Patents Issued in September 24, 2024
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Patent number: 12097345Abstract: Venous infusion catheter assemblies and methods of use are described herein. A catheter assembly may comprise an elongated body having a proximal end and a distal end, with an expandable occlusion element disposed on the elongated catheter body. A catheter may include a first infusion lumen extending to a proximal infusion port positioned on the catheter body proximally of the occlusion element and a second infusion lumen extending to a distal infusion port. Some embodiments may use a suction lumen extending to at least one suction port. When the catheter is introduced into vasculature of a patient, the suction port may be positioned in the patient's superior vena cava or right atrium to draw blood, the distal infusion port is positioned to direct normothermic or hyperthermic fluid toward the patient's heart, and the proximal infusion port is positioned to create a flow of hypothermic fluid in the patient's cerebral vasculature.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Penumbra, Inc.Inventors: Robert D. Schultz, Justin M. Olshavsky, Bridget C. Vaughan, Corey Teigen, Scott Teigen, Michael E. Salamy, Nitika S. Chellappa, Akhilesh R. R. Yeluru, Annam K. Quraishi, Melissa E. R. Jones, Aurko J. Shaw, Matthew W. L. Sprinkel, Anderson S. Lee, Evan T. Koretsky, Steve Loisel, Robyn Shaffer
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Patent number: 12097346Abstract: A thoracostomy device that may be used for the placement of a chest tube is disclosed. The thoracostomy device is adapted to be extended into an incision in a patient, and comprises: (a) a handle portion; (b) an insertion portion extending from the handle portion, and having a linear portion and a curved terminal portion, the insertion portion having opposed substantially continuous first inner and second outer lateral surfaces, the device defining a central axis extending therethrough; and (c) a continuous channel extending through the handle and insertion portions and open to the first inner lateral surface, the channel having a medial axis offset from and parallel to the central axis, the channel adapted to guide a tube along the central axis while being adapted to allow a tube to be removed laterally of the channel. The present invention also includes a method of preparing a chest tube for insertion and for inserting a chest tube such as through the use any of the devices of the present invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: OhioHealth CorporationInventors: Marshall Chance Spalding, Keshav Deshpande, Patrick D. Smith, Tony Mango, Lauren Shingler
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Patent number: 12097347Abstract: Disclosed is a system including a flow regulating system. The flow regulating system may assist in ensuring a selected pressure within an inlet volume. The flow regulator may be included in a shunt assembly. The shut assembly may include an inlet catheter configured to assist in maintaining an open flow path therethrough.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Medtronic Xomed, Inc.Inventor: Elizabeth K. Nagy
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Patent number: 12097348Abstract: Devices and methods for mixing and preparing therapeutic pellets are described. In one aspect, the present disclosure may include a medical device for mixing and preparing pharmaceuticals. The medical device may include a body sized and shaped to be supported by a human hand. The body may be elastically flexible between a relaxed shape and a flexed shape. In the relaxed shape, the body may form a basin and may be shaped and sized to receive a vessel for mixing or forming the therapeutic pellets. In the flexed shape, the bowl may be configured for controlled pouring of the therapeutic pellets.Type: GrantFiled: November 10, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Austin Medical Ventures Inc.Inventors: William Brian Austin, Stephen T. Miller
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Patent number: 12097349Abstract: A delivery adapter which may be used as an interface between a syringe and a catheter hub is described.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: MicroVention, Inc.Inventors: Pete Barker, Jonathan Lam, Scott Pool, Frida San, Edgar Villanueva
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Patent number: 12097350Abstract: Universal disinfecting connector, connector or cap can interface with male, female, female stopcock, and female hemodialysis threaded fittings, therefore encompassing an entire spectrum of disinfecting connectors. Disinfecting connector or cap includes a configuration of structural elements that provide a universal rotary cap incorporating rotary-activated interfaces and design features allowing the cap to be configured to selectively present any one of a plurality of connection types, or interfaces, for engaging, coupling, or capping, a corresponding type of a male or a female connector or luer.Type: GrantFiled: November 26, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventor: Sean Coyle
