Patents Issued in August 20, 2024
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Patent number: 12064211Abstract: Hyperspectral, fluorescence, and laser mapping imaging with reduced fixed pattern noise are disclosed. A method includes actuating an emitter to emit a plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation and sensing reflected electromagnetic radiation resulting from the plurality of pulses of electromagnetic radiation with a pixel array of an image sensor to generate a plurality of exposure frames. The method includes applying edge enhancement to edges within an exposure frame of the plurality of exposure frames. The method is such that at least a portion of the pulses of electromagnetic radiation emitted by the emitter comprises one or more of: electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength from about 513 nm to about 545 nm, from about 565 nm to about 585 nm, from about 900 nm to about 1000 nm, an excitation wavelength of electromagnetic radiation that causes a reagent to fluoresce, or a laser mapping pattern.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Cilag GmbH InternationalInventors: Joshua D. Talbert, Donald M. Wichern
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Patent number: 12064212Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for optoacoustic sensing, wherein an irradiation unit is configured to generate at least one train of periodic pulses of electromagnetic energy, the pulses of the at least one train of periodic pulses exhibiting a pulse duration and repetition rate, and to irradiate a target with the generated train of periodic pulses. A detection unit is configured to detect acoustic waves generated in the target and to generate an according detection signal, the detection signal comprising, for each train of the at least one train of periodic pulses, detection signal components at a plurality of discrete frequencies in the frequency domain, the discrete frequencies being spaced from each other by a frequency spacing corresponding to the repetition rate of the pulses of the at least one train of periodic pulses.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Helmholtz Zentrum Munchen Deutsches Forschungszentrum Fur Gesundheit und Umwelt (GMBH)Inventors: Ludwig Prade, Vasilis Ntziachristos
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Patent number: 12064213Abstract: A medical apparatus having a light emission unit, an ultrasound transducer, an instrument channel, and a hollow needle is disclosed. The apparatus is configured to be arranged at least partly in an examination region of an examination object. The light emission unit is configured to emit excitation light. The excitation light is configured to excite an optoacoustic emission of ultrasound. The light emission unit is arranged at least partly in the hollow needle. The hollow needle is arranged at least partly for movement in the instrument channel. The instrument channel has an opening for bringing the hollow needle and the light emission unit out on a distal section of the apparatus. The ultrasound transducer is arranged on the distal section of the apparatus. The hollow needle is configured to move out at least partly from instrument channel through the opening. The ultrasound transducer is configured to receive the ultrasound.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthineers AGInventors: Stephan Kellnberger, Alois Regensburger
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Patent number: 12064214Abstract: The present invention resides in one aspect in a device for monitoring luminal esophageal temperatures in a patient. The device includes a probe adapted to be inserted into an esophagus of the patient. The probe extends between a proximal end and a distal end. A first temperature sensor and a second temperature sensor are coupled to the probe. An electrode is also coupled to the probe. The second temperature sensor is displaced from the first temperature sensor along a longitudinal axis of the probe. A controller processes information received by the electrodes and the temperature sensors. The controller generates a live and continuously updating three dimensional anatomic map and three dimensional thermal map of the esophagus based at least in part on the information received from the temperature sensors and the electrodes. The thermal map and the anatomic map are displayed on a video monitor.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventor: Joseph Tiano
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Patent number: 12064215Abstract: Systems are provided for generating data representing electromagnetic states of a heart for medical, scientific, research, and/or engineering purposes. The systems generate the data based on source configurations such as dimensions of, and scar or fibrosis or pro-arrhythmic substrate location within, a heart and a computational model of the electromagnetic output of the heart. The systems may dynamically generate the source configurations to provide representative source configurations that may be found in a population. For each source configuration of the electromagnetic source, the systems run a simulation of the functioning of the heart to generate modeled electromagnetic output (e.g., an electromagnetic mesh for each simulation step with a voltage at each point of the electromagnetic mesh) for that source configuration.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: VEKTOR MEDICAL, INC.Inventor: Christopher Villongco
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Patent number: 12064216Abstract: Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for synchronizing physiological signals collected from two or more physiological sensors are provided. Examples of physiological signals may include respiration, heartbeat, electroencephalogram, and gastrointestinal signals.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Nokia Technologies OyInventors: Muneem Shahriar, Durgaprasad Shamain
