires; a first insulating layer surrounding the plurality of electric wires; a shielding layer covering a circumference of the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer covering a circumference of the shielding layer; and a fixing portion fixing a distal end portion of the shielding layer, in which distal end portions of electric wires protrude more toward a distal end side than a distal end portion of the second insulating layer, the distal end portion of shielding layer is disposed nearer to the proximal end side than a distal end portion of the first insulating layer and the distal end portion of the second insulating layer, and the fixing portion fixes the distal end portion of the shielding layer in a space between the distal end portion of the first insulating layer and the distal end portion of the second insulating layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORP.Inventor: Masaru INAMURA
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Publication number: 20240122455Abstract: An improved air retention device or a patch for colonoscopy comprises of a first end and a second end located at a distal end of the first end. During colonoscopy, the first end of the air retention device is put on the surface of a person's buttocks such that the surface of the first end is flush with the skin of the person's buttocks—the device placed on the gluteus of a person and tightened around a colonoscope. The second end of the air retention device is pulled away from the first end around a central axis aligned with the center of the anus of the person undergoing the colonoscopy.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: ANDREW S. KORMAN
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Publication number: 20240122456Abstract: An oropharyngeal glove (OPG) is provided for use in a rigid, or flexible bronchoscopy procedure and for anesthesia recovery. Portions of the OPG conform to portions of the patients mouth and throat. During a bronchoscopy procedure, the bronchoscope tube passes through an opening in a proximal end of the OPG, through the OPG and through an opening in a distal end of the OPG into the patient s trachea. A flexible body of the OPG protects the patients mouth, throat and vocal cords from being damaged by the bronchoscope tube. A tubular extension disposed on the proximal end of the OPG provides the opening through which the bronchoscope tube first passes. Post procedure, the tubular extension can act as an airway device that connects to a ventilator machine to deliver air to the patient, thereby obviating the need to install a separate airway device to ventilate the patient during anesthesia recovery.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Skillhead LLCInventor: Ismael A. Matus
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Publication number: 20240122457Abstract: The present invention provides an endoscope, which includes a catheter, a handle, an instrument tube, a linkage unit, a controlling unit, cables, tension units, and a tension adjusting unit. One end of the catheter is provided with a lens, and the other end of the catheter is extended into the handle. One part of the instrument tube is disposed in the handle and is connected with the other end of the catheter. The other part of the instrument tube is exposed outside the handle. The linkage unit is disposed in the handle. The controlling unit is disposed outside the handle and is extended into the handle to be pivotally connected with the linkage unit. One end of the cable is connected to the linkage unit, and the other end thereof is connected to one end periphery of the catheter. One end of the tension unit is connected to the periphery of the cable. The tension adjusting unit is provided with adjusting members and connection members.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: CHIA-JUNG LEE, YUEH-YING FAN
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Publication number: 20240122458Abstract: A shaft according to the invention for a flexible endoscope or for a flexible endoscopic instrument includes a first shaft section and a second shaft section arranged on the distal side of the first shaft section, wherein the second shaft section is able to be angled by means of at least one pull element extending inside the second shaft section, wherein the second shaft section has a support structure, and wherein an adapter is arranged between a distal end region of the first shaft section and a proximal end region of the support structure. The invention also relates to a method for assembling a shaft for a flexible endoscope or for a flexible endoscopic instrument, and also to a flexible endoscope and a flexible endoscopic instrument.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Alexander FUCHS, Tobias LOTTES
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Publication number: 20240122459Abstract: According to some embodiments of the invention there is provided a colon cleaning system comprising: a working channel, a vacuum source, a separate vacuum pipe provided alongside the working channel, and a sensor positioned at a conduit connected externally to the working channel, the sensor configured for providing an indication related to pressure within at least a segment of the working channel. In some embodiments, the system comprises a controller configured for controlling one or more parameters of a vacuum induced in the separate vacuum pipe, the parameter determined according to the pressure related indication provided by the sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Motus GI Medical Technologies Ltd.Inventors: Noam HASSIDOV, Eyal KOCHAVI, Tzach ARNON, Koby LULEKO