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Patent number: 12097351Abstract: A fail-safe drug infusion system, including a user interface controller (UIC) and at least one pump motor controller (PMC), with protocols that enable the PMC to operate therapy delivery for a limited amount of time if the UIC fails or the communication link between the UIC and the PMC is interrupted. Includes synchronization methods to synchronize the delivery information back to the UIC after the UIC reboots or after the communication link is restored. The PMC may apply intelligent fail-safe drug infusion therapy by temporarily displaying therapy information, for example information normally displayed by the UIC, while taking control of alarm signaling and providing minimal user control of the therapy until the UIC restores itself, the infusion completes normally, or the user stops the infusion. If the PMC becomes inoperable, the UIC may wait for the PMC to reboot, or attempt to switch infusion channels to provide robust drug infusion.Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: ICU Medical, Inc.Inventors: Anatoly S. Belkin, William K. Day, Steve J. Lindo, James P. Roman, Andrei T. Stratan
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Patent number: 12097352Abstract: The disclosed embodiments are directed to a wearable automatic drug delivery device configured to provide basal-only dosing of insulin. In a primary embodiment, the wearable drug delivery device is configured to provide automatic operation and provides audible alerts and visual status indicators to the patient. In other embodiments, the patient may have some degree of control over the operation of the device by providing tapping gestures on housing of the device. In yet another embodiment, the patient may provide input and receive status from the device via an application executing on a portable computing device in wireless communication with the wearable drug delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: INSULET CORPORATIONInventors: Jason O'Connor, Matthew Alles, Robert Sanzone, Craig Brodeur, Joseph Melo, Christopher Williams, Noel Schaeffer
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Patent number: 12097353Abstract: Ambulatory infusion pumps, pump assemblies, and baseplate assemblies, including cartridges, baseplates, cannulas, inserters, and related components and batteries therefor, as well as component combinations and related methods.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC.Inventors: Roger E. Smith, Carla Mann Woods
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Patent number: 12097354Abstract: An infusion device system includes a base (12) for removably coupling to a delivery device, a needle hub (22) supporting an insertion needle (20) and a catheter (18) for delivering a substance to a patient. The infusion device includes a needle shield (24) for covering the insertion needle (20) after inserting the catheter (18) into the patient. The needle hub (22) includes a least one leg (70) extending from the needle shield (24) to stabilize the needle shield (24) and needle hub (12) relative to the base. In one embodiment, the legs (70) can include a latching tab (74) to couple to the needle hub (22) to resist separation of the needle hub from the base (12) until the legs are deflected outward to release the needle hub (22).Type: GrantFiled: September 2, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and CompanyInventors: Alex Sousa Chaves, Victor Isaac Politis
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Patent number: 12097355Abstract: The exemplary embodiments may provide a drug delivery device that receives glucose level values for a user (e.g., a diabetic patient) and based on the glucose level values, determines when the user has consumed a meal. In some embodiments, the drug delivery device may calculate an appropriate bolus dose and automatically deliver the drug bolus to the user. In some embodiments, instead of detecting the meal, the user may announce the meal, such as by activating an element on the drug delivery device or on a management device for the drug delivery device. Responsive to the meal announcement, the drug delivery device may calculate the drug bolus dose and deliver the drug bolus. In conjunction with the delivery of the drug bolus, the drug delivery device may relax one or more safety constraints for a relaxation period following the drug bolus delivery so that additional basal drug may be delivered, if needed, under relaxed constraints.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: INSULET CORPORATIONInventors: Rangarajan Narayanaswami, Yibin Zheng, Mert Sevil, William Whiteley, Saeed Salavati, Sam Carl
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Patent number: 12097356Abstract: A medical liquid injection device includes a base body, a needle assembly mounted on the base body, a reservoir fluidly connected to the needle assembly and having a plunger therein, a driving unit that linearly moves the plunger, and an encoder unit disposed at an end of the driving unit to measure rotation of the driving unit.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2024Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: EOFLOW CO., LTD.Inventors: Seungha Kim, Hyunduk Roh, Seonhwan Kim, Daejong Park
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Patent number: 12097357Abstract: A method of manufacturing an autoinjector includes supplying a preloaded syringe including a sterile needle and a needle cover, a preassembled distal housing portion including an adhesive base on a distal end thereof and a channel for insertion of the preloaded syringe, and a proximal housing portion including a motor and a transmission. An activation device is supplied and the preloaded syringe is slid longitudinally through an opening in a proximal end of the distal housing portion into the channel. A distal end of the proximal housing portion is joined to a proximal end of the distal housing portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: West Pharma. Services IL, Ltd.Inventors: Oz Cabiri, Ran Hezkiahu
