Patents Issued in September 3, 2024
  • Patent number: 12076154
    Abstract: Apparatus for the assessment of electrophysiological signals obtained from a patient, the apparatus comprising: a housing; a support arch pivotally mounted to the housing, the support arch comprising a plurality of facial contact point supports for supporting contact points on the face of the patient relative to the support arch without supporting the chin of the patient; at least one display screen for presenting a stimulus to a single eye of the patient, the at least one display screen being movable relative to the support arch; and control electronics disposed within the housing for driving the at least one display screen and for amplifying electrophysiological signals obtained from the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Diagnosys LLC
    Inventors: Bruce Doran, Marc Chabot
  • Patent number: 12076155
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for monitoring physiological parameters during a medical interventional procedure involving high intensity/energy radiofrequency electrical currents/voltages applied through a body of a subject, the system including an electrode-based sensor, configured to close an electrical conduction path passing through a body of a subject, and one or more non-electrode-based sensors, a plurality of electrical lines, a monitor, and a filter array including EMI filters mounted at specific locations and characterized by a frequency response curve having a magnitude of an attenuation in a first frequency range (typical of operating frequencies of high intensity/energy radiofrequency medical interventional equipment), which is greater than a magnitude of an attenuation in a second frequency range (typical of the sampling frequencies of the electrode-based sensor and the one or more non-electrode-based sensors), the system being thereby configured for suppressing noise induced by the medical interventiona
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: MEDASENSE BIOMETRICS LTD.
    Inventors: Avi Kayton, Aviem Amossi, Shauli Arazi
  • Patent number: 12076156
    Abstract: An allergy testing device is disclosed. The allergy testing device includes a first applicator, a second applicator, a capture device, and a processor. The first applicator is arranged to apply an allergen to a first predetermined area of a patient's skin. The second applicator is arranged to apply antigen epitopes within a second predetermined area of a patient's skin. The capture device has a projector and one or more cameras. The processor is in communication with the capture device and a drive device that is arranged to move the first applicator to apply the allergen to the patient's skin and to move the second applicator to apply antigen epitopes to the patient's skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Parker Ray Martin
  • Patent number: 12076157
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method with different exemplary embodiments for determining a degree of damage to hair. Said method can comprise the following steps: during the exposure of a hair sample to near-infrared and/or infrared light, recording a spectrum of at least part of the near-infrared and/or infrared light that has interacted with the hair sample, comparing at least part of the spectrum with a spectroscopic calibration model obtained by near-infrared and/or infrared spectra and degrees of damage of a plurality of calibration hair samples, and determining the degree of damage to the hair using said comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HENKEL AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Georg Knuebel, Meike Voss-Klimke, Oliver Seiler, Ludger Buetfering, Asrtid Kroos, Annika Koenen
  • Patent number: 12076158
    Abstract: Systems and methods for an intuitive display of one or more anatomical objects are provided. One or more 3D medical images of one or more anatomical objects of a patient are received. Correspondences between the one or more 3D medical images and points on a 2D map representing the one or more anatomical objects are determined. The 2D map is updated with patient information extracted from the one or more 3D medical images. The updated 2D map with the determined correspondences is output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: Siemens Healthineers AG, New York University
    Inventors: Bernhard Geiger, Michael Schwier, Sasa Grbic, Esther Raithel, Dana Lin, Guillaume Chabin
  • Patent number: 12076159