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Publication number: 20240122460Abstract: There is provided herein a flexible electronic circuit board for a tip section of a multi-camera endoscope, the circuit board comprising a front camera surface configured to carry a forward looking camera, a first side camera surface configured to carry a first side looking camera, a second side camera surface configured to carry a second side looking camera, one or more front illuminator surfaces a configured to carry one or more front illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the forward looking camera, one or more side illuminator surfaces configured to carry one or more side illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the first side looking camera and one or more side illuminator surfaces configured to carry one or more side illuminators to essentially illuminate the FOV of the second side looking camera.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: EndoChoice, Inc.Inventors: Yaniv Kirma, Moshe LEVI, Amram Aizenfeld
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Publication number: 20240122461Abstract: A multi-band imager includes a first light source that illuminates an area of interest during a first time period and a second light source that illuminates the area of interest during a second time period, the second light source comprising a multi-band pass filter, an image sensor capturing first and second images during the first and second time periods. An enhanced image of the area of interest is generated by combining the first image and the second image.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Paul Wickboldt
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Publication number: 20240122462Abstract: Provided in one embodiment of the present invention is a calibration device for an oral scanner, comprising: a casing in which an oral scanner body is coupled to an open upper part; a rotational part rotatably provided with respect to the casing; a reflector part arranged on the central axis of an optical device in the oral scanner body; and a pattern plate part facing the optical device through the reflector part, wherein the pattern plate part is linked with the rotation of the rotational part and rotates in place, and the reflector part moves in a straight line with respect to the oral scanner body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 29, 2021Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: OSSTEMIMPLANT CO., LTDInventors: Hyung Jin KIM, Eun Joong KIM
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Publication number: 20240122463Abstract: Various apparatuses are disclosed (e.g., system, device, method, or the like) for guiding the capture and assessing the quality of an image, including dental images. The apparatuses may use trained neural networks to examine images and provide users feedback regarding image quality. The neural networks may be trained based on images within image groups that have been ranked based on perceived image quality.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 16, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: ALIGN TECHNOLOGY, INC.Inventors: Guotu LI, Chao SHI, Chad Clayton BROWN, Christopher E. CRAMER, Phillip Thomas HARRIS, Adam SILL, Will NEVILLE, Ritvik BANSAL
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Publication number: 20240122464Abstract: A single-operator laparoscope auxiliary operating device is provided, including a laparoscope and universal rotating mechanisms, wherein two universal rotating mechanisms are provided on the laparoscope, each of the universal rotating mechanisms includes a ball sleeve and a sleeve plate, the ball sleeve is slidably sleeved on the laparoscope, the sleeve plate is sleeved in a middle of the ball sleeve, and the ball sleeve is universally rotatable on the sleeve plate; a direction controlling mechanism; a moving mechanism; a supporting mechanism; a connecting frame, one end of the connecting frame is fixedly connected to the sleeve plate close to the lens of the laparoscope, and another end of the connecting frame is fixedly connected to the supporting mechanism; and a foot controller connected to the direction controlling mechanism and the moving mechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Bo TANG, Hailong LUO, Haolong ZHANG, Kun RAN
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Publication number: 20240122465Abstract: A visual field testing method is a visual field testing method of testing a visual field range divided into at least a first partial area and a second partial area, the method including: a step of measuring sensitivities of a plural first test points that are included in the first partial area: and a step of performing a process of estimating sensitivities of a plural second test points that are included in the first partial area and are test points other than the first test points, by using the sensitivities of the plural first test points.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: NIKON CORPORATIONInventors: Chikara NAKAMURA, Taishi AOKI, Teruo HORIKAWA, Hisao OSAWA