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Patent number: 12097358Abstract: An auto injector is provided by which a fixed dose of a medicament can be injected as self-treatment, and by which needle exposure to an accessible position, injection of the medicament and retraction of the needle to an inaccessible position is automatically performed as a continuous sequence, after the auto injector is triggered. Solutions to improve the functionality of the retraction of the needle and the general experience of the use, are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: SHAILY ENGINEERING PLASTICS LTD.Inventor: Claus Schmidt Moeller
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Patent number: 12097359Abstract: A medical device may comprise a flexible sheath defining a lumen extending from a proximal end of the sheath to a distal end of the sheath. The sheath may include a piston slidably received within the lumen; an agent disposed in the lumen distal to the piston; and pneumatic fluid disposed in the lumen proximal of the piston. The device may also comprise handle at a proximal end of the sheath, the handle including: a plunger received in a reservoir, wherein the reservoir is in fluid communication with the lumen. The reservoir may contain pneumatic fluid. The handle may also include a gear. An amount of rotation of the gear in a first direction may correspond to an amount that the plunger advances distally in the reservoir to displace pneumatic fluid. The displacement of the pneumatic fluid may advance the piston distally to deliver an amount of agent from the sheath.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.Inventors: Joseph King, Andrew Pic, John Favreau
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Patent number: 12097360Abstract: Safety needle device (1) comprising: a hub (10) configured to be connected to a pen-injector, the hub (10) comprising a lateral wall (11) and an upper wall (12) which define therebetween a cavity (13) extending between the upper wall (12) and an lower aperture (14) able to receive the pen injector; a needle (20) attached to the hub (10), the needle (20) extending along a longitudinal direction (X-X) between a distal end (21), configured for insertion into a patient, and an opposed proximal end (22) configured to be connected to the pen injector, a back-end shield (30) slidable along the longitudinal direction (X-X) within the cavity (13) of the hub (10) and rotatable about the longitudinal direction (X-X), the back-end shield (30) being movable irreversibly from an initial position, before connection of the pen injector to the hub (10), to a locking position, after removal of the pen injector to the hub (10) passing through an intermediate position, an elastic member (40) arranged within the cavity (13) and aType: GrantFiled: December 17, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: HTL-STREFA S.A.Inventors: Marcin Komuda, Marcin Niemiec, Robert Grzelak, Robert Osak, Rafal Perlak, Bartlomiej Bialas
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Patent number: 12097361Abstract: Fluid management systems are disclosed that include software-controlled, electro-mechanical devices used in combination with single-use or multi-use tubing sets. Functions of the fluid management systems can include fluid pressurization, fluid warming, fluid deficit monitoring (including flow-based and weight-based), suction, fluid collection, and fluid evacuation (including indirect-to-drain and direct-to-drain options). The systems can be configured based on the surgical environment (e.g., operating room or physician office) as well as other user needs and/or preferences.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Benjamin T. Lorman, Matthew R. Biats, Paul A. Marijan, Jeffrey P. Minnich
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Patent number: 12097362Abstract: Fluid management systems are disclosed that include software-controlled, electro-mechanical devices used in combination with single-use or multi-use tubing sets. Functions of the fluid management systems can include fluid pressurization, fluid warming, fluid deficit monitoring (including flow-based and weight-based), suction, fluid collection, and fluid evacuation (including indirect-to-drain and direct-to-drain options). The systems can be configured based on the surgical environment (e.g., operating room or physician office) as well as other user needs and/or preferences.Type: GrantFiled: February 5, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Stryker CorporationInventors: Kevin J. Sutter, Douglas L. Carr, Eugene A. Estok, Liliya Fritzsching, Katherine N. Lionetti, Benjamin T. Lorman, Andrew R. Biddinger, Alexander S. Turner
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Patent number: 12097363Abstract: Systems, assemblies, and related modules for connecting components of medical devices employ connector cables with electrical conductors and optical fibers. A connector assembly for coupling a battery module with a medical system including an implanted or worn medical device includes an input connector and an output connector. The input connector includes metal contact plates, has no moving parts, and is sealed to prevent water or dust ingression into the housing. The output connector includes metal pins to electrically couple to the metal plates of the input connector, a connector cable including electrical conductors coupled to the metal pins configured to transmit electrical power and an optical fiber configured to transmit data, and a latching mechanism disposed at an end of the output connector configured to physically attach the output connector to the housing. The cable body has a substantially flat cross-section.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: TC1 LLCInventors: Kevin Conyers, Jaime Arturo Romero