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes systems and methods of estimating sedation level of a patient using machine learning. For example, the integration of multiple QEEG features into a single sedation level estimation system using machine learning could result in a significant improvement in the predictability of the levels of sedation, independent of the sedative drug used. The present disclosure advantageously allows for the incorporation of large numbers of QEEG features and machine learning into the next-generation monitors of sedation level. Different QEEG features may be selected for different sedation drugs, such as propofol, sevoflurane and dexmedetomidine groups. The sedation level estimation system can maintain a high performance for detecting MOAA/S, independent of the drug used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Sunil Belur Nagaraj, Sowmya Muchukunte Ramaswamy, Michel Maria R. Struys
  • Patent number: 12076160
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and devices provide alarms and alerts in an on-body networked diabetes management system. Methods may include receiving glucose sensor data from a continuous glucose monitor and determining a dosage of insulin delivery based at least in part on the glucose sensor data. The method may include detecting an alarm or alert condition, and sending a wireless communication regarding the alarm or alert condition to a remote user-interface device. The method may include triggering an audible, visual, or haptic alarm or alert on the insulin delivery device unless an acknowledgement of the alarm or alert condition is received within a predetermined period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Insulet Corporation
    Inventors: Bryan Mazlish, Sabine Kabel-Eckes, Shannon Sieber, Jeff Boissier, George Crothall, Yean Wah Chan
  • Patent number: 12076161
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a method for providing an exacerbation risk score for a respiratory disease of a patient. The system measures a heart signal and/or a blood circulation signal of a patient and detects cough events and sneeze events in the measurement data. The cough events and sneeze events are indicative for an onset of a contagion and/or an allergy, which can rapidly exacerbate a respiratory disease of the patient. Thus, the system is configured for providing unobtrusively an exacerbation risk score to the patient and/or to a physician.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Mirela Alina Weffers-Albu, Rita Priori, Declan Patrick Kelly, Huibin Wei
  • Patent number: 12076162
    Abstract: System and method for detecting and monitoring edema in a patient are described. Initially, a patient's tissue is irradiated with light by a light source. A detector collects reflected light from the patient's tissue and generates data associated with the reflected light. A processing device receives the data and reflected light and calculates an intensity of the reflected light. The processing device then determined, based upon the intensity of the reflected light, whether the patient's tissue exhibits any symptoms of edema. Additionally, the processing device can compare a current intensity of the reflected light against historic information to monitor for any changes in a patient's edema level or severity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CHEMIMAGE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shona Stewart, J. Christopher Post, Patrick Treado, Jeffrey Cohen
  • Patent number: 12076163
    Abstract: Devices, apparatuses, and systems configured to assist in the location of an ABTT terminus and then to measure the temperature of the ABTT terminus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Brain Tunnelgenix Technologies Corp.
    Inventor: Marcio Marc Abreu
  • Patent number: 12076164
    Abstract: Some embodiments of pacing systems employ wireless electrode assemblies to provide pacing therapy. The wireless electrode assemblies may wirelessly receive energy via an inductive coupling so as to provide electrical stimulation to the surrounding heart tissue. In certain embodiments, the wireless electrode assembly may include one or more biased tines that shift from a first position to a second position to secure the wireless electrode assembly into the inner wall of the heart chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventors: William J. Drasler, Michael J. Pikus, Roger Hastings, Scott R. Smith, Daniel M. Lafontaine, Douglas R. Saholt, Graig L Kveen, Martin R. Willard
  • Patent number: 12076165
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes a catheter including an insertion tube and a first position sensor, a pusher including a second position sensor, and an expandable assembly including flexible strips disposed circumferentially around a distal portion of the pusher, with first ends of the strips connected to the distal end of the insertion tube and second ends of the strips connected to the distal portion of the pusher, the flexible strips bowing radially outward when the pusher is retracted, processing circuitry to receive a respective position signal from the first and second position sensors, compute location and orientation coordinates for the position sensors subject to a constraint that the position sensors are coaxial and have a same orientation, compute a distance between the computed location coordinates of the position sensors, and find position coordinates of the flexible strips responsively to at least the computed distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Christopher Thomas Beeckler, Vadim Gliner, Assaf Govari