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Patent number: 12064217Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for remote patient management and monitoring. The patient is monitored with a wireless sensor system connected to an application executing on a patient user computing device. The system continuously monitors physiological parameters, such as, but not limited to, blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, perfusion index, pleth variability index, and/or respiration rate from the photoplethysmograph. The system triggers alarms if the patient physiological data violates thresholds. Care providers review patient data and associated alarm(s) with graphical user interfaces.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Masimo CorporationInventors: Omar Ahmed, Nicholas Evan Barker, Keith Ward Indorf, Sungwhan Cha, Sebastian T. Frey, Hyejin Cho
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Patent number: 12064218Abstract: A feedback device for an acute care provider includes: at least one motion sensor; a haptic output component for providing feedback having a varying haptic pattern to the acute care provider regarding performance of a resuscitation activity; and a controller. The controller can be configured to receive and process a signal representative of performance of the resuscitation activity from the at least one motion sensor, compare the acute care provider's performance of the resuscitation activity to a target performance of the resuscitation activity, and cause the haptic output component to provide haptic feedback to the acute care provider by changing the haptic pattern based, at least in part, on the signal from the at least one motion sensor and the comparison of the acute care provider's performance to the target performance of the resuscitation activity. The device can be adapted to be wrist-worn by the acute care provider.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ZOLL Medical CorporationInventors: Gary A. Freeman, Michael Buonadonna, Guy R. Johnson, Justin R. Carroll, Annemarie Silver, Frederick J. Geheb, John C. Amann
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Patent number: 12064219Abstract: Techniques for determining pulse transit time (PTT) and blood pressure measurements based on stethoscope data are provided. In one example, a system comprises a stethoscope component that monitors a heart and generates stethoscope data representative of a sound wave generated by the heart. The system can further comprise an analysis component that receives the stethoscope data and receives, from a photoplethysmography (PPG) component that monitors an extremity, PPG data representative of a pulse wave at the extremity. The analysis component can determine, based on the stethoscope data, a first time corresponding to closure of a tricuspid valve of the heart and can determine a PTT as a function of the first time and a second time corresponding to the pulse wave at the extremity that is determined based on the PPG data. Blood pressure measurements can be obtained from algorithms with the inputs of PTT or times determined based on the PPG data.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATIONInventor: Kang-Wook Lee
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Patent number: 12064220Abstract: A venous pressure measurement apparatus includes: a pressure controller that causes an internal pressure of a cuff to be attached to a subject, to change; a pressure detector that detects the internal pressure of the cuff; and a processor that causes the pressure controller to change the internal pressure of the cuff, acquires a statistical value relating to a distribution of amplitudes of a plurality of pressure changes corresponding to pressure vibration that occurs in the cuff, and that is detected by the pressure detector, and estimates a venous pressure of the subject based on a change of the statistical value due to the change of the internal pressure of the cuff.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATIONInventors: Naoki Kobayashi, Haruka Morimoto
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Patent number: 12064221Abstract: A blood pressure measurement device includes a curler curving with following a circumferential direction of a portion of a living body where the blood pressure measurement device is attached, a bag-like structure, including two sheet members, and a welded portion, formed by welding edges of the two sheet members, the welded portion, including a plurality of insertion holes, the bag-like structure, being inflated with a fluid and being disposed on an inner circumferential surface of the curler, and a junction means abutting a surface on the living body side of the welded portion and inserted into the plurality of insertion holes to join the welded portion, to the curler.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO. LTD., OMRON CORPORATIONInventors: Tomoyuki Nishida, Hirokazu Tanaka, Noboru Kohara, Shinji Mizuno
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Patent number: 12064222Abstract: Provided is a blood pressure measurement device including a curler including a cover portion that fixes a device body to a hand back side of the wrist, a pressing cuff including a first bag-like structure and a first flow path body which is integrally formed with the first bag-like structure by joining two sheet members forming the first bag-like structure facing the curler and is fluidly connecting a pump and the first bag-like structure, a sensing cuff including a second bag-like structure and a second flow path body which is integrally formed with the second bag-like structure by joining two sheet members forming the second bag-like structure and is including one end disposed on the wrist side of the cover portion, and a tensile cuff including a third bag-like structure.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.Inventors: Takashi Ono, Yoshihiko Sano, Masaki Harada, Takayuki Matsuoka, Takanori Nishioka
