Patents Issued in July 16, 2024
  • Patent number: 12035979
    Abstract: A system for tracking the position of a surgical tool manipulated by a surgical robotic system, to determine that the tool is correctly positioned and orientated. Miniature 3-D tracking cameras are mounted on the end effector of the robotic system, one viewing markers on the surgical tool, and the other markers attached to the anatomy part being operated on. The initial spatial position and orientation of the surgical tool on the surface of the anatomy part is measured, and the progress of the surgical tool into the anatomic body part is tracked using one of the miniature cameras. The cameras or sensors are close to the surgical region of interest, and all the mechanical and sensor elements necessary for the system operation are mounted within the realm of the robot. The system thus avoids interruption of communication between a remotely positioned navigation camera and the robot or patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Mazor Robotics Ltd.
    Inventors: Moshe Shoham, Yizhaq Shmayahu
  • Patent number: 12035980
    Abstract: A medical instrument positioning tracking system includes: a bar-type medical instrument which has a bar shape front end part and an identification segment formed on the rear end part; a tracking multi-camera including a plurality of cameras provided at a plurality of locations so that the identification segment can be photographed in a plurality of time points; a display device for displaying an augmented reality image with the medical instrument as an augmented object and also displaying relevant information including location and angle of the medical instrument; and a control device for acquiring, in real time, a tracking image captured by the tracking multi-camera for every frame, estimating a three-dimensional segment by using the acquired image, estimating the actual three-dimensional positioning of the medical instrument by using the location relationship between a pre-measured location of the medical instrument and the three-dimensional segment, and displaying the estimated three-dimensional positioni
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: DECASIGHT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Byung Joon Park, Soo Ho Choi, Tae Hyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12035981
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for controlling a medical instrument are discussed herein. For example, image data can be received from a first instrument that is configured to access an anatomical site via a first access path. The image data can be representative of the anatomical site and a second instrument that is configured to access the anatomical site via a second access path. A visual representation of the image data can be displayed in a user interface and a first directional input signal can be received from an input device. An orientation of the first instrument relative to the second instrument can be determined. Movement of the second instrument can be controlled based at least in part on the first directional input signal and the orientation of the first instrument relative to the second instrument.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Chauncey F. Graetzel, Polly Charlene Ma
  • Patent number: 12035982
    Abstract: Imaging systems and methods may facilitate positioning an imaging device in a procedure room. A 3D image of a subject may be obtained, where the subject is to have a procedure performed thereon. A view of the 3D image of the subject may be adjusted to a desired view and an associated 2D image reconstruction at the desired view may be obtained. A position for the imaging device that is associated with the desired view of the 3D image of the subject may be identified. Adjusting a view of the 3D image to a desired view and obtaining a 2D image reconstruction may be performed pre-procedure, such that a user may be able to create a list of desired views pre. A user may adjust a physical position of the imaging device to obtain reconstructed 2D preview images at the adjusted physical position of the imaging device prior to capturing an image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Globus Medical, Inc
    Inventor: Sean O'Connor
  • Patent number: 12035983
    Abstract: A method for producing a surgical instrument is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a handle, wherein the handle comprises a distal end comprising a shaft interface surface and a first set of magnetic elements. The method further comprises obtaining a shaft, wherein the shaft comprises a proximal end comprising a handle interface surface, a second set of magnetic elements, and a third set of magnetic elements. The method further comprises attaching the shaft to the handle, wherein the shaft interface surface is configured to engage the shaft at the handle interface surface, wherein an attractive magnetic force is configured to pull the handle towards the shaft when the first set of magnetic elements interact with the second magnetic elements, and wherein a repulsive magnetic force is configured to repel the handle from the shaft when the first set of magnetic elements interacts with the third set of magnetic elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Jason L. Harris, David C. Yates
  • Patent number: 12035984
    Abstract: A robotic surgical tool includes an elongate shaft, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft and including a first jaw providing a first jaw extension and a second jaw providing a second jaw extension, and an articulable wrist that interposes the end effector and the distal end, the wrist including an articulation joint rotatable about a first pivot axis, and first and second pulleys rotatably mounted to the articulation joint at a second pivot axis perpendicular to the first pivot axis, the first pulley interposing the first jaw extension and a first joint portion of the articulation joint, and the second pulley interposing the second jaw extension and a second joint portion of the articulation joint. Joining the first and second joint portions secures the first and second pulleys within the wrist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Eric N. Johnson, Jason Alan Hill