  • Patent number: 12076166
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention may provide automated techniques for signal analysis that may continuously provide up-to-date results that link EEG and behaviors that are important for daily activities. Such techniques may provide automation, objectivity, real-time monitoring and portability. In an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for monitoring neural activity may comprise receiving data representing at least one signal representing neural activity of a test subject, pre-processing the received data by performing at least one of band-pass filtering, artifact removal, identifying common spatial patterns, and temporally segmentation, processing the pre-processed data by performing at least one of time domain processing, frequency domain processing, and time-frequency domain processing, generating a machine learning model using the processed data as a training dataset, and outputting a characterization of the neural activity based on the machine learning model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Newton Howard
  • Patent number: 12076167
    Abstract: A system having a processor obtain a digital hemodynamic data from a hemodynamic sensor, obtain one or more vital sign parameters characterizing vital sign data from the digital hemodynamic data, derive differential parameters based on the one or more vital sign parameters, generate combinatorial parameters using the one or more vital sign parameters and the differential parameters, determine a risk score corresponding to a probability of a future hypotension event for the living subject based on a weighted combination of a plurality of hypotension profiling parameters including the one or more vital sign parameters characterizing vital sign data, the differential parameters and the combinatorial parameters, and invoke a sensory alarm if the risk score satisfies a predetermined risk criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Feras Al Hatib, Zhongping Jian, Sai Prasad Buddi
  • Patent number: 12076168
    Abstract: A system using combined electrocardiography (EKG) and photoplethysmography (PPG) sensing, to determine venous oxygen saturation is described. The system uses averaging of similar pulses based on Prior (or n?1) R-to-R pulse wave duration, and current (or n) R-to-R pulse wave duration for evaluation of the metabolic reserve and/or stress of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: HEMOCEPT INC.
    Inventors: Eric Raman, Kevin Peterson, Iain Hueton
  • Patent number: 12076169
    Abstract: Disclosed in various embodiments of the present invention are a method and a device for measuring a user's biometric information in an electronic device and providing information related to the biometric information. An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention comprises a sensor module, a camera module, a display device, and a processor, wherein the processor can be configured to: execute an application; acquire a user's first biometric information on the basis of the sensor module while the operation relating to the application is performed; estimate a user's health information at least one the basis of the first biometric information, and link the health information with the operation relating to the application so as to display same through the display device. Various embodiments are possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jongin Park, Hwan Shim, Hongji Lee, Taehan Jeon
  • Patent number: 12076170
    Abstract: A method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy is provided. The method includes receiving cardiac data and determining a cardiac index based upon the cardiac data. The method includes determining an increased risk of death associated with epilepsy if the indices are extreme, issuing a warning of the increased risk of death and logging information related to the increased risk of death. Also presented is a second method for determining and responding in real-time to an increased risk of death relating to a patient with epilepsy comprising receiving at least one of arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data and determining an arousal index, a responsiveness index or an awareness index, where the indices are based on arousal data, responsiveness data or awareness data respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Flint Hills Scientific, L.L.C.