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Patent number: 12064223Abstract: An assembly of at least one radiation detector, at least one radiation emitter and a housing configured to be positioned inside the ear canal of a person or animal, the detector(s) and emitter(s) being provided in or on the housing, the emitter(s) being configured to emit radiation away from the housing and the detector(s) being configured to receive radiation directed toward the housing. No overlap may be provided between the field of view of the radiation detector(s) and the emitter(s), such as by providing a blocking element.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SONION NEDERLAND B.V.Inventors: Alwin Fransen, Nicolaas Maria Jozef Stoffels, Paul Christiaan van Hal, Sietse Jacob van Reeuwijk, Raymond Mögelin
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Patent number: 12064224Abstract: An electronic device including optical sensing with a concentric architecture and methods for operation thereof is disclosed. The concentric architecture can include light detector(s) arranged in a concentric manner around light emitter(s). In some examples, at least one light emitter can be located in the center of the device, and each light detector can be located the same separation distance from the light emitter. Each light detector can be arranged such that the separation distance from the centrally located light emitter can be greater than the separation distance from another light emitter. Examples of the disclosure further include a selective transparent layer overlaying the light detector(s). The selective transparent layer can include section(s) transparent to a first wavelength range and non-transparent to a second wavelength ranges. In some examples, the selective transparent layer can further include section(s) transparent to the second wavelength range.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ueyn L. Block, Guocheng Shao, Itaru L. Hiromi, Mathieu Charbonneau-LeFort, Tobias J. Harrison-Noonan
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Patent number: 12064225Abstract: A pressure sensor configured for biological pressure measurement at a distal end portion of an elongated member comprises a dissolvable hydrophilic material coated on a surface of the pressure sensor. A guide wire for biological pressure measurement may include a tube extending along a longitudinal axis of the guide wire; and a pressure sensor for biological pressure measurement, at least a portion of the pressure sensor being mounted within the tube. The pressure sensor comprises a pressure sensor membrane facing a top side of the tube. A circumferential wall of the tube includes at least six openings: a first distal opening, a second distal opening located on a right side of the tube, a third distal opening located on a left side of the tube, a first proximal opening, a second proximal opening located on a right side of the tube, and a third proximal opening located on a left side of the tube.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ST. JUDE MEDICAL COORDINATION CENTER BVBAInventors: Shawn Boye, Fredrik Mahlin, Stefan Tiensuu, Niklas Borg, Johan Mattsson, Johan Grundin, Mats Hilmersson, Sara Sundler, Dean Hacker, Ryan Cerepak
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Patent number: 12064226Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating neuromodulation via hemodynamic responses are disclosed herein. A system configured in accordance with embodiments of the present technology can include, for example, a neuromodulation catheter comprising an elongated shaft having a distal portion, and a plurality of electrodes spaced along a distal portion. The system can further include a controller communicatively coupled to the electrodes. The controller can be configured to apply first and second stimuli at and/or proximate to a target site within a blood vessel before and after delivering neuromodulation energy to the target site, and detect, via at least one of the electrodes, vessel impedance resulting from the first and second stimuli to determine a baseline impedance and a post-neuromodulation impedance. The controller can further be configured to assess the efficacy of the neuromodulation based, at least in part, on a comparison of the baseline impedance and the post-neuromodulation impedance.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Medtronic Ireland Manufacturing Unlimited CompanyInventors: Douglas Hettrick, Avram Scheiner
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Patent number: 12064227Abstract: A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for automatic determination of b-value difference from diffusion-weighted (DW) images. The mechanism receives a series of images wherein a first image has a first b-value and a second image has an unknown b-value. The mechanism applies a generative adversarial network (GAN) model to estimate a difference between b-values in the series of images. The mechanism determines a b-value for the second image based on the first b-value and the estimated difference between b-values.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Amin Katouzian, Marwan Sati, Arkadiusz Sitek, Benedikt Graf, Aly Mohamed, Kourosh Jafari-Khouzani, Frederic Commandeur, Omid Bonakdar Sakhi