  • Patent number: 12035985
    Abstract: Robotic spinal surgery systems and methods include a robotic manipulator with a tool guide and a skin incision tool to be inserted into the tool guide. A navigation system includes a localizer for tracking the patient and a base tracker of the robotic manipulator. A control system registers, with the navigation system, a line haptic object to a vertebra of the patient, the line haptic object being associated with a desired trajectory for the vertebra. In response to a user input, the control system autonomously moves the robotic manipulator to align the tool guide to the desired trajectory. The tool guide is constrained to the desired trajectory with the line haptic object to enable insertion of the skin incision tool within the tool guide to facilitate creation of the incision in the skin at the desired trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventor: Hyosig Kang
  • Patent number: 12035986
    Abstract: A surgical system for manipulating an anatomy includes a surgical tool, a robotic manipulator configured to support and move the surgical tool, and one or more controllers that activate a first virtual boundary delineating a first portion of the anatomy that is allowed to be removed by the surgical tool from a second portion of the anatomy that is protected from removal by the surgical tool. The one or more controllers control the robotic manipulator for enabling the surgical tool to perform fine cutting of the first portion in relation to the first virtual boundary. The one or more controllers control the robotic manipulator for enabling the surgical tool to perform bulk cutting of the second portion of the anatomy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MAKO Surgical Corp.
    Inventors: David Gene Bowling, John Michael Stuart, Jerry A. Culp, Donald W. Malackowski, José Luis Moctezuma de la Barrera, Patrick Roessler, Joel N. Beer
  • Patent number: 12035987
    Abstract: A computer-assisted device includes an articulated arm configured to support an end effector and a control unit. When coupled to the articulated arm and a table, the control unit is configured to detect movement of the articulated arm caused by movement of the table, determine a movement of the table based on motion data received from the table, and drive one or more first joints of the articulated arm based on the movement of the articulated arm and the determined movement of the table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Brandon D. Itkowitz, Paul G. Griffiths, Nitish Swarup, Kamyar Ziaei
  • Patent number: 12035988
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses, and systems for in situ end effector tool changers for a surgical robot are provided. The surgical robot receives information describing user inputs, tools, tool connectors, and data files containing surgical actions for robotic movements from a surgery network. The surgical robot extracts tool connectors for a surgical step in the surgical process and attaches the tool connectors. The surgical robot extracts surgical tools for the surgical step and attaches the tool connectors. The surgical robot extracts a data file containing movements of the end effectors of the surgical robot to perform a surgical action or function. The surgical robot executes the data file to perform the action or function to complete a step in the surgical process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: IX Innovation LLC
    Inventors: Jeffrey Roh, Mihir Patel, Justin Esterberg, John Cronin, Seth Cronin, Michael John Baker
  • Patent number: 12035989
    Abstract: A system includes a robotic drive comprising a plurality of cassettes, each cassette to move an elongated medical device (EMD) loaded therein, and an input module to issue instructions to the robotic drive. The input module includes a first two or more selection buttons to select a first two or more EMDs loaded in respective ones of the plurality of cassettes, a first control actuatable to cause issuance of an instruction to the robotic drive to simultaneously move each of the first two or more EMDs linearly, and a second control actuatable to cause issuance of an instruction to the robotic drive to simultaneously rotate each of the first two or more EMDs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Corindus, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrew Clark, Dino Kasvikis, Steven J. Blacker, Benjamin Hannon, Max Ayers, Alix Dorfman
  • Patent number: 12035990
    Abstract: A surgical robot includes a surgical tool including a bendable joint portion, and a bending tendon connected to the joint portion and configured to bend the joint portion, a tube connected to the surgical tool and configured to accommodate the bending tendon therein, a base housing configured to rotatably support the tube and accommodate the bending tendon that passes through the tube, a bending driver configured to grasp the bending tendon, and translate in a longitudinal direction parallel to a rotation axis of the tube with respect to the base housing, and a rotation driver configured to rotatably support the tube with respect to the base housing, wherein when the tube rotates, the rotation driver is connected to one portion of the bending driver that grasps the bending tendon, and rotates the tube and the bending tendon together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ROEN Surgical, Inc.