    Inventor: Ivan Osorio
  • Patent number: 12076171
    Abstract: In the cover for a blood pressure meter according to the invention, a coupling region that is detachably attached to a bottom surface of a main body is provided on one end. A tray region that is disposed so as to face a back surface of the main body and receives an accommodated cuff belt is connected to the coupling region. A panel cover region capable of covering a front panel of the main body is provided on the other end. A storage cover region that connects the tray region and the panel cover region is provided. In a cover-coupled state where the coupling region is detachably attached to the bottom surface of the main body, the panel cover region and the storage cover region are configured to be openable and closable with respect to the front panel and the tray region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Ogihara, Yoshikazu Inami, So Noguchi, Shuji Tsuruta
  • Patent number: 12076172
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system for imaging a system. The system may be operated to acquire image data of a subject in one or more manners. The image data acquired may be used to various purposes, such as generating an image for display, navigating a procedure, or other appropriate procedures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Patrick A. Helm, Shuanghe Shi
  • Patent number: 12076173
    Abstract: A system and method for creating computed tomography (CT) images includes acquiring or accessing sinogram data and determining a photon count for the sinogram data. The method includes generating unbiased sinogram data from the sinogram data using an unbiased estimator and the photon count and reconstructing a CT image from the unbiased sinogram data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: WISCONSIN ALUMNI RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    Inventors: Guang-Hong Chen, Ke Li
  • Patent number: 12076174
    Abstract: An angiogram is a study of blood vessels where an angiographic chemical contrast agent is injected while a sequence of images (typically x-rays) are obtained. The contrast pattern on the sequence of images provides information about the vascular anatomy and physiology. The discovery that contrast in blood vessels varies at cardiac frequency in magnitude and phase, which may be visualized as a spatiotemporal reconstruction of cardiac frequency angiographic phenomena, enables a set of processes for increasing the signal to noise ratio or equivalently the informational content of an angiogram. In this invention, the organization of cardiac frequency magnitude and phase enables equivalent information on anatomy and physiology to be obtained with less dose of injected chemical contrast agent, less x-ray dose, and/or less navigation of the injecting catheter within blood vessels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: William E. Butler
  • Patent number: 12076175
    Abstract: The disclosure herein relates to systems, methods, and devices for medical image analysis, diagnosis, risk stratification, decision making and/or disease tracking. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are configured to analyze non-invasive medical images of a subject to automatically and/or dynamically identify one or more features, such as plaque and vessels, and/or derive one or more quantified plaque parameters, such as radiodensity, radiodensity composition, volume, radiodensity heterogeneity, geometry, location, and/or the like. In some embodiments, the systems, devices, and methods described herein are further configured to generate one or more assessments of plaque-based diseases from raw medical images using one or more of the identified features and/or quantified parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Cleerly, Inc.
    Inventors: James K. Min, James P. Earls, Hugo Miguel Rodrigues Marques
  • Patent number: 12076176
    Abstract: A dynamic image processing apparatus processes image data of a medical dynamic image that includes a plurality of frame images obtained from successively imaging a subject and that shows a dynamic state of the subject. The dynamic image processing apparatus includes a hardware processor. The hardware processor enhances resolution of at least one or more of the plurality of frame images included in the medical dynamic image to a high resolution and generates a secondary medical image. The hardware processor executes a recording process in which a record is kept to show that the secondary medical image is generated secondarily from the existing medical dynamic image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Takafumi Nanjo
  • Patent number: 12076177
    Abstract: One or more devices, systems, methods and storage mediums for optical imaging medical devices, such as, but not limited to, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) and/or multi-modal OCT apparatuses and systems, and methods and storage mediums for use with same, for performing coregistration and/or selecting a co-registration algorithm are provided herein. One or more embodiments may involve using an image frame, such as, but not limited to, an angiography image frame, to display an imaging catheter path and calculate a reliability of co-registration between multiple imaging modalities. In one or more embodiments, coregistration feature(s) may be available in any image acquisition option(s), such as, but not limited to, any angiography image acquisition option(s), and coregistration may be performed even in a case where a user finishes an imaging pullback, such as, but not limited to, an intravascular imaging pullback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon U.S.A., Inc.