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Patent number: 12064228Abstract: An apparatus for detecting relative positioning of medical devices located within a human body, the apparatus comprising an inner elongate member comprising a plurality of electrodes and a first sensor member, where the first sensor member is located a known distance from each of the plurality of electrodes, and an outer elongate member comprising a first sensor, and an outer sensor member located between the first sensor and an inner wall of the outer elongate member, where the inner elongate member is configured to move within the outer elongate member and the first sensor is configured to sense a signal generated by movement of the inner elongate member relative to the outer elongate member, and a position detection module including an electronic control unit configured to detect a position of the first sensor member relative to the first sensor based on the signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ST. JUDE MEDICAL, CARDIOLOGY DIVISION, INC.Inventors: Ryan K. Buesseler, Troy T. Tegg, Kevin Edmunds
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Patent number: 12064229Abstract: A surgical tool having an electromagnetic (EM) sensor component is provided. The surgical tool has a flexible shaft portion. Additionally, the surgical tool has a rigid portion attached to the flexible shaft portion. The rigid portion comprises at least one EM sensor within the rigid portion. The at least one EM sensor comprises an extended core portion surrounded by a coil. Additionally, the at least one EM sensor generates a change in voltage when exposed to an electromagnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Auris Health, Inc.Inventors: Christopher Sramek, Gregory J. Kintz, Enrique Romo, Nahid Sidki, Alan Yu
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Patent number: 12064230Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining at least one state variable of the organism of at least one farm animal, wherein at least one probe device for measurement of at least one physical parameter is disposed in the gastro-intestinal tract of the farm animal and at least one evaluation unit is disposed outside the gastro-intestinal tract of the farm animal. The method performs the following steps: determining at least one first physical parameter by the probe device; converting the first physical parameter into a first state variable of the organism of the farm animal in a probe control unit of the probe device; transmitting the first state variable by the probe device to the evaluation unit; and converting the first state variable into a second state variable in the evaluation unit.Type: GrantFiled: November 13, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: smaXtec animal care GmbHInventors: Michael Astl, Philipp Kulich, Stefan Brandstätter, Manuel Frech, Matthias Wutte, Stefan Rosenkranz
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Patent number: 12064231Abstract: A respiratory gas flow coupling includes a device connector having a female receptacle or male nipple with a side-oriented leak path. A patient accessory connector has a male nipple or female receptacle adapted to connect with the female receptacle or male nipple of the device connector. The patient accessory connector seals the side-oriented leak path of the female receptacle or male nipple of the device connector when the patient accessory connector is connected with the device connector. The side-oriented leak path is disposed at a position such that a shorter male nipple or female receptacle of an incompatible patient accessory connector which is shorter than the male nipple of the patient accessory connector does not seal the side-oriented leak path when the incompatible patient accessory connector with the shorter male nipple is connected with the device connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventor: Ashish Mishra
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Patent number: 12064232Abstract: Systems and methods for prompting a user to perform an exercise and monitoring the exercise are provided. Multiple independent sensors or sensor systems may be used to calculate energy expenditure. Various criteria may be used to manually or automatically select the independent sensor or sensor system or combination that will be used with the energy expenditure calculations.Type: GrantFiled: January 20, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NIKE, Inc.Inventors: Adriana Guerrero, Steven H. Walker, Aaron B. Weast
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Patent number: 12064233Abstract: A smart monitoring system comprising a plurality of sensor devices coupled to appliances and fixtures within a dwelling environment, where at least one of the plurality of sensor devices comprises sensor elements including an accelerometer. The system further comprising a computing device operative to receive event signals from the plurality of sensor devices, identify a possible fall event from one or more of the plurality of sensor devices based on the event signals, sample sensor data from one or more of the plurality of sensor devices wherein the sensor data includes measurements of movement. The computer device is further operative to determine a fall has occurred based on the sampled sensor data, sample additional sensor data from the one or more of the plurality of sensor devices for additional motion at a period of time subsequent to the possible fall event, and determine a recovery from the fall based on the additional sensor data.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CareView Communications, Inc.Inventors: Steven Gail Johnson, Derek del Carpio, James M. Fathman
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Patent number: 12064234Abstract: A method of determining a CRF level for a user of a fitness tracking system includes receiving activity data from at least one activity sensor carried by the user during a number of workouts, the activity data including distance data for each of the number of workouts, and then generating workout data based on the activity data. The method further includes storing the workout data in a memory, the memory further including demographic data for the user. When the an attribute of the workout data is less than a threshold number, the method includes determining a first CRF level for the user based on a first CRF model. When the attribute of the workout data is greater than the threshold number, the method includes determining a second CRF level for the user based on a second CRF model.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Under Armour, Inc.Inventors: Michael Mazzoleni, Jeffrey Allen, F. Grant Kovach, Jeffrey Knight, Matthew Trexler
