Medical Patents (Class 340/539.12)
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Patent number: 10179424Abstract: A diagnostic system for measuring acceleration of a piston of a reciprocating hammer is disclosed. The diagnostic system may include a magnet configured to induce, via electromagnetic induction and based on a movement of the piston, an electric current in a conductor. The diagnostic system may include a capacitor electrically coupled to the conductor and configured to store electric power based on the electric current induced by the magnet. The diagnostic system may include an accelerometer configured to measure an acceleration of the piston. The diagnostic system may include a communication device powered by the capacitor and configured to output a signal that identifies the acceleration measured by the accelerometer.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Caterpillar Inc.Inventors: Steven B. Ellis, Dimitar Dostinov, Bart A. Fisher
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Patent number: 10171537Abstract: A dynamic secure mobile network is provided to enable the transfer and storage of private data. The dynamic secure mobile network can provide secured communication channels that segregates different types of data and allows for protected data streams to be sent via different secured channels than non-protected data. The enhanced wireless mobile network can support consistent compliancy/privacy and security policies across all networks.Type: GrantFiled: August 7, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignees: AT&T INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY I, L.P., AT&T MOBILITY II LLCInventors: Sangar Dowlatkhah, Erie Lai Har Lau
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Patent number: 10165125Abstract: A method for interaction with a medical device that is implanted in a body of a patient. The method includes detecting, using an inertial sensor, an arcuate motion of a wireless communication device terminating in physical contact between the wireless communication device and the body. In response to the detected arcuate motion, a wireless communication link is actuated between the wireless communication device and a transmitter in the implanted medical device. The wireless communication device data receives transmitted over the wireless communication link by the transmitter.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2017Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.Inventors: Assaf Govari, Yaron Ephrath, Andres Claudio Altmann
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Patent number: 10155110Abstract: A Wearable Cardiac Defibrillator (WCD) system is configured to be worn by a patient who carries a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device has a user interface that is configured to enable the patient to enter wireless inputs. The WCD system includes a communication module that is configured to establish a local comlink with the mobile communication device. The WCD system also includes a tethered action unit that has a user interface configured to enable the patient to enter action inputs. The WCD system can perform some of its functions in response to the action inputs or to the wireless inputs. Since the wireless inputs can be provided from the mobile communication device instead of the action unit, the patient is less likely to attract attention when entering them, and thus exhibit better compliance.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2015Date of Patent: December 18, 2018Assignee: WEST AFFUM HOLDINGS CORP.Inventors: David Peter Finch, Phillip Dewey Foshee, Jr., Erick Michael Roane, Laura Marie Gustavson, Kenneth F. Cowan, Robert Reuben Buchanan, Daniel James Finney, Jason W. Fouts, Gregory T. Kavounas
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Patent number: 10147184Abstract: Systems, methods and media for detecting a seizure use one or more 3D cameras to monitor an individual. The 3D cameras may detect rigidity and/or rapid movements associated with the tonic or clonic phases of a seizure. Body position and/or movements consistent with a seizure may cause the system or media to alert the individual, a central monitoring system, caregivers, and/or others.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventors: Michael Kusens, Neil Kusens
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Patent number: 10142042Abstract: A first semiconductor die may comprise an interface circuit and a demodulation circuit. The interface circuit may be operable to receive an externally generated signal and recover decisions of a symbol de-mapper carried in the externally generated signal. The demodulation circuit may be operable to recover one or more transport streams based on the decisions of the symbol de-mapper. The first semiconductor die may comprise circuitry operable to combine a plurality of signals from a plurality of second semiconductor dice, where each of the plurality of signals comprises decisions of a respective one of a plurality of symbol de-mappers.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Radioxio, LLCInventors: Curtis Ling, Timothy Gallagher, Glenn Chang
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Patent number: 10142201Abstract: A device network communicates with a remote platform such as a cloud service via a gateway. A network monitor device monitors network health and may adjust the amount of data collected by the gateway, reducing the amount of data collected in case of poor network health.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2017Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventor: Amit Verma
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Patent number: 10123702Abstract: A patient monitoring system includes an electronic device that may be manipulated by a first user. The electronic device has a first transceiver. A monitoring unit is worn on a second user thereby facilitating the monitoring unit to detect vital signs of the second user. The monitoring unit is in wireless electrical communication with the electronic device via the Internet or the like. Moreover, the monitoring unit selectively generates an alarm sequence when the monitoring unit detects that the vital signs have deviated from a pre-determined normal state. The electronic device generates an audible alarm when the monitoring unit generates the alarm sequence. In this way the electronic device notifies the first user that the second user is experiencing a medical emergency.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2017Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Inventor: Jennifer Wilkins