    Inventors: Duk Yoo Kong, Un Je Yang, Chang Kyun Kim
  • Patent number: 12035991
    Abstract: A surgical robotic tool used with a surgical robotic system can include cables that effect movement in the surgical robotic tool. A brake in any of these cables can be detected by checking a plurality of conditions. A process can compare a) a tension error against a first threshold, b) a rate of change of the sensed tension of the cable against a second threshold, and c) a rate of change of a cable extension error against a third threshold. If all thresholds are exceeded, the process can disable the respective actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Verb Surgical Inc.
    Inventors: Edgar Ignacio Ergueta Tejerina, Alireza Hariri
  • Patent number: 12035992
    Abstract: Systems and methods for computer-assisted systems using robotic technology are described. For example, this disclosure describes systems and methods that can be used in various contexts such as, but not limited to, minimally invasive computer-assisted tele-operated surgery using robotic technology. The disclosure describes instruments and mechanisms for actuating and controlling the motions of such instruments. The instruments and actuator mechanisms may be used in medical operations and non-medical operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel H. Gomez, Andrew Cullen Waterbury, John Ryan Steger, Alain Sadaka
  • Patent number: 12035993
    Abstract: A robotic surgical tool includes a shaft extendable through a handle, an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft and including a first and second jaws providing first and second jaw extension, a plurality of drive members extending along the shaft and actuatable by the handle, and an articulable wrist interposing the end effector and the distal end. The wrist includes a proximal clevis, a distal clevis rotatably coupled to the proximal clevis, first and second pulleys rotatably mounted to the distal clevis, the first jaw extension being pinned to the first pulley and the second jaw extension being pinned to the second pulley, and a linkage mounted to the jaws. The plurality of drive members terminate at the first and second pulleys and are antagonistically operable to open and close the jaws and articulate the end effector in pitch and yaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Andrew T. Beckman, Charles J. Scheib, Travis Michael Schuh, Benjamin D. Dickerson, Erica Ding Chin, Eric N. Johnson, Jason Alan Hill
  • Patent number: 12035994
    Abstract: An implantable device for monitoring physiological changes in a patient is provided. The device can include a vessel adapted to being implanted within a patient's body; a chamber having a cell layer and capable of being secured to the vessel; a light source for shining light onto the cell layer; and a reader for detecting and/or decoding signals from the cell layer to monitor physiological changes in the patient. The device is capable of engaging in a two-way communication with a second device through transmission of one or more electromagnetic signals through at least a portion of the patient's body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventors: Spencer Z. Rosero, William K. Rader
  • Patent number: 12035995
    Abstract: An implantable medical device comprises a functional device for carrying out a therapeutic or diagnostic function, and a communication device for communicating with a remote monitoring system. The communication device, at a start of initial operation of the implantable medical device, is enabled to establish a communication with said remote monitoring system. In this way an implantable medical device is provided which allows for including the implantable medical device in a remote monitoring while reducing a risk for a patient involved with attending to the patient for activating a remote monitoring function within the implantable medical device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Biotronik SE & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Doerr
  • Patent number: 12035996
    Abstract: An ultra high-resolution near infrared brain imager system includes a modular cap housing closely spaced multiple vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser-single-photon avalanche photodiode array (VCSEL-SPAD) modules, each one of the VCSEL-SPAD modules including a linear VCSEL array and a SPAD detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: BROWN UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Arto Nurmikko, Ning Zhang
  • Patent number: 12035997
    Abstract: A two-by-two pixel array within an image sensor includes a first pixel, a second pixel, a third pixel, and a fourth pixel. A red filter covers the first pixel, a first blue filter covers the second pixel, a second blue filter covers the third pixel, and a green filter covers the fourth pixel. The red filter is configured to allow the first pixel to collect a red component of visible light and prevent the first pixel from collecting blue and green components of the visible light. The first and second blue filters are configured to allow the second and third pixels to each collect the blue component and prevent the second and third pixels from collecting the red and green components. The green filter is configured to allow the fourth pixel to collect the green component and prevent the fourth pixel from collecting the red and blue components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Curtis W. Stith, Jeffrey M. DiCarlo, Changmeng Liu