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Patent number: 12064235Abstract: A method for automatically assessing information processing speed in a test subject is disclosed. In the inventive method, a first qualimetric activity parameter for sensorial transmission, cognition and motoric output activity is determined and a second qualimetric activity parameter for sensorial transmission and motoric output activity is determined. A third qualimetric activity parameter for cognition is determined by comparing the first and the second qualimetric activity parameters to each other, and the information processing speed in the test subject is assessed based on the first, second and third qualimetric activity parameters. The information processing speed can be determined by comparing the determined qualimetric activity parameters to a reference and the subject's cognitive impairment can then be determined from the processing speed. The inventive method can be computer implemented. A mobile device or system for carrying out the disclosed methods is also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Hoffman La Roche Inc.Inventors: Mike Baker, Shibeshih Mitiku Belachew, Christian Gossens, Michael Lindemann, Jörg Sprengel
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Patent number: 12064236Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for continuous glucose monitoring. More particularly, the methods, systems, and devices describe a working electrode with a GOx sensor and a background electrode in which the background electrode has no GOx sensor. The system may then compare the first signal and the second signal to detect ingestion of a medication by the user. The system may generate a sensor glucose value based on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Soroush Hossein Yazdi, Melissa Tsang, Ellis Garai, Sadaf S. Seleh, Steven Lai, Luis A. Torres, Bradley Petkus, Xin Heng, Zhenzhong Sun, Akhil Srinivasan, Tyler R. Wong
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Patent number: 12064237Abstract: Determination system including: a computing device (i) obtaining information related to an eye of a target person from a plurality of data sources and (ii) making a determination of a predetermined matter related to the target person based on at least part of the information. The plurality of data sources include two or more of a sensor included in a contact lens of the target person, a sensor included in a storage container of the contact lens, a measurement device which carries out measurement related to the eye of the target person, tear fluid of the target person, a storage solution of the contact lens and, a diagnostic process of the target person.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Menicon Co., Ltd.Inventors: Mouad Lamrani, Stephen D. Newman, Sami Antero Lakka
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Patent number: 12064238Abstract: A continuous blood glucose measurement body attachment unit is manufactured in an assembled state in an applicator so as to minimize additional operations, such that the body attachment unit can be attached to the body with only a simple operation of the applicator. The body attachment unit has a wireless communication chip so as to be capable of communicating with an external terminal, thereby enabling simple and convenient usage without an additional operation in which a separate transmitter must be connected and enabling maintenance to be more easily performed, and after the body attachment unit is attached to the body, an operation starts by the control of a user, such that an operation start time point can be adjusted to an appropriate time point according to the needs of the user, and an operation can start in a stabilized state, such that blood glucose can be more accurately measured.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: I-SENS, INC.Inventors: Kyung Chul Chae, Hyun Ho Choi, Goang Yel Ryu, Ji Hoon Wang, Young Jea Kang
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Patent number: 12064239Abstract: Methods of diagnosing and/or monitoring tuberculosis (TB) in a subject by analyzing a test sample comprising at least one volatile organic compound (VOC) or semi-volatile organic compound (SVOC) emitted or excreted from the skin of the subject. The test sample can be analyzed by a sensing unit comprising nanomaterials- and/or polymer-based sensors. Further provided is a skin-mountable device comprising a fixing unit and said sensing unit. Also discloses a method of diagnosing and/or monitoring tuberculosis, comprising analyzing specific skin-emitted VOCs or SVOCs, which are indicative of tuberculosis in a subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION LIMITEDInventors: Hossam Haick, Rotem Vishinkin
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Patent number: 12064240Abstract: A noninvasive physiological sensor can include a first body portion and a second body portion coupled to each other and configured to at least partially enclose a user's finger. The sensor can further include a first probe coupled to one or more emitters and a second probe coupled to a detector. The first probe can direct light emitted from the one or more emitters toward tissue of the user's finger and the second probe can direct light attenuated through the tissue to the detector. The first and second probes can be coupled to the first and second body portions such that when the first and second body portions are rotated with respect to one another, ends of the first and second probes can be moved in a direction towards one another to compress the tissue of the user's finger.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Willow Laboratories, Inc.Inventors: Hung The Vo, Kevin Hughes Pauley, Cristiano Dalvi, Sean Merritt, Jesse Chen, Jeroen Poeze, Ferdyan Lesmana, Ruiqi Long