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Patent number: 10117722Abstract: A medical device identification system includes a medical device including an identifier and a sensor device configured to read the identifier of the medical device. The system further includes an output device configured to provide feedback related to the medical device and a monitoring system communicably coupled to the sensor device and the output device. The monitoring system is configured to identify the medical device based on the identifier of the medical device read by the sensor device and transmit feedback to the output device specific to the medical device.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2015Date of Patent: November 6, 2018Assignee: Spinal Generations, LLCInventor: Patrick J. Sweeney
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Patent number: 10105055Abstract: An external medical device including monitoring circuitry and communication circuitry. The monitoring circuitry monitors a cardiac condition of a patient using the external medical device. For example, the communication circuitry initiates a communication link with a remote location. The remote location can be selected based on data associated with at least one of the external medical device and the patient using the external medical device. In some examples, supporting data can be transmitted to the remote location.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2017Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: ZOLL Medical CorporationInventors: Thomas E. Kaib, Shane Volpe, Marshal Linder, Patrick Hresko
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Patent number: 10109170Abstract: Provided are a method and system for implementing alarms for a medical device through a mobile device. The method includes: storing details of examination of a specimen (hereinafter, referred to as examination details) in the medical device, wherein the storing is performed by the medical device; accessing the medical device and establishing a connection with the medical device, wherein the accessing and the establishing of the connection is performed by the mobile device; reading the examination details stored in the medical device, wherein the reading is performed by the mobile device; analyzing the read examination details, wherein the analyzing is performed by the mobile device; and implementing an alarm if the result of analysis satisfies a predetermined criterion, wherein the implementing is performed by the mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: December 31, 2015Date of Patent: October 23, 2018Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Jong-rip Lee, Hang-chan Kim, Sung-hwa Lee, Chang-sub Lee, Sung-ho Choi
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Patent number: 10098544Abstract: A wireless ECG sensor system includes a sensor patch configured to attach to a user. The sensor patch may include a substrate having a positive and a negative electrode, and a passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) transponder carried by the substrate. The RFID may include a first antenna, a non-transitory and non-volatile storage medium in electrical communication with the first antenna, a load modulation switch in electrical communication with the first antenna, and a microcontroller in electrical communication with the first antenna and in data communication with both the storage medium and the load modulation switch. The system may also include an interrogator device having a second antenna configured to wirelessly transmit electromagnetic radiation having a resonant frequency of the first antenna of the sensor patch, and a demodulator configured to measure a voltage amplitude of the electromagnetic radiation wirelessly transmitted by the second antenna.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2015Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Medicomp, Inc.Inventors: Sean Marcus, Chris Chang, Scott Baskerville
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Patent number: 10102666Abstract: A method includes determining, at a first time, a representation of a first head rotation of a head mounted display (HMD) using a first inertial sensor sample stream and rendering, at an application processor, a texture based on the first head rotation. The method further includes determining, at a second time subsequent to the first time, a representation of a second head rotation of the HMD using a second inertial sensor sample stream having a higher sampling rate than the first inertial sensor sample stream, and generating, at a compositor, a rotated representation of the texture based on a difference between the first head rotation and the second head rotation.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2016Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: GOOGLE LLCInventors: Evan Hardesty Parker, Johnny Chung Lee, Adrian Wong
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Patent number: 10097439Abstract: A mobile communication device that performs self-testing. The device comprises a radio transceiver, a non-transitory memory, a processor, and a self-testing application stored in the non-transitory memory. When executed by the processor the self-testing application determines a location of the device, after determining the device location and within a predefined period of time, establishes a communication session via the radio transceiver with a self-test analysis server, and receives a self-test manifest from the self-test analysis server, where the self-test manifest identifies a self-test.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2016Date of Patent: October 9, 2018Assignee: Sprint Communications Company L.P.Inventors: Zheng Cai, Zheng Fang, Yu Wang