    Inventor: Mie Kunio
  • Patent number: 12076178
    Abstract: An X-ray imaging detector (102) is proposed, wherein the X-ray imaging detector comprises an X-ray converter (103) for converting X-ray radiation into electrical charges. The X-ray imaging detector further comprises a detector plate (104) for collecting the electrical charges generated by the X-ray converter and for generating an image. In addition, the X-ray imaging detector comprises a structured plate (105) for modulating the intensity of backscattered X-ray radiation, wherein the structured plate is arranged at a side of the detector plate opposite the side of the X-ray converter. Moreover, the X-ray imaging detector comprises a data processing system, which is configured for mitigating image distortions caused by backscattered X-ray radiation. Thereto, the data processing system uses information about the structured plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Johannes Koepnick, Hanns-Ingo Maack, Eugen Hermann, Bernd Kuhrmann
  • Patent number: 12076179
    Abstract: A radiation device is wirelessly connected to a radiography device that generates dynamic image data and which controls sequential radiation. The radiation device includes a signal generator and a first determiner. The signal generator generates (i) first pulse signals emitted by the radiography device, (ii) second pulse signals synchronized with a first count value obtained by counting up the first pulse signals, and (iii) a second count value obtained by counting up the second pulse signals. The first determiner determines whether to start radiation based on a delay time which is a difference between a first time point count value and a second time point count value. The first time point count value indicates a time point at which a radiation permission signal is transmitted. The second time point count value indicates a time point at which the radiation permission signal is received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Kentaro Hara
  • Patent number: 12076180
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry calculates, based on a region of interest set in a mammographic image, a first distance from the region of interest to a body surface on the mammographic image, and displays, in an ultrasound image, a marker indicating a position of the region of interest as viewed in a depth direction based on the first distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Canon Medical Systems Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroaki Ishikawa, Satoshi Matsunaga
  • Patent number: 12076181
    Abstract: The present disclosure refers to a system for determining a cortical bone, comprising: an ultrasound transducer which is configured to transmit an ultrasound wave to a region of interest, and to receive a backscattered ultrasound wave which is backscattered from the region of interest, wherein the region of interest comprises a cortical bone; and an evaluation unit which is configured to determine at least one of a pore size, a bone thickness, and a speed of sound in the cortical bone by evaluating the backscattered ultrasound wave. Further, a method for determining a cortical bone is provided. A computer program product which, when executed by a processor, executes the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CHARITÉ —UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN
    Inventors: Kay Raum, Juan Du, Gianluca Iori
  • Patent number: 12076182
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an apparatus for determining the condition of a subject's heart. The apparatus includes a patch adhered to a chest of the subject, the patch further including at least one ultrasound sensor for directing an ultrasound beam to the subject's heart and receiving a reflection of the beam; control circuitry for generating data signals based on the beam reflection indicative of a distance of the heart from the ultrasound sensor; and a processing system for receiving the data signals from the control circuitry and processing the data signals to track movement of the subject's heart over time, wherein changes in the movement correlate to the subject's heart condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Analog Devices, Inc.
    Inventors: Venugopal Gopinathan, Tony J. Akl
  • Patent number: 12076183
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a drive unit connected with an ultrasound element or an image sensor element, and an image processing unit that sequentially generates two-dimensional images of an organ, a blood vessel, or a medical instrument, based on information which is acquired by the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, and that generates a three-dimensional image based on the two-dimensional image. The image processing unit includes a storage unit that stores position correspondence information and/or image correspondence information, and a control unit that determines a position inside the three-dimensional image corresponding to a current position of the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, based on the position correspondence information or the image correspondence information, and that generates display information in real time, in which the determined position inside the three-dimensional image is identified and displayed inside the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ROKKEN INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shimizu, Yasukazu Sakamoto, Ryosuke Saga
  • Patent number: 12076184
    Abstract: An imaging catheter assembly is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging catheter assembly includes a flexible elongate member including a distal portion and a proximal portion; a crown element coupled to the distal portion, wherein the crown element includes an annular ring, a first post and, a second post, and wherein the first post and the second post extend from the annular ring; a first pullwire anchored to the annular ring at the first post and extending along the flexible elongate member from the crown element to the proximal portion of the flexible elongate member; a second pullwire anchored to the annular ring at the first post and extending along the flexible elongate member from the crown element to the proximal portion of the flexible elongate member; and an imaging component coupled to the distal portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: PHILIPS IMAGE GUIDED THERAPY CORPORATION