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Patent number: 12064241Abstract: A sleeve or sheath includes a body having a top opening. The body covers a handheld oximeter probe or a portion of the probe. The sleeve has a shape that approximately matches the oximeter probe or portion of the probe, which is covered by the sleeve. The sleeve has a top opening that allows a user to slide the oximeter probe into the sleeve. The sleeve is transparent to radiation emitted and collected by the oximeter probe. The sleeve is formed of a material that prevents patient tissue, fluid, viruses, bacteria, and fungus from contacting the covered portions of the oximeter probe. The sleeve leaves the probe relatively sterile after use so that little or no clearing of the probe is required for a subsequent use, such as when the probe is covered with a new, unused sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: February 21, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ViOptix, Inc.Inventors: Mark Lonsinger, Scott E. Coleridge, Kate LeeAnn Bechtel, William Welch
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Patent number: 12064242Abstract: A photometry device can include a first to emit light to a target in response to a first current through the first LED, a second LED to emit light to the target in response to a second current through the second LED, and an inductor, coupled to the first and second LEDs, to store energy associated with at least one of the first and second currents.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Analog Devices International Unlimited CompanyInventors: John Jude O'Donnell, Colin G. Lyden, Michael C. W. Coln
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Patent number: 12064243Abstract: A disposable biosensor that includes a sensing surface having at least a working electrode portion and a reference electrode portion, a first reagent disposed on the working electrode portion containing a NAD(P)-dependent dehydrogenase, NAD(P)+, diaphorase, and an oxidized form of a redox mediator forming a working electrode, and a reference electrode material disposed on the reference electrode portion forming a reference electrode.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: NOVA BIOMEDICAL CORPORATIONInventors: Jianhong Pei, Joseph Bedard, Aaron Tram, Samantha Mosley, Chung Chang Young
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Patent number: 12064244Abstract: An inventive medical system has a housing with a first guiding surface. A preassembled module is received in the housing. The module includes electronics electrically connected to an analytical sensor, an insertion component configured for inserting the analytical sensor into body tissue of a user and a sterility cap at least partially surrounding the insertion component. The module has a second guiding surface. A protective cap is removably connected to the housing and covers the preassembled module. The protective cap is removable from the housing by pulling the protective cap from the housing. The first guiding surface guides the protective cap during the pulling of the protective cap from the housing and the second guiding surface guides the sterility cap during pulling the sterility cap from the insertion component. The length of the first guiding surface exceeds the length of the second guiding surface.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventor: Ahmet Konya
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Patent number: 12064245Abstract: An inventive medical system has a housing with a first guiding surface. A preassembled module is received in the housing. The module includes electronics electrically connected to an analytical sensor, an insertion component configured for inserting the analytical sensor into body tissue of a user and a sterility cap at least partially surrounding the insertion component. The module has a second guiding surface. A protective cap is removably connected to the housing and covers the preassembled module. The protective cap is removable from the housing by pulling the protective cap from the housing. The first guiding surface guides the protective cap during the pulling of the protective cap from the housing and the second guiding surface guides the sterility cap during pulling the sterility cap from the insertion component. The length of the first guiding surface exceeds the length of the second guiding surface.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2023Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventor: Ahmet Konya
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Patent number: 12064246Abstract: A method for determining a driving intention of a user in a vehicle using electroencephalography (EEG) signals, comprising: acquiring (100) a plurality of EEG signals on a user in the vehicle, determining (101, . . . , 104) a plurality of features of the EEG signals, for each feature of the EEG signals, performing (111, . . . , 114?) a respective preliminary soft classification process, so as to obtain a plurality of preliminary soft predictions of driving intention each based on a feature of the EEG signals, performing (120) a soft classification process based on the plurality of preliminary soft predictions so as to obtain the driving intention of the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2017Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignees: TOYOTA MOTOR EUROPE, CAMLIN ITALY S.R.L.Inventors: Jonas Ambeck-Madsen, Luca Ascari, Luca Kubin, Marcello Mastroleo, Maria Del Vecchio, Roberto Ugolotti