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Patent number: 12097364Abstract: A cardiac assist system includes a pneumatic effector which is implanted beneath a pericardial sac and over a myocardial surface overlying the patient's left ventricle. A port is implanted and receives a percutaneously introduced cannula. The port is connected to supply a driving gas received from the cannula to the pneumatic effector. An external drive unit includes a pump assembly and control circuitry which operate the pump to actuate the pneumatic effector in response to the patient's sensed heart rhythm. A connecting tube has a pump end connected to the pump and a percutaneous port-connecting end attached to the implantable port.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: PERCASSIST, INC.Inventors: Albert K. Chin, Gerardo Noriega, William Hsu
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Patent number: 12097365Abstract: Apparatus and methods for treating back pain are provided, in which an implantable stimulator is configured to communicate with an external control system, the implantable stimulator providing a neuromuscular electrical stimulation therapy designed to cause muscle contraction to rehabilitate the muscle, restore neural drive and restore spinal stability; the implantable stimulator further including one or more of a number of additional therapeutic modalities, including a module that provides analgesic stimulation; a module that monitors muscle performance and adjusts the muscle stimulation regime; and/or a module that provides longer term pain relief by selectively and repeatedly ablating nerve fibers. In an alternative embodiment, a standalone implantable RF ablation system is described.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Mainstay Medical LimitedInventors: Peter Andrew Crosby, Dan Sachs, Prashant Brijmohansingh Rawat, Jason Alan Shiroff, Johannes Petrus Heemels
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Patent number: 12097366Abstract: An apparatus for performing bioelectric stimulation, the apparatus comprising: a stimulation unit; a measurement unit comprising an amplifier; first and second stimulation electrodes operable to apply electrical signals to tissue of a patient; first and second measurement electrodes operable to receive first and second measurement signals from the tissue of the patient; wherein the stimulation unit is configured to deliver a first stimulation signal to the first stimulation electrode and a second stimulation signal to the second stimulation electrode; wherein the first signal and the second signal are mirrored about a biasing voltage, the biasing voltage set in dependence of the dynamic range of the amplifier.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: MONASH UNIVERSITYInventors: Richard H. Thomson, Paul B. Fitzgerald, Caley Sullivan, Mark Harrison
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Patent number: 12097367Abstract: An iontophoresis system for positioning against skin of a subject is disclosed. The iontophoresis system can comprise at least one vessel having a solvent therein. An anode apparatus can couple to the at least one vessel. The anode apparatus can comprise a first reservoir configured to receive the solvent from the at least one vessel so that, when received into the first reservoir, the solvent makes contact with the skin of the subject, and a first electrode positioned above the first reservoir. A cathode apparatus can couple to the at least one vessel. The cathode apparatus can comprise a second reservoir configured to receive the solvent from the at least one vessel so that, when received into the first reservoir, the solvent makes contact with the skin of the subject, and a second electrode positioned above the second reservoir.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: United States Government As Represented By The Department Of Veterans AffairsInventors: Anton Sabiev, William Bauman, Mark Korsten
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Patent number: 12097368Abstract: The present invention relates to a surgical method of treating a patient. The method involves cutting the patient's skin and abdominal wall, dissecting an area of the patient's intestine, cutting the patient's intestine so as to form an intestinal wall of a reservoir, implanting at least a pump as part of a flow control device so as to permanently reside inside the patient's body and to act on said intestinal wall so as to reduce the reservoir's volume in order to empty intestinal contents from the reservoir to outside the patient's body, and thereafter, permanently closing the abdominal wall and skin.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Inventor: Peter Forsell
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Patent number: 12097369Abstract: An orthopedic device with a base body for applying to a body part of a wearer, and at least one electrode for transcutaneously transmitting electrical signals. The at least one electrode features an electrically conductive textile and an electrically conductive polymer, wherein the electrically conductive textile is partially penetrated by the electrically inductive polymer and arranged in such a way that it comes into contact with the body part when the base body is applied.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: OTTOBOCK SE & CO. KGAAInventors: Mario Koppe, Heiko Glindemann, Bernhard Graimann
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Patent number: 12097370Abstract: A method, including obtaining data relating to electric hearing, obtaining data relating to acoustic hearing and preparing a prescription for a multimodal hearing prosthesis for an individual based on the obtained data relating to the electric hearing and the acoustic hearing. In an exemplary embodiment, the method entails comparing the data relating to electric hearing to the data relating to acoustic hearing and preparing the prescription based on the results of the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Cochlear LimitedInventor: Peter Andrew Busby