  • Patent number: 12035998
    Abstract: Endoscopic systems including multimode optical fibers for and methods of interrogating a portion of a body are described. In an example, the endoscopic system includes a multimode optical fiber, a coherent light source positioned to emit coherent light through the multimode optical fiber, and a photodetector positioned to absorb scattered coherent light emitted from the multimode optical fiber and configured to generate a speckled light signal based on the scattered coherent light. In an example, the endoscopic system includes a controller configured to analyze the speckled light signal with machine learning classifier and to generate an identification signal indicative of a characteristic of the portion of the body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Eden Rephaeli, Dimitri Azar, James Polans
  • Patent number: 12035999
    Abstract: An endoscope apparatus includes: an imaging device; a light source device; a first processing circuit; and a second processing circuit. The light source device can emit first light and fourth light having peak wavelengths in a transmission wavelength band of the blue color filter, second light, and third light and fifth light having peak wavelengths in a transmission wavelength band of the red color filter. The light source device emits the third light in a first imaging frame and the fifth light in a second imaging frame. The first processing circuit generates a display image based on any one of a first image group including images corresponding to the third light and the fifth light and a second image group including an image corresponding to the fourth light, and outputs a remaining one of the first image group and the second image group to the second processing circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Takeshi Ito, Satoru Adachi
  • Patent number: 12036000
    Abstract: A method of diagnosing intraocular tumors including illuminating a tissue sample using a pulsed light source resulting in output of heat and thermoelastic expansion of the tissue sample. The thermoelastic expansion of the tissue sample produces propagating waves in ultrasonic frequencies. The propagating waves are acquired using an ultrasound system and back-projection reconstruction, thereby mapping anatomies with optical contrast at ultrasonic resolution to image intraocular tumors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of The University of Michigan
    Inventors: Hakan Demirci, Guan Xu
  • Patent number: 12036001
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting changes in dental tissue by detecting a spectral change of dental tissue by comparing Acoustic Phonon Mediated Optical Scattering (APMOS) spectroscopic data to a baseline signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MSTATT LLC
    Inventors: Brecken Blackburn, Matthew McPheeters
  • Patent number: 12036002
    Abstract: Advanced compression garments and their methods of use, including garments with compression applying straps, and associated sensors that are able to sense the compression applied to an underlying body tissue by the straps. Pressure and/or temperature information from the sensors may be conveyed to a wearer of the garment and/or to another party.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: FIOMET VENTURES, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Rapp, Gary Rapp
  • Patent number: 12036003
    Abstract: A multimodal biometric device is disclosed. An apparatus may include a non-contact imaging system. The non-contact imaging system may include imaging optics, optical illumination optically coupled to the imaging optics, and a configurable body part support to support different body parts at corresponding focal lengths to capture different portions of the different body parts. An apparatus may also include a housing coupled to the imaging optics, the optical illumination, and the configurable body part support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Eliah Aronoff-Spencer, Tom Kalisky, Daniel Johnson, Alex Grant, Steve Saggese
  • Patent number: 12036004
    Abstract: A physiological state index calculation system, a physiological state index calculation method, and a non-transitory computer readable medium for capturing subtle changes in a physiological state of a living body are provided. The physiological state index calculation system includes a band-pass filter that filters cerebral blood flow waveform information obtained from a cerebral blood flow of a living body in at least one frequency band, and a complex number conversion unit configured to convert the filtered cerebral blood flow waveform information into a complex number for at least one frequency band. The cerebral blood flow waveform information converted into a complex number by the complex number conversion unit is an oscillator that reflects a physiological state of a living body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: TOYOTA JIDOSHA KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Keiji Hayashi, Hitoshi Yamada, Yuhei Yamaguchi, Chie Imamura
  • Patent number: 12036005