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Patent number: 12064247Abstract: A system for detecting unsafe equipment operation conditions using physiological sensors includes a plurality of wearable physiological sensors, each physiological sensor of the plurality of wearable physiological sensors configured to detect at least a physiological parameter of an operator of an item of equipment, and a processor in communication with the at least a physiological sensor and designed and configured to determine an equipment operation parametric model, wherein the equipment operation parametric rule relates physiological parameter sets to equipment operation requirements, detect using the equipment operation parametric model and the plurality of physiological parameters, a violation of an equipment operation requirement, and generate a violation response action in response to detecting the violation.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SPOTLIGHT LABSInventors: Bradford R Everman, Brian Scott Bradke
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Patent number: 12064248Abstract: Proposed is system and method for determining a driver's fatigue to promote safe driving by determining the driver's fatigue according to a change in a brain wave of a driver during driving of a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HYUNDAI MOBIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Hyun Jun Lim
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Patent number: 12064249Abstract: A stimulation electrode assembly configured to be positioned relative to a patient for an operative procedure is disclosed. The stimulation electrode may be a connection or self-contained component to contact a portion of a nerve. The stimulation electrode may provide or receive a signal to and/or from the nerve to assist in testing integrity of the nerve.Type: GrantFiled: July 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.Inventors: Matthew L. Cantwell, Bryan L Courtney, David C. Hacker, Kevin L McFarlin
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Patent number: 12064250Abstract: Apparatus, including an enclosure having a base and a cover with respective conductive layers. The conductive layers connect to form a shield attenuating electromagnetic radiation originating outside the enclosure in a range of 10 kHz-100 kHz by at least 20 dB within the enclosure. An adapter circuit within the enclosure processes electrophysiological signals to generate an output signal. A first connector passing through the enclosure connects to a probe to receive the electrophysiological signals and convey them to the adapter circuit. A second connector passing through the enclosure receives the output signal from the adapter circuit and conveys it to a console. A control input receives a control signal indicative of a frequency within the range, and a sensing circuit senses a magnetic field within the enclosure and outputs a warning signal when the magnetic field at the frequency indicated by the control signal exceeds a preset threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 28, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.Inventors: Yael Buchnik, Vadim Gliner, Uriel Hod
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Patent number: 12064251Abstract: A system and method for non-invasively generating a report of cardiac electrical activities of a subject includes determining, using cardiac electrical activation information, equivalent current densities (ECDs). The ECDs are assembled into time-course ECD information and a spectrum of the time-course ECD information is analyzed to determine peaks for spectral characteristics of atrial fibrillation (AF). The spectral characteristics of AF are correlated with potential electrical sources of the AF and a report is generated indicating the potential electrical sources of the AF spatially registered with the medical imaging data.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTAInventors: Bin He, Zhaoye Zhou
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Patent number: 12064252Abstract: An electroanatomical mapping system can map electrical activation of tissue, and in particular create a slow conduction map, using a plurality of electrophysiology data points, each including local activation timing information, by computing a slow conduction metric for each point using the local activation timing information. The slow conduction metric can be used to classify points as no conduction points, slow conduction points, and normal conduction points, and the results can be graphically expressed, including as an animated representation of an activation wavefront propagating along a three-dimensional anatomical surface model.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.Inventors: Mark Hagfors, Travis Dahlen, Daniel R Starks
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Patent number: 12064253Abstract: A method for mapping sweat production from the human skin, said method comprising the application of a polydiacetylene (PDA) prepared from a derivative of a conjugated diynoic acid having at least 18 carbon atoms, wherein the PDA changes colour when exposed to sweat, but does not change colour when exposed to pure water.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: CONOPCO, INC.Inventors: Tammie Rose Barlow, Susan Bates, David Mark Haddleton, Ezat Khoshdel, Gavin William Kirby