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Patent number: 12097371Abstract: An auricular nerve field stimulation device may include first non-percutaneous electrodes arranged to contact a ventral aspect of an auricle, second non-percutaneous electrodes arranged to contact a dorsal aspect of the auricle, and electrical circuitry coupled to the electrodes and configured to selectively apply electrical stimulation signals to the electrodes to cause a first set of trans-auricular currents to flow through the auricle between the first electrodes and respective ones of the second electrodes paired therewith according to a first pairing, and to cause a second set of trans-auricular currents to flow through the auricle between the first electrodes and respective ones of the second electrodes paired therewith according to a second pairing different from the first pairing, the first and second sets of trans-auricular currents to stimulate at least one auricular nerve field within the auricle.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Neuraxis, Inc.Inventors: Christopher R. Brown, Gary M. Peterson
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Patent number: 12097372Abstract: Systems and methods for optimizing neuromodulation field design for pain therapy are discussed. An exemplary neuromodulation system includes an electrostimulator to stimulate target tissue to induce paresthesia, a data receiver to receive pain data including pain sites experiencing pain, and to receive patient feedback on the induced paresthesia including paresthesia sites experiencing paresthesia. The neuromodulation system includes a processor circuit configured to generate a spatial correspondence indication between the pain sites and the paresthesia sites over one or more dermatomes, determine an anodic weight and a cathodic weight for each of multiple electrode locations using the spatial correspondence indication, and generate a stimulation field definition for neuromodulation pain therapy.Type: GrantFiled: March 29, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Boston Scientific Neuromodulation CorporationInventors: Jessica Block, Tianhe Zhang, Natalie A. Brill
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Patent number: 12097373Abstract: This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for controlling electrical stimulation. In some examples, a system includes a user interface and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to output, for display by the user interface, a message requesting the patient perform a set of actions, receive, from the user interface, user input indicative of a patient response associated with the set of actions, and determine, based on the user input, one or more adjustments to a control policy which controls electrical stimulation delivered by a medical device based on a plurality of evoked compound action potentials (ECAPs) sensed by the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: February 24, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Duane L. Bourget, Kristin N. Hageman, Hank Bink, Jiashu Li, Laura Ann Skarie
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Patent number: 12097374Abstract: Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for audio-visual interaction of a user and implant device to resolve a voice command of the user. The method includes one or more processors determining a health-related issue of a user that corresponds to a voice command of the user. The method further includes identifying an implanted device of the user that relates to the health-related issue. The method further includes collecting sensor data of the implanted device, wherein the sensor data includes one or more conditions of the implanted device and operating environment of the implanted device in the body of the user. The method further includes generating an audio-visual response corresponding to the health-related issue of the user.Type: GrantFiled: September 22, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Subha Kiran Patnaikuni, Sarbajit K. Rakshit
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Patent number: 12097375Abstract: A cardiac pacing system and a pacemaker fixation device are disclosed. The pacemaker fixation device includes a ring-shaped stent and at least one contractible member. The ring-shaped stent is configured to load a leadless pacemaker and easily fix it at a target site in a patient's body reliably without dislodgement. A connecting element in the contractible member can be reliably connected to an external mechanism, thus facilitating retrieval and removal of the cardiac pacing system with an increased success rate. During implantation, the contractible member can be adapted by operating the external mechanism to adjust the pacing location for the leadless pacemaker, thus allowing the operator to easily determine the best pacing location that can result in enhanced pacing performance of the leadless pacemaker. Further, the leadless pacemaker may be fixed in the atrium in order to pace the atrium, thus reducing non-physiological pacing with atrioventricular desynchronization.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: MICROPORT SOARING CRM (SHANGHAI) CO., LTD.Inventors: Peng Guo, Grace Jang, Zhijun Cheng