    Inventors: Maritess Minas, Jeremy Stigall, Princeton Saroha
  • Patent number: 12076185
    Abstract: A portable ultrasound imaging assembly includes a cart or support stand on which is mounted a portable ultrasound imaging system and a handle that can be grasped by a user to move the cart and imaging assembly into the desired position. The support stand further includes a storage bin removably mounted in a readily accessible location directly below the handle. The storage bin is formed to hold a number of large containers, such as cylindrical sanitizing wipe canisters, and has a profile similar to that of the handle. The profile of the storage bin includes a rear facing recess within which the support stand is disposed when the storage bin is secured to the support stand in either a forward or rearward facing direction. The attachment structure(s) for the storage bin is located within the recess to minimizing the profile of the storage bin on the support stand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Ross Christopher Stalter, Emily Elizabeth Siira
  • Patent number: 12076186
    Abstract: A device for measuring reflected ultrasound and optical signals may include: an optical source; an optical assembly comprising at least one lens, configured to focus reflected optical illumination from a target onto a detector; and an ultrasound transducer aligned to transmit and receive ultrasound radiation co-axially with the reflected optical illumination and wherein the ultrasound transducer at least partially obstructs a path of the reflected optical illumination. An obstruction may be distant from a focal spot of the optical assembly. The device for measuring reflected ultrasound and optical signals may be particularly useful for characterizing fluid behind an ear drum to diagnose otitis media.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: OtoNexus Medical Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark A. Moehring, Daniel Kreindler, Charlie Corredor, Chad Jason Macdonald, Dar Bahatt
  • Patent number: 12076187
    Abstract: There is provided an ultrasonic endoscope, in which bending of a signal cable at a time of assembling a distal end portion is alleviated and the signal cable is prevented from being disconnected, and a manufacturing method thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuhiko Morimoto, Tsuneo Fukuzawa
  • Patent number: 12076188
    Abstract: A method of imaging a vessel with a catheter includes positioning an imaging tip in a reinforced terminal section of an outer sheath of the catheter, inserting the catheter into a vessel, and performing near infrared spectroscopy of the vessel by retracting the imaging tip to a retracted position proximally spaced from the reinforced terminal section of the outer sheath, transmitting near infrared light from the imaging tip to the vessel wall via the outer sheath, and collecting near infrared light from the vessel wall at the imaging tip via the outer sheath. Transmitting and collecting may be performed after retracting the cable and while the imaging tip is rotated and translated proximally from the retracted position along the outer sheath. Ultrasound energy may be transmitted to the vessel from a transducer on the imaging tip and received from the vessel at the transducer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: INFRAREDX, INC.
    Inventors: David Barone, Kathleen DeRosa, Sean P. Madden, John N. Beck
  • Patent number: 12076189
    Abstract: A hand-held ultrasound device, for placement on a subject, includes a semiconductor device and a housing to support the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements; a plurality of pulsers coupled to the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements; a plurality of waveform generators configured to drive the plurality of pulsers; receive processing circuitry configured to process ultrasound signals received by the plurality of ultrasonic transducer elements; and a plurality of independently controllable registers configured to store a plurality of different parameters for the waveform generators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: BFLY OPERATIONS, INC
    Inventors: Jonathan M. Rothberg, Keith G. Fife, Tyler S. Ralston, Gregory L. Charvat, Nevada J. Sanchez
  • Patent number: 12076190
    Abstract: The invention provides a method for guiding the acquisition of ultrasound data. The method begins by obtaining ultrasound data from a plurality of data acquisition planes and performing spatial registration of the data acquisition planes. A number of vessels are then identified in each data acquisition plane. A location of a vessel bifurcation is then identified based on the spatial registration of the data acquisition planes and the number of vessels in each data acquisition plane. A guidance instruction is generated based on the location of the vessel bifurcation, wherein the guidance instruction is adapted to indicate a location to obtain further ultrasound data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Shriram Sethuraman, Sergei Y. Shulepov, Sabina Manzari, Nico Maris Adriaan De Wild, Krishnamoorthy Palanisamy, Denny Mathew, Rick Bezemer
  • Patent number: 12076191
    Abstract: Provided is a method for displaying an ultrasonic image, the method comprising: acquiring data by transmitting ultrasound pulses to a subject and receiving echo signals reflected from the subject; detecting microcalcified tissues in the subject by analyzing the acquired data; and displaying an image representing the detected microcalcified tissues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG MEDISON CO. LTD.