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Publication number: 20240122466Abstract: An unmanned wearable apparatus for measuring the refractive error of an eye is disclosed. Said apparatus comprises: a visual acuity testing unit that is configured to measure the visual acuity of a person wearing said apparatus by forming a final image at 6 meters; an objective refraction testing unit that is configured to measure the objective refraction of said person; a subjective refraction testing unit that is configured to measure the subjective refraction of said person; and a control member (110) that is configured to monitor and control the operations of said apparatus. Said apparatus is configured to automatically switch from one test to another. The disclosed apparatus: is portable; is unmanned (can be used without a medical professional's help); and helps save space.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 4, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Maheswari SRINIVASAN
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Publication number: 20240122467Abstract: A method, a device, and a computer program product for determining a refractive error of an eye of a user are disclosed, as well as a method for producing a spectacle lens. The method for determining includes: displaying an image with a spatial modulation to the user; optionally, recording a reaction of the user to a variation of the spatial modulation over time; detecting a point in time at which a perception threshold of the user is reached; and determining the refractive error of the user from the spatial modulation, wherein the image contains a source image with several picture elements, wherein values for an image parameter are assigned to the picture elements, and wherein the spatial modulation is generated such that the values of the image parameter determine the values of a modulation parameter of the spatial modulation in the image.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Alexander Leube, Torsten Strasser, Arne Ohlendorf, Eberhart Zrenner, Siegfried Wahl
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Publication number: 20240122468Abstract: Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide for in-situ intraocular lens (IOL) tilt determination and for providing information associated with the angle of IOL tilt intraoperatively. An example method includes imaging an IOL within a patient's eye via an ophthalmic imaging device, in-situ, after implantation of the IOL within the patient's eye; processing the image of the IOL within the patient's eye to determine an angle of tilt of the IOL; and outputting information associated with the angle of IOL tilt to a user interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Shannon Frances Fisherkeller, Victor Manuel Hernandez, Nanhong Lou, Tobias Jura Rapoport, Martin Gründig, Armin Soltan Zadi
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Publication number: 20240122469Abstract: A virtual reality system for quantifying functional visual capabilities of a user at varying assessment conditions (e.g., varying light, contrast, color conditions), using a head-mountable display. In addition to the high relevance to users with optical conditions, the present embodiments can lead to rapid and simple measurements within the controlled and reproducible testing conditions that virtual reality can offer. The virtual environment system can obtain a selection of a task to be performed. During execution of the task, a virtual environment optical setting (e.g., a modified lighting setting in the virtual environment display) can be dynamically modified. The user can interact with the objects during execution of the task, which can provide an insight into functional visual capabilities of the user. After completion of the task, an output can be generated that quantifies a functional visual capability of the user during execution of the task.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.Inventors: Geraint Iwan DAVIES, Jonas Franz DORN, Bernhard FEHLMANN, Noémie HURST-FISCHER, Angelos KARATSIDIS, Joerg SPRENGEL
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Publication number: 20240122470Abstract: Systems, devices, methods, and kits for monitoring one or more physiologic and/or physical signals from a subject are disclosed. A system including a head mounted display to monitor one or more physiologic signals from the face or head of the subject is disclosed. A method for analyzing an ocular parameter of the subject to determine a sympathetic and a parasympathetic outflow thereto is disclosed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Landy Toth, Robert S. Schwartz
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Publication number: 20240122471Abstract: An apparatus for medical treatment includes a gonioscope having a distal face for placement in proximity to a patient's eye, a proximal face opposite the distal face, and multiple facets between the distal and proximal faces. The apparatus also includes a laser to generate a beam, a scanner to direct the beam through the proximal face of the gonioscope to reflect from a facet into an anterior chamber of the eye, at least one slit lamp to project sheets of light into the eye through the gonioscope, a camera to capture, through the gonioscope, an image of an illumination pattern cast on the eye by the sheet of light. A processor processes the image so as to identify a location of an anatomical structure in the eye, selects targets in the eye based on the identified location, and controls the scanner so that the beam impinges on the targets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Zachary Sacks