    Abstract: There is disclosed a vital sign measuring device (VSMD) for obtaining an indication of a person's blood pressure via the person's finger by means of a finger cuff having an inflatable bladder. Blood pressure may be determined without the use of any electromagnetic radiation, such as miniature dynamic light sensing (mDLS). Apparatuses and methods for obtaining an indication of other vital signs, including hematocrit and total protein, are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: ARC Devices Limited
    Inventor: Mark Haig Khachaturian
  • Patent number: 12036006
    Abstract: Systems and methods for training remote photoplethysmography (“PPG”) models that outputs a subject PPG signal based on a subject video clip of a subject are described herein. The system may have a processor and a memory in communication with the processor. The memory may include a training module having instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to train the remote PPG model in a self-supervised contrastive learning manner using an unlabeled video clip having a sequence of images of a face of a person.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: John H. Gideon, Simon A. I. Stent
  • Patent number: 12036007
    Abstract: Monitoring apparatus for monitoring the pulse transit time and/or estimating one or more blood pressure parameters of a subject and the method of use of the monitoring apparatus. The apparatus comprises an upper arm unit for attaching to a subject's upper arm in use and comprising at least one motion sensor, a photoplethysmograph comprising at least one light source and at least one light detector and at least one display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: CURRENT HEALTH LIMITED
    Inventors: Sam Moreland, Stewart Whiting
  • Patent number: 12036008
    Abstract: A near-field sensor method and device for obtaining biomedical information is disclosed. A transmission-line aperture arrangement configured to guide electromagnetic waves and emit near-field fringing energy, is placed near the skin. The transmission line is excited at a narrow-band Gigahertz frequency. The near-field fringing energy emitted by the sensor device penetrates at least partially into the skin and underlying blood vessels, and this energy is partially absorbed and partially phase shifted in a time varying manner according to the changes in tissue physiology. The status of the sensor device is monitored over a plurality of time intervals, and changes in both the phase and the amplitude of the signals passing though the transmission line are used to determine biomedical information such as heart rates, PTT, blood pressure, and glucose levels. Various transmission-line configurations, and various reference transmission-line methods to reduce low-frequency noise, are also discussed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventors: Jun-Chau Chien, Stanley Yuanshih Chen
  • Patent number: 12036009
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to noninvasive methods, devices, and systems for measuring various blood constituents or analytes, such as glucose. In an embodiment, a light source comprises LEDs and super-luminescent LEDs. The light source emits light at at least wavelengths of about 1610 nm, about 1640 nm, and about 1665 nm. In an embodiment, the detector comprises a plurality of photodetectors arranged in a special geometry comprising one of a substantially linear substantially equal spaced geometry, a substantially linear substantially non-equal spaced geometry, and a substantially grid geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Jeroen Poeze, Marcelo Lamego, Sean Merritt, Cristiano Dalvi, Hung Vo, Johannes Bruinsma, Ferdyan Lesmana, Massi Joe E. Kiani, Greg Olsen
  • Patent number: 12036010
    Abstract: A solution for measuring a cardiogram of a user is disclosed. According to an aspect, a portable training computer includes a communication circuitry including a radio frequency antenna and configured to transmit a radio frequency signal through the antenna, a measurement circuitry coupled to the antenna and configured to measure an electric property of the antenna, and at least one processor configured to, in a first measurement mode, detect presence of an object in proximity with the antenna on the basis of the measured electric property, and in a second measurement mode, detect motion of a body of a user of the portable training computer with respect to the antenna on the basis of the measured electric property and compute a cardiogram of the user in the basis of the detected motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Polar Electro Oy
    Inventor: Ville Majava
  • Patent number: 12036011
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus, and a kit including the apparatus and a fluorescence agent are provided for measuring a time-varying change in an amount of blood in a tissue volume, and include exciting a fluorescence agent in the blood, acquiring a time-varying light intensity signal during a pulsatile flow of the blood through the tissue volume, the pulsatile flow having a systolic and a diastolic phase resembling a conventional photoplethysmogram, and processing the acquired signal by applying a modified Beer-Lambert law to obtain a measurement of the time-varying change in the amount of blood in the tissue volume. The instantaneous molar concentration of the fluorescence agent is determined by utilizing a concentration-mediated change in a fluorescence emission spectrum of the fluorescence agent. There is further provided a fluorescence agent for use in the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Robert W. Flower, Robert Anthony Stead, Arthur E. Bailey