    Inventors: Kangsik Kim, Yangmo Yoo, Jinbum Kang, Jungho Kim, Dooyoung Go, Jihye Baek
  • Patent number: 12076192
    Abstract: A coherence indicator of received signals is calculated for pixels with a small amount of calculation, and a high-quality ultrasound image is obtained. A plurality of types of images in which a sound speed for beamforming is changed into a plurality of types are generated. By arranging, in order of the sound speed for beamforming, signal intensities of the pixels at corresponding positions between the plurality of types of images, a change in signal intensities in a direction of the sound speed for beamforming is obtained. A coherence indicator representing coherence of the received signals used for beamforming of the pixels is calculated based on the obtained change in the signal intensities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM Healthcare Corporation
    Inventors: Misaki Hiroshima, Nobuhiko Fujii
  • Patent number: 12076193
    Abstract: Ultrasound imaging and therapy with the same array of capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers is provided. The electronics includes a per-pixel switch for each transducer element. The switches provide an imaging mode driven completely by on-chip electronics and a therapy mode where off-chip pulsers provide relatively high voltages to the transducer elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
    Inventors: Anshuman Bhuyan, Jung Woo Choe, Amin Nikoozadeh, Butrus T. Khuri-Yakub
  • Patent number: 12076194
    Abstract: A surgical instrument comprising a handle, a shaft, an end effector, and an articulation drive system configured to articulate the end effector is disclosed. The shaft and the end effector are rotatable relative to the handle about a rotation joint and, also, the end effector is rotatable relative to the shaft about an articulation joint. The articulation drive system comprises an indicator which is illuminated in a first illumination state when the shaft and end effector are rotated within a first range of shaft orientations and in a second illumination state when the shaft and end effector are rotated within a second range of shaft orientations. The controls of the articulation drive system produce a first set of responses when the shaft and end effector are in the first range of orientations and a second set of responses when the shaft and end effector are in the second range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
    Inventors: Richard L. Leimbach, Michael J. Stokes
  • Patent number: 12076195
    Abstract: A medical holding apparatus includes: an arm including a plurality of links mutually coupled through one of joints, the arm having at least six degrees of freedom due to rotational motion about a rotation axis, the arm being configured to function as a balanced arm with a counterweight and support a medical device; and an arm controller configured to control motion of the arm, in which at least three of the joints in the arm each are provided with an angular sensor that detects a rotation angle of the rotation axis and an actuator that gives the joint an assist force of assisting the rotational motion, and the arm controller controls, based on respective detected results of the angular sensors, the respective assist forces of the actuators such that an amount of force in operation necessary when an operator moves the medical device supported by the arm remains in a predetermined range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC.
    Inventor: Yoshiyuki Kamata
  • Patent number: 12076196
    Abstract: An imaging system, including a head-mounted display worn by a system operator. A marker defines a plane when attached to a human subject. Optically reflective elements are disposed on the marker and on opposing sides of the plane in a non-symmetrical arrangement with respect to the plane. A memory stores a graphical representation of a tool used in a procedure performed on the human subject, and an image of anatomy of the human subject. A camera attached to the display acquires an image of the marker and the tool. A processor analyzes the image to identify the plane and to identify a side of the plane wherein the camera is located, and to render to the display the image of the anatomy of the human subject with the graphical representation of the tool superimposed thereon from a point of view in the identified side of the plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AUGMEDICS LTD.