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Publication number: 20240122472Abstract: System and method for fully automated end-to-end eye screening with automated medical acquisition and analysis. The system includes an eye imaging device, a mechanism that moves the imaging device, a computing platform that guides the movement mechanism, a user interface, and an electronic display device and/or printer to provide the screening, monitoring, and/or diagnosis report.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Kaushal Mohanlal Solanki, Christian Siagian, Malavika Bhaskaranand, Chaithanya Ramachandra, Sandeep Bhat Krupakar, Nishit Umesh Parekh
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Publication number: 20240122473Abstract: Meta-lens based ocular imaging, near-eye display, and eye-tracking systems are described. The systems can include a single focusing optic and an integrated circuit that provides illumination light and includes an imaging array. The focusing optic includes meta-atoms formed on a substrate. The systems may have no moving parts and achieve imaging or image-projection fields-of-view approaching or exceeding 180 degrees. Because of their low part count, the systems can be robust and have a very small form factor.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Juejun Hu, Tian GU, Mikhail Shalaginov, Fan YANG
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Publication number: 20240122474Abstract: Disclosed is a system for retinal imaging. The type of image to be captured is selected by a user. Corresponding fixation stimulus is displayed on a fixation screen of the disclosed device for the subject to fix their gaze on. The device comprises illumination sources and, illumination optics and imaging optics, a 3-D accelerometer, and a camera. Signal from the 3-D accelerometer, and the video of the eye of the subject captured by camera are used by a computing device that uses AI techniques to vary the position of the fixation stimulus to obtain a stabilized image of the eye of the subject. The position of the fixation stimulus is varied to compensate for the movement of the handheld device to obtain a stabilized retinal image. Once stabilized, the image is captured.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Harshitha Prakash CHIKKATUR, Venkatakrishnan SRINIVASAN, Midhula VIJAYAN, Deepthi Keshav PRASAD
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Publication number: 20240122475Abstract: An ocular alignment system for aligning a subject's eye with an optical axis of an ocular imaging device comprising one or more guide light and one or more baffle configured to mask the one or more guide light from view of the subject such that the one or more guide light is only visible to the subject when the eye of the subject is aligned with the optical axis of an ocular imaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Michael D. Abramoff, Eric Talmage, Ben Clark, Edward DeHoog, Timothy Chung
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Publication number: 20240122476Abstract: The present disclosure provides an apparatus including a lens housing coupled to a lens assembly, a first lens disposed in a first end of the lens housing, a lens holder disposed in a second end of the lens housing, a lens aligner coupled to the lens assembly, and an optical element. The optical element is insertable laterally into the lens assembly to adjust a transverse position of the first lens and the second lens based on a thickness of the optical element to align a first axis of the first lens and the second lens to a second axis of a third lens positioned in the lens assembly for imaging an eye.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: Phoenix-Micron, Inc.Inventors: Jonathan Roy Thorn, Jonathan Scott Carr
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Publication number: 20240122477Abstract: An apparatus for at least one of diagnosing or treating an eye condition can include a goggle enclosure, sized and shaped to be seated on an eye socket of an eye to provide one or more cavities within the enclosure that extend about an entire exposed anterior portion of the eye, a pump, in fluidic communication with the one or more cavities to apply a fluid pressure to the one or more cavities, the pump configured to adjust a fluid pressure within the one or more cavities of the goggle enclosure, and a control circuit, including a data interface to receive data directly or indirectly indicating at least one of an intraorbital pressure, ICP, IOP, or a relationship between ICP and IOP, and based on processing the received data as a feedback control variable, controlling the pump to adjust the fluid pressure within the one or more cavities, the controlling including using further monitoring of the received data to control the pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: John Berdahl, George Tsai, Vance Michael Thompson
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Publication number: 20240122478Abstract: A medical monitoring device comprises a monitoring unit. The monitoring unit comprises a processor, a transceiver in data communication with the processor, and a power supply in electrical communication with the processor and the receiver. The monitoring device further comprises a plurality of wireless electrodes. Each of the wireless electrode comprises an electrode, a transmitter in electrical communication with the electrode, a power supply in electrical communication with the transmitter, and an adhesive operably connected to the electrode. A method of generating an electrocardiogram (ECG) comprises: detecting at least 10 ECG signals through a plurality of wireless electrodes; wirelessly transmitting each of the at least 10 ECG signals from the electrodes to a monitoring unit; and displaying each of the at least 10 wireless signals on a display in real time.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Ana Kelegama