  • Patent number: 12036012
    Abstract: A sensor is provided for measuring a flow of a fluid in a physiological environment, such as within a vessel of a human or animal subject. The sensor comprises an interrogation light guide extending from a proximal end to a distal end of the sensor. The interrogation light guide is configured to transmit interrogation light to, and receive reflected interrogation light from, the distal end of the sensor. The sensor further comprises an excitation light guide configured to transmit excitation light to the distal end of the sensor. The excitation light is provided for heating the fluid (directly or indirectly). The sensor further comprises a sensing element located at the distal end of the sensor. The sensing element comprises at least two etalons for reflecting interrogation light back along the interrogation light guide towards the proximal end of the sensor. Each etalon has a respective optical path length and further has at least one reflective surface external to the interrogation light guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: UCL BUSINESS LTD
    Inventors: Adrien Desjardins, Malcolm Finlay, Ioannis Papakonstantinou, Charles Alexander Mosse, Joanna M. Coote, Sacha Noimark, Erwin Alles
  • Patent number: 12036013
    Abstract: A breath analyzer, a system, and a computer program for administering a breath analysis to a donor and recording a breath analysis result. Embodiments of the invention authenticate that the breath analysis was performed correctly, preserves the breath analysis results by communicating with other devices, and presents the breath analysis results by superimposing them on recorded video data. The breath analyzer includes a breath receptor for receiving a breath sample from the donor, an analyzing element for determining a breath analysis result, a communications element for sending information indicative of the breath analysis result to a recording device manager, and a housing for securing the components in a handheld device. The system comprises the breath analyzer, a recording device manager for synchronizing the recordings, and at least one ancillary camera for recording the breath analysis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Digital Ally, Inc.
    Inventor: Stanton E. Ross
  • Patent number: 12036014
    Abstract: A nasal/oral cannula for collecting a flow of exhaled gases and its method of manufacture are disclosed. The cannula comprises an elongated tubular body having a first and a second end portion, a surface and an internal volume; a wall internally disposed within said tubular body, said wall defining a first subvolume of said internal volume in the lengthwise direction of the tubular body; and an inlet through said surface, for introducing exhaled gases into said first subvolume. The first end portion defines an exit port for exhaled gases from said subvolume, and said wall is arranged directly adjacent to said inlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Anders Eckerbom, Robert Zyzanski
  • Patent number: 12036015
    Abstract: A method of detecting, measuring, logging, and tracking a user's consumption of liquid through an electronic wearable on a person's wrist, hand, or other extremity used for consuming beverages is described. In preferred embodiments, the electronic wearable can detect individual sips, the final sip of a beverage, and the type of container the beverage is being consumed from.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventor: Bradley Jaeger
  • Patent number: 12036016
    Abstract: A system for capturing person-related accident data in a vehicle, comprising at least one camera for capturing image data of at least one vehicle occupant, the camera being designed as a high-speed camera, a circular memory for storing the captured image data, and a control unit, which is designed to receive an accident commencement signal. The control unit controls the circular memory and/or the camera in such a way that the storing of the image data is ended at the end time, the end time lying after the receipt of the accident commencement signal by a predefined time interval. The person-related accident data comprise at least the image data stored in the circular memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Inventors: Caroline Bono, Rudolf Rothenbühler
  • Patent number: 12036017
    Abstract: The wearable article comprises a sensing component. The electronics module (100) comprises an (interface 109) arranged to couple with the sensing component to receive signals. A processor (101) of the module (100) is configured to process the signals. The signals relate to the activity of a user wearing the wearable article. The processor (101) is configured to process the signals to determine whether the activity of the user is within a predetermined allowable range. A light source (103) of the module (100) is configured to emit light based on the determination by the processor (101). The emitted light indicates whether the activity of the user is within the predetermined allowable range. The electronics module (100) also comprises a housing. The processor (101) and light source (103) are provided in the housing. The housing is constructed such that light emitted by the light source (103) is visible from the outside surface of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Prevayl Innovations Limited