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Patent number: 12097376Abstract: The disclosed systems and methods provide a mobile defibrillator system that can include a mobile defibrillator (AED) unit configured to operatively connect to a device capable of running an application. The mobile AED unit can include circuitry for administering an electric shock to a subject; and one or more pads. Each pad can include one or more needles electrically connected to the circuitry and can be configured to pierce skin of the subject; reside within the subject; and deliver current from the electrical shock to the subject.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Defibrio ASInventors: Jon KÃ¥re Hansen, Bjarte Nore, Arne Bergby, Joshua Hale
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Patent number: 12097377Abstract: An implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) receives a cardiac electrical signal by a sensing circuit while operating in a sensing without pacing mode and detects asystole based on the cardiac electrical signal. The ICD determines, in response to detecting the asystole, if asystole backup pacing is enabled, and automatically switches to a temporary pacing mode in response to the asystole backup pacing being enabled. Other examples of detecting asystole and providing a response to detecting asystole by the ICD are described herein.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.Inventors: Yanina Grinberg, Robert T. Sawchuk, Amy E. Thompson-Nauman, Douglas A. Peterson, Paul R. Solheim, Joel R. Lauer
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Patent number: 12097378Abstract: A resuscitation system for use in the resuscitation of a subject includes a computing device configured to input subject information and use the subject information to create a subject resuscitation strategy, a sensor configured to detect subject biosignals and use the subject biosignals to monitor for a subject cardiac arrest event, and a defibrillator configured to determine and deliver a subject resuscitation treatment. On determination of a subject cardiac arrest event, the sensor outputs sensor subject biosignals to the computing device. The computing device uses the sensor subject biosignals to adapt the subject resuscitation strategy and output the subject resuscitation strategy to the defibrillator. The defibrillator measures subject biodata and uses the subject biodata and the subject resuscitation strategy to determine and deliver a subject resuscitation treatment.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: HEARTSINE TECHNOLOGIES LIMITEDInventors: Dymphna Mary Donaghy, Johnny Houston Anderson, Adam Patrick Harvey, Peter James Lindsay
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Patent number: 12097379Abstract: A method for a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (WCD) system comprises sensing one or more patient parameters from different parts of a body of the patient by the one or more transducers, obtaining a plurality of physiological inputs from the sensed one or more patient parameters, detecting first aspects from each of at least some of the physiological inputs, generating an aggregated first aspect from at least two of the detected first aspects, determining an aggregate analysis score from the aggregated first aspect, and determining whether the aggregate analysis score meets an aggregate shock criterion. The electrical charge is discharged within six minutes from when it is determined that the aggregate shock criterion is met, otherwise the electrical charge is not discharged for at least 19 minutes from when it is determined that the aggregate shock criterion is not met.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: West Affum Holdings DACInventor: Joseph L. Sullivan
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Patent number: 12097380Abstract: Provided are methods for disrupting dipolar interactions in vivo and in vitro, as wells as treating conditions associated with abnormal cell growth, by subjecting to an artificial, stable magnetic field. Also provided are assays involving an artificial, stable magnetic field. Additionally, the exposure of an artificial, stable magnetic field may be combined with other non-magnetic therapy in treatment or assays.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: MICROMED SCIENTIA, INC.Inventor: Jiu Xiang Ni
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Patent number: 12097381Abstract: An integrated Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) coil for brain function testing and treatment is provided. The coil includes a coil housing. A figure-eight coil is provided inside the coil housing, and the coil housing is provided with two waist-like bosses for limiting a position of the coil, eight mounting holes are formed on the coil housing, and an optical fiber holder is provided in each of the mounting holes for mounting an optical fiber probe, a silica gel sheet is provided inside the coil housing for limiting movement of the optical fiber holders, a lead-out of the coil passes through the bottom of the coil housing and is connected to a TMS instrument, and a signal end of the optical fiber probe is connected to a near-infrared brain function imager.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: WUHAN ZNION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTDInventors: Cong Sun, Bo Wang, Shengan Cai
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Patent number: 12097382Abstract: A method for covertly creating adverse health effects in a human subject includes generating at least one electromagnetic wave at a frequency within the range of about 300 MHz (megahertz) and about 300 GHz (gigahertz). The at least one electromagnetic energy wave is pulsed at a pulse frequency within a target range of human neural oscillations. The at least one pulsed electromagnetic wave is remotely transmitted to the subject's brain.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Inventors: Elwood Norris, Seth Putterman