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Publication number: 20240122479Abstract: An imaging device includes a hollow flexible shaft having a central longitudinal axis and an imaging window therein. An optical fiber extends within the hollow flexible shaft substantially along the central axis. A distal tip of the optical fiber is attached to the hollow flexible shaft and aligned with the imaging window so as to transfer an optical coherence tomography signal through the imaging window. A handle is attached to the hollow flexible shaft configured rotate the hollow flexible shaft at speeds of greater than 1,000 rpm.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Peter H. SMITH, Manish KANKARIA, Priyanshu GUPTA, Nicholas J. SPINELLI, Charles W. MCNALL
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Publication number: 20240122480Abstract: An apparatus for sensing abnormality of a breast implant is proposed. The apparatus may include a sensor signal receiver to receive a pressure signal indicating a pressure applied to a breast implant inserted in a body from at least one sensor module disposed on the breast implant. The apparatus may also include a memory to store a predetermined reference pressure value, a predetermined first tolerance, and a predetermined second tolerance. The apparatus may further include an abnormality determining processor configured to determine whether there is an abnormality in the breast implant based on a pressure value indicated by the pressure signal received by the sensor signal receiver and the reference pressure value, the first tolerance, and the second tolerance stored in the memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventor: Jae Hong Kim
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Publication number: 20240122481Abstract: A multimodality system includes first and second modalities, an optical probe, a detector, and a sheath with a known fluorescence phantom, wherein the phantom would be used for calibration of the catheter providing accurate NIRAF values to the user using the sheath phantom to calibrate an optical probe's measured NIRAF signal to the known fluorescence of the phantom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 13, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Emily Chernich, Christopher Brushett
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Publication number: 20240122482Abstract: The invention relates to a method for detecting the state of health of a person, said method having the steps of detecting the body temperature of the person, transmitting the detected body temperature values to an evaluation unit, and evaluating the body temperature values by means of the evaluation unit, the body temperature being detected at a frequency of at least one measurement every 10 minutes. The invention also relates to a system for detecting the state of health of a person, said system comprising at least one sensor for detecting the body temperature and at least one evaluation unit to which the data detected by the sensor are transmitted, the sensor being suitable for detecting the body temperature at least once every 10 minutes and transmitting same to the evaluation unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Jan Wabst, Thomas Krause
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Publication number: 20240122483Abstract: A robotic system includes retrieval of a priori stimulus based on an input that indicates a current health state and a target health state of a user. A set of test stimuli specific for the user is determined and a stimulus device is controlled to provide the set of test stimuli to the user. A set of responses discernible on the body of the user is determined, and a set of stimulus parameters for the stimulus device is calibrated based on the combination of the set of responses, the current health state, the target health state, and a trained AI-based system. A new stimulus is applied to a portion of the body of the user that shifts a condition of the user from the current health state towards the target health state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 20, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Neda Semsar, Arman ROFOUGARAN
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Publication number: 20240122484Abstract: Exemplified methods and systems facilitate presentation of data derived from measurements of the heart in a non-invasive procedure (e.g., via phase space tomography analysis). In particular, the exemplified methods and systems facilitate presentation of such measurements in a graphical user interface, or “GUI” (e.g., associated with a healthcare provider web portal to be used by physicians, researchers, or patients, and etc.) and/or in a report for diagnosis of heart pathologies and disease. The presentation facilitates a unified and intuitive visualization that includes three-dimensional visualizations and two-dimensional visualizations that are concurrently presented within a single interactive interface and/or report.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 23, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Ian Shadforth, Meng Lei, Timothy Burton, Don Crawford, Sunny Gupta, Paul Douglas Souza, Cody James Wackerman, Andrew Hugh Dubberly