    Inventor: Michael John Lynch
  • Patent number: 12036018
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and processes for monitoring a workout and for generating improved interfaces for the same. In one example, while receiving activity data for a workout session, a first user interface of a workout application is displayed. While displaying the first user interface of the workout application, user input of a first type is detected. In response to detecting the user input of the first type, a first control affordance to pause receiving the activity data for the workout session is displayed, and activity data for the workout session is continued to be received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Will Chen, Jay Blahnik, Gary Ian Butcher, Jules K. Fennis, David Chance Graham, Lawrence Y. Yang
  • Patent number: 12036019
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for non-invasively measuring blood glucose levels in a biological sample based on spectral data. This includes a light source to strike a target area of a sample, a light detector positioned to receive light from the light source and to generate an output signal, having a time dependent current, which is indicative of the power of light detected, a processor to receive the output signal from the light detector based on the received output signal, calculate the attenuance attributable to blood in a sample present in the target area with a ratio factor, eliminate effect of uncertainty caused by temperature dependent detector response of the light detector, and then determine a blood glucose level associated with a sample present in the target area based on the calculated attenuance with the processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: St. Louis Medical Devices, Inc.
    Inventor: Zhi Xu
  • Patent number: 12036020
    Abstract: A wearable device for non-invasive monitoring of the presence, amount, and/or concentration of an analyte in a sample from a user of the device is described. The analyte is selected to be indicative of or related to a physiological status of a user. Relevant physiological status include hypoglycemia, infection, respiratory infection, urinary infection, gastrointestinal infection, obesity, diabetes, type I diabetes and type II diabetes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: AERBETIC, INC.
    Inventors: Arnar Thors, Eric Housh, Lloyd Cooper, Matt Fitzgerald
  • Patent number: 12036021
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a non-contact fatigue detection system and method based on rPPG. The system and method adopt multi-thread synchronous communication for real-time acquisition and processing of rPPG signal, enabling fatigue status detection. In this setup, the first thread handles real-time rPPG data capture, storage and concatenation, while the second thread conducts real-time analysis and fatigue detection of rPPG data. Through a combination of skin detection and LUV color space conversion, rPPG raw signal extraction is achieved, effectively eliminating interference from internal and external environmental facial noise; Subsequently, an adaptive multi-stage filtering process enhances the signal-to-noise ratio, and a multi-dimensional fusion CNN model ensures accurate detection of respiration and heart rate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: CENTRAL CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Liang Zhao, Sannyuya Liu, Zongkai Yang, Xiaoliang Zhu, Jianwen Sun, Qing Li, Zhicheng Dai
  • Patent number: 12036022
    Abstract: A sensor plaster (116) for the transcutaneous measurement of an organ function, more particularly of a kidney function, is proposed. The sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one flexible carrier element (134) having at least one adhesive surface (138) which can be stuck onto a body surface. Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one radiation source, more particularly a light source (142), wherein the radiation source is designed to irradiate the body surface with at least one interrogation light (162). Furthermore, the sensor plaster (116) comprises at least one detector (146) designed to detect at least one response light (176) incident from the direction of the body surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: MEDIBEACON INC.
    Inventors: Norbert Gretz, Johannes Pill, Daniel Schock-Kusch, Thomas Walter, Jürgen Hesser, Maliha Sadick, Felix Eickemeyer, Jae Hyung Hwang, Christian Schildknecht, Soichi Watanabe, Wolfgang Wach, Thomas Rose
  • Patent number: 12036023
    Abstract: A flexible sensor configured for use in a bladder is flexible and moveable from a first position in which it is configured to not be discharged from the bladder to a second position in which it is configured to be inserted into the bladder. A sensor insertion tool includes an over sheath, a push rod configured to be inserted into a first lumen of the over sheath. The flexible sensor is positioned in the first lumen of the over sheath, the push rod is then inserted partially into the over sheath behind the flexible sensor. The sensor insertion tool is then positioned at a location, such as the opening to the bladder, in which the sensor is to be deployed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Bright Uro, Inc.