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Patent number: 12097383Abstract: Methods and systems for treating a biological fluid with light are disclosed. The methods and systems include determining the light dose being delivered to a biological fluid and adjusting the duration of a treatment or the intensity of light emitted in the event of a detected light source outage.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Fenwal, Inc.Inventors: Greg Coultas, Christopher J. Wegener, Tanima Jahan Abedin
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Patent number: 12097384Abstract: Disclosed herein are method to deliver supplemental or therapeutically effective aliquots or doses of one or more of at least gaseous fluids to at least one of the ear canal, eyes, skin, hair and lungs. Methods and systems may include delivery of energy aliquots of photodynamic energy including in the red, long red and/or near IR spectra to the eyes. The method may include delivering gaseous fluid to a subject in an enclosed space with a partially opened bottom and a vent opposite the bottom, providing a gaseous fluid douche or bath to at least one of the eyes, ears, skin, hairline, nose and mouth of the subject.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Inventors: Mark H. Krietzman, Renz Wolfgang
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Patent number: 12097385Abstract: A lung phantom unit for radiotherapy according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may arrange, at a location not affected by a magnetic field, a phantom driving cylinder and a driving device which may move a lung mimic and a tumor mimic in a lung simulation block. The lung phantom unit may be used for general purpose even as a phantom for MRI-based and CT image-based radiotherapy. Since lung and tumor motions are implemented by air injection, it may be possible to precisely measure the motion and volume change of a lung according to subtle changes in air pressure so that customized radiotherapy suitable for a patient having various breathing patterns is possible.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF KOREA INDUSTRY-ACADEMIC COOPERATION FOUNDATIONInventors: Young Nam Kang, Tae Geon Oh, Yun Ji Seol, Na Young An, Jae Hyeon Lee, Chul Seung Kay, Jin Sol Shin, Jin Ho Hwang, Hun Joo Shin, Myung Ho Kim, Hong Seok Jang
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Patent number: 12097386Abstract: Respective target positions, into which elements of a radiation therapy machine are to be moved (e.g., prior to beginning treatment of a patient), are determined. A candidate path, which describes movements of the elements from respective initial positions to the respective target positions, is defined and accessed. The candidate path is evaluated to determine whether it would result in a collision between any of the elements. The candidate path is included in a set of candidate paths when the candidate path does not result in a collision between any of the elements. A value of a measure (e.g., a measure of efficiency), used for ranking each candidate path in the set of candidate paths, is determined. A path is selected from the set of candidate paths based on the ranking.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Siemens Healthineers International AGInventors: Stefan Thieme-Marti, Jennifer Kieselmann
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Patent number: 12097387Abstract: A radiation treatment planning apparatus according to one aspect includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry obtains time-series medical images. The processing circuitry specifies a first time phase in which radiation irradiation is performed and a second time phase in which no radiation irradiation is performed, in a period corresponding to the time-series medical images based on a positional relationship between a treatment target region and at-risk region of a patient included in the time-series medical images. The processing circuitry generates a treatment plan based on a medical image of the specified first time phase.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Canon Medical Systems CorporationInventor: Masahide Ichihashi
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Patent number: 12097388Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for pulse parameter modulation. The systems may perform the methods to obtain information related to a treatment plan; determine a backward window based on the information related to the treatment plan, within which one or more radiation pulses have been transmitted; determine backward information associated with the backward window based on the information related to the treatment plan and the backward window; determine a forward window based on the information related to the treatment plan, within which one or more radiation pulses are to be transmitted; determine forward information associated with the forward window based on the information related to the treatment plan, the backward information, and the forward window; and determine one or more pulse parameters of the forward window based on the forward information.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: UIH AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Johannes Stahl, Jonathan Maltz