    Inventors: Nissan Elimelech, Stuart Wolf, Nitzan Krasney
  • Patent number: 12076197
    Abstract: Embodiments of a method for removing a tattoo through patterned trans-epidermal pigment release includes determining first treatment area of skin of a patient through a primary template including primary apertures, marking the first treatment area of skin of the patient along borders of the primary apertures to outline a grid of primary tegulae, and delivering a tattoo removal fluid to the marked first exposed skin. In an alternate embodiment, a template, which may be adhered to the skin, is used during a disruption process to create a structured, patterned procedure to remove skin irregularities. The template has a plurality of needle apertures, an adhesive layer, and a release liner. The release liner may be removed, exposing the adhesive layer, so that the template, with the plurality of needle apertures, may be positioned over the skin irregularity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Rejuvatek Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Timothy N. Turner, Jack H. Savage, Jazz J. L. Wilkey, Julie Gramyk, Jillian Marty
  • Patent number: 12076198
    Abstract: A custom surgical stent for use in a tooth bud ablation procedure that results in tooth agenesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: TRIAGENICS, INC.
    Inventor: Leigh E. Colby
  • Patent number: 12076199
    Abstract: A dental appliance set may include a base frame and at least one attachment. The base frame may be configured to engage at least one of a gum tissue area, a bone structure, an existing detention, and an artificial fixed prosthesis of a patient. The base frame may have an arcuate shaped structure and may not obstruct a surgical site region of an alveolar ridge of a patient jaw. The at least one attachment may be attachable to the base frame using a second connector element selectively engaging the first connector element. The at least one attachment may be configured to obstruct at least a portion of the surgical site region of the top ridge. The base frame and the at least one attachment may be configured to be fully received in the patient's mouth in an assembled orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: IBUR, LLC
    Inventors: Randall C. Groscurth, Shoko U. Groscurth
  • Patent number: 12076200
    Abstract: A method of generating a virtual 3D model of a dental arch is provided. The method includes receiving intraoral scans of a dental arch, determining a first depth of a first intraoral 3D surface in a first intraoral scan, and determining a second depth of a second intraoral 3D surface in the first intraoral scan, and wherein there is a fixed distance between the first intraoral 3D surface and the second intraoral 3D surface in the first intraoral scan. The method further includes stitching together the intraoral scans and generating a virtual 3D model of the dental arch from the intraoral scans, wherein the fixed distance between the first intraoral 3D surface and the second intraoral 3D surface is included in the virtual 3D model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Align Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Ofer Saphier, Avi Kopelman
  • Patent number: 12076201
    Abstract: A dental blank, having an upper surface and a lower surface, constructed of a flesh-coloured material and a tooth-coloured material. The flesh-coloured material and the tooth-coloured material are bonded together. The interface between the materials with elevations and depressions formed in or at the interface extends through an optionally curved plane, which plane is parallel to or oblique to at least part of the surfaces of the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Ivoclar Vivadent AG
    Inventor: Ronny Watzke
  • Patent number: 12076202
    Abstract: An oral suction device provides an oral suction screen over the oral cavity of a patient by providing upper and lower suction wings attached to a manifold. The wings are inserted between the upper and lower lips and arches of a patient, respectively, and serve to capture aerosols which would otherwise be ejected from the oral cavity. A tongue/cheek retractor, also in pneumatic communication with the manifold, serves to extract saliva and other products from the oral cavity while also preventing the tongue and cheeks from ingress of the workspace for the dental procedure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: CAO Group, Inc.
    Inventors: Densen B. Cao, Jack Nichols
  • Patent number: 12076203
    Abstract: A method of making an absorbent insert for absorbing fluid in a root canal. Forming a body in a pre-compressed state prior to use, having a matrix of absorbent material. The matrix of absorbent material swells upon absorbing fluid after the body in the pre-compressed state has been inserted into the root canal. In the forming process, a sheet of absorbent material is compressed to form a compressed sheet, which is cut and shaped to form an insert. Cutting and shaping is by using complementary split mold halves which together define a cavity corresponding to the body of the insert and stamping the compressed sheet with the split mold halves to form the body of the insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Inventor: Nathan Y. Li