    Inventors: Derek Herrera, Bryan Nowroozi, Peman Montazemi, Hamed Shamkhalichenar, Kevin Arnal, Morgan Wendl, Jordan Burich
  • Patent number: 12036024
    Abstract: A system for quantification of exercise and physical therapy includes an anchoring module and an electronics module. The anchoring module is removably attached to an object (e.g., a flexible resistive band) or equipped with a clamping mechanism for removably securing the object. The anchoring module also includes an anchoring-module coupling fixture. At least one of the modules includes a sensor (e.g., a force sensor) configured to generate a signal representative of a user's performance during exercise or physical therapy; a processor configured to receive signals from the force sensor; a computer storage medium storing software code and in communication with the processor, wherein the software code includes instruction for processing the signals from the force sensor to quantify the performance; and at least one electronics-module coupling fixture configured to secure the electronics module to the anchoring module coupling fixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: President and Fellows of Harvard College
    Inventors: Dmitry Popov, Michael Karpelson, Timothy Walsh, Conor Walsh, Ryan Gulland, Alex Beaudette
  • Patent number: 12036025
    Abstract: A bio-electrode includes an electro-conductive base material and a living body contact layer. The living body contact layer includes a water-free resin layer and a permeation layer on a surface side of the resin layer where a living body comes into contact. The permeation layer is permeated with water and a water-soluble salt selected from the group consisting of sodium salts, potassium salts, calcium salts, magnesium salts, and betaines. This aims to provide: a dry-type bio-electrode that enables quick signal collection after attachment to skin, the bio-electrode being excellent in electric conductivity and biocompatibility, light-weight, and manufacturable at low cost, and capable of preventing significant reduction in the electric conductivity even when wetted with water or dried; a method for manufacturing the bio-electrode; and a method for measuring a biological signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jun Hatakeyama, Motoaki Iwabuchi, Koji Hasegawa, Joe Ikeda
  • Patent number: 12036026
    Abstract: Catheters, systems, and related methods for optimized for mapping, minimizing, and treating cardiac fibrillation in a patient, including an array of at least one stacked electrode pair, each electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode, wherein each electrode pair is configured to be orthogonal to a surface of a cardiac tissue substrate, wherein each first electrode is in contact with the surface to record a first signal, and wherein each second electrode is separated from the first electrode by a distance which enables the second electrode to record a second signal, wherein the catheter is configured to obtain one or more measurements from at least a first signal and a second signal in response to electrical activity in the cardiac tissue substrate indicative of a number of electrical circuit cores and distribution of the electrical circuit cores for a duration across the cardiac tissue substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: University of Vermont and State Agricultural College
    Inventor: Peter S. Spector
  • Patent number: 12036027
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure are directed to flexible high-density mapping catheters with a planar array of high-density mapping electrodes near a distal tip portion. These mapping catheters may be used to detect electrophysiological characteristics of tissue in contact with the electrodes, and may be used to diagnose cardiac conditions, such as cardiac arrhythmias for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory K. Olson, Don Curtis Deno
  • Patent number: 12036028
    Abstract: Provided is a bio-signal detection and stimulation device. The bio-signal detection and stimulation device includes a flexible substrate, a stimulation part on the flexible substrate, and a detection electrode part on the flexible substrate. The stimulation part and the detection electrode part vertically overlap each other, the stimulation part includes an organic light emitting diode (OLED), the stimulation part emits an optical signal, and the detection electrode part detects a bio-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute
    Inventors: O Eun Kwon, Chan-mo Kang, Kukjoo Kim, Jin-Wook Shin, Chunwon Byun, Sukyung Choi, Byoung-Hwa Kwon, Sujung Kim, Sooji Nam, Chan Woo Park, Jong-Heon Yang