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Patent number: 12097389Abstract: Techniques include receiving a treatment plan for a subject, including a body outline, a position on a couch, and, for each gantry angle, a couch angle an isocenter and target volumes to which a radiation source is directed. A perspective transform matrix is based on projected coordinates of reference points from a digital image projector onto each different plane perpendicular to a beam from the radiation source at different distances. Two-dimensional spot positions for a gantry and couch angle are determined based on the treatment plan. A group of spot positions are determined based on a common distance from the radiation source to the body outline. Illuminated spots on a projection image are determined based on the group and the perspective transform matrix closest to the common distance. The projection image is projected from the image projector onto the subject on the couch.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INCORPORATEDInventors: Meng Wei Ho, Zuofeng Li
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Patent number: 12097390Abstract: Methods, devices and systems for ultra-high dose radiotherapy are described that rely in-part on active switching control of a photoconductive switch when the accelerator is accelerating charged particles to produce output radiation at desired dose rates. One example method for producing output radiation in a flash radiotherapy system includes receiving, at a particle accelerator, a charged particle beam, where the particle accelerator system also includes a photoconductive switch coupled to the particle accelerator. The photoconductive switch can operate in a linear mode and includes a doped crystalline material that receives a voltage to establish an electric field across the crystalline material.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignees: Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, Opcondys, Inc.Inventors: Stephen E. Sampayan, Kristin Cortella Sampayan, George James Caporaso, Yu-Jiuan Chen, Clifford C. Shang
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Patent number: 12097391Abstract: Provided is an ultrasonic generator with an adjustable ultrasonic focusing depth. The ultrasonic generator with an adjustable ultrasonic focusing depth includes a cartridge housing in which an ultrasound generation portion generating ultrasonic waves is provided, a hand piece in which the cartridge housing is detachably mounted, the hand piece having a first actuator thereinside, and a main shaft to which the ultrasound generation portion is coupled so as to reciprocate in a horizontal direction, parallel to the bottom of the cartridge housing and a vertical direction, perpendicular to the bottom of the cartridge housing. One end of the main shaft is coupled to one end of the first actuator of the hand piece, and an other end of the main shaft is located inside the cartridge housing. The hand piece includes an adjustment portion adjusting an ultrasonic focusing depth of the ultrasound generation portion.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2021Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Jeisys Medical Inc.Inventors: Eun Ho Kim, Kyun Tae Kim, Kwang Hee Moon, Su Yong Lee, Min Young Kim, Won Ju Yi, Dong Hwan Kang
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Patent number: 12097392Abstract: Ultrasound transducer element arrays using acoustic ensonification drive patterns via a patient interface for sonosensitizer activation in sonodynamic therapy. Incoherent acoustic field generation varying phase, frequencies, and/or amplitude via controlled delivery of low intensity planar acoustic waves. Method includes generating a first and a second signal to generate respective acoustic ensonification drive patterns with phase, frequency, and amplitude and generating at least one relative phase, frequency or amplitude difference to generate a third incoherent acoustic ensonification pattern to activate a sonosensitizer. Calibration and complementary therapy procedures to improve cell susceptibility of cells to sonodynamic therapy are disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Alpheus Medical, Inc.Inventors: Vijay Agarwal, Braden Eliason, Jeremy Ling, John Ballard, Gregg Miller
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Patent number: 12097393Abstract: A method of treating skin is disclosed. The method includes topically applying to the skin a composition comprising Lactobacillus ferment, Punica granatum extract, Camellia sinensis leaf extract, Cucumis sativus fruit extract, niacinamide, sodium hyaluronate, glycerin, and butylene glycol, wherein the skin is treated.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2023Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: MARY KAY INC.Inventors: Dawn Burke-Colvin, Michelle Hines, David Gan
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Patent number: 12097394Abstract: A sprinkler for a fire suppression system includes a body defining an inlet and an outlet fluidly coupled to one another, a frame assembly including a frame member coupled to the body and extending away from the outlet, a deflector coupled to the frame member and offset from the outlet, a seal assembly configured to sealingly engage the body to prevent flow through the outlet, and a trigger assembly. The trigger assembly includes a shape memory alloy element configured to deform from an unactuated configuration to an actuated configuration in response to reaching an activation temperature. In the unactuated configuration, the trigger assembly directly engages both the frame assembly and the seal assembly and holds the seal assembly in sealed engagement with the body. In the actuated configuration, the trigger assembly permits the seal assembly to disengage from the body.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2019Date of Patent: September 24, 2024Assignee: Johnson Controls Tyco IP Holdings LLPInventors: Jeremy T. Cogswell, Manuel R. Silva, Jr., Timothy C. Gamroth, Kirk P. Henderson