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Patent number: 12064254Abstract: A hair condition-determining device can have a device body having at least one first region and one second region, wherein the first region and the second region are designed in such a way that the hair of the user can be moved between the first region and the second region, at least one optional light source arranged in or on the device body for illuminating the hair of the user, at least one optical sensor arranged in or on the device body for sensing light that has been emitted by the light source and has interacted with the hair and/or ambient light that has interacted with the hair, and an electronic circuit device arranged in or on the device body, wherein the electronic circuit device is coupled to the optical sensor in order to receive the detected light.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2018Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAAInventor: Philippe Blank
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Patent number: 12064255Abstract: Apparatus and methods provide compliance management tools such as for respiratory pressure therapy. In some versions, a respiratory pressure therapy system may include one or more processors, such as of a data server, configured to communicate with a computing device and/or a respiratory pressure therapy device. The respiratory pressure therapy device may be configured to deliver respiratory pressure therapy to a patient for a session. The computing device may be associated with the patient. The processor(s) may be further configured to compute a therapy quality indicator of the session from usage data relating to the session. The therapy quality indicator may be a number derived from contributions of a plurality of usage variables for the session in the usage data. The processor(s) may be further configured to present, such as by transmitting, the therapy quality indicator to the computing device. The therapy quality indicator may promote patient compliance.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: ResMed Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Peter Armitstead, Mark David Buckley, Michael Waclaw Colefax, Susan Robyn Lynch, Dion Charles Chewe Martin, Gregory Robert Peake, Dinesh Ramanan, Jamie Graeme Wehbeh, Natalie Zotelo
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Patent number: 12064256Abstract: Systems, methods and devices for controlled sympathectomy procedures for neuromodulation in the treatment of subjects having neoplastic conditions are disclosed. Systems, methods, and devices for interventionally treating a cancerous tumor and cancer related pain are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Autonomix Medical, Inc.Inventors: Landy Toth, Robert S. Schwartz
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Patent number: 12064257Abstract: Disclosed is a device for providing resuscitation or suspended state through redistribution of cardiac output to increase supply to the brain and heart for a patient, the device comprising an electrically controllable redistribution component in the form of a catheter, which is attachable to the patient and being configured to interact with the patient to provide redistribution of the cardiac output to increase supply to the brain and heart, the redistribution component following a predefined reaction pattern based on an electrical signal, and computer means configured to: receive a patient data which identifies physiological and/or anatomical characteristics of the patient; and provide the electrical signal for the redistribution component based on the patient data or a standard response. The device also comprises means for detection of blood vessels and motorized means for introduction of the catheter into an artery.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2020Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Neurescue ApSInventor: Habib Frost
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Patent number: 12064258Abstract: A method for classifying an ostomy condition is disclosed, the method comprising obtaining image data; determining one or more ostomy representations including a first ostomy parameter based on the image data; and outputting the first ostomy parameter, wherein the method comprises transforming the image data, and wherein determining the one or more ostomy representations based on the image data comprises determining the first ostomy parameter based on the transformed image data.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2019Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Coloplast A/SInventor: Niels Kristian Maekinen Andersen
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Patent number: 12064259Abstract: A prosthesis for monitoring a characteristic of flow includes a first tubular prosthesis having a lumen and a sensor for detecting the characteristic of flow through the lumen. The sensor may be covered with another tubular prosthesis or by a layer of material in order to insulate the sensor from the fluid flow. A pocket may be formed between the tubular prosthesis and the adjacent layer of material or prosthesis and the sensor may be disposed in the pocket.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: Alio, Inc.Inventors: David John Kuraguntla, Samit Kumar Gupta, Robert Lawrence Rushenberg
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Patent number: 12064260Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a preferred fitness state of a use are disclosed. The system includes at least a sensor that detects at least a biological parameter of a user and a fitness state soring module that generates a current user fitness state using machine-learning and the at least a biological parameter. Methods of providing a preferred fitness state of a user include detecting at least a biological parameter of a user, determining by a fitness state sorting module a current user fitness state and determining a user specific recommendation by the fitness state sorting module.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2022Date of Patent: August 20, 2024Assignee: SUMMIT INNOVATIONS GROUP, LLCInventor: Trungram Gyaltrul Sherpa