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Patent number: 10091563Abstract: To provide an environmental sensor with reduced power consumption. A semiconductor device includes a first sensor, a second sensor, a control circuit, a transmission amplifier, a modulation circuit, a memory device, an analog-to-digital converter circuit, and an antenna. The memory device and the analog-to-digital converter circuit each include a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor is formed in a channel region. The second sensor is an optical sensor, and has a function of transmitting a trigger signal to the control circuit when receiving laser light. The control circuit has a function of transmitting a control signal to the first sensor, the transmission amplifier, the modulation circuit, the memory device, and the analog-to-digital converter circuit when receiving the trigger signal. The first sensor is a sensor that senses a physical or chemical quantity, and the measured data is subjected to digital conversion by the analog-to-digital converter circuit and stored in the memory device.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Semiconductor Energy Laboratory Co., Ltd.Inventor: Jun Koyama
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Patent number: 10091463Abstract: A method and system that allows healthcare providers, hospitals, skilled nursing facilities and other persons to monitor disabled, elderly or other high-risk individuals to prevent or reduce falls and/or mitigate the impact of a fall by delivering automated notification of “at risk” behavior and falls by such an individual being monitored where assistance is required. The monitored individual is virtually represented as a blob object of at least a specific size by a computerized monitoring system and such system detects and alerts when the blob object enters or crosses into a virtually defined or designated blob detection zone and remains in the zone for at least a predetermined period of time.Type: GrantFiled: February 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.Inventor: Neil Kusens
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Patent number: 10076244Abstract: A physiological monitoring system includes a near-end portable monitoring module for generating first sensed data, capturing a user's first image, an image sensing module for synchronizing the first sensed data and the first image to form first combination data, and searching and connecting the corresponding near-end portable monitoring module to receive the first sensed data and display the near-end information display module corresponding to the screen of the first combination data, when the first sensed data includes a warning signal, the first combination data is transmitted and stored in the Internet by the second communication unit within a time period from a first time before the warning signal is issued to a second time for releasing the warning signal, and the first combination data within the time period from the first time to the second time is transmitted to the near-end information display module to display the first combination data.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2017Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: TAIWAN AULISA MEDICAL DEVICES TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Augustine Yen Lien
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Patent number: 10039460Abstract: An apparatus to enable individuals to record neural activity. The apparatus is designed to be produced at a low cost and may be configured to be disposable or capable of a limited number of uses. The apparatus comprises electrodes, a flexible housing sealably enclosing an energy storage device and an integrated circuit having a memory, a processor, and on-board memory. The electrodes capture the neural activity signals. The integrated circuit samples the neural activity signals and stores corresponding data in memory.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2013Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: MiSleeping, Inc.Inventor: Todd J. Lang
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Patent number: 10043374Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including obtaining an environmental parameter, wherein the environmental parameter indicates a state parameter of targeted monitoring space; processing the environmental parameter to obtain a processing result; selecting, on the basis of the processing result, a target monitoring policy corresponding to the environmental parameter from at least a first monitoring policy and a second monitoring policy, wherein a first monitoring mode of the first monitoring policy is different from a second monitoring mode of the second monitoring policy; and processing input from the targeted monitoring space according to the target monitoring policy. Other aspects are described and claimed.Type: GrantFiled: December 29, 2016Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: Lenovo (Beijing) LimitedInventors: Fangfei Dong, Wenlin Yan
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Patent number: 10043369Abstract: A system for sending medical emergency alerts including a device body adapted to be attached to a user, an accelerometer connected to the device body, a wireless communications module, a user interface, a processor in communication with the accelerometer, the wireless communications module, and the user interface, a memory in communication with the processor, the memory including instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive acceleration data from the accelerometer, analyze the acceleration data to determine if a fall condition is present, and when the fall condition is present, communicate, via the wireless communication module, an alert to a caregiver mobile device, wherein the alert is adapted to indicate that the user wearing the device body has fallen.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2015Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: BETTER ALERTS, LLCInventors: Douglas Hopkins, Shareif Hall, Robert J McNeill
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Patent number: 10034617Abstract: A data collection unit obtains physiological data from a subject interface on a subject. The subject interface can be connected to the data collection unit. When the subject interface is connected to the data collection unit, subject interface contacts on the subject interface make contact with data collection unit contacts on the data collection unit. Some of the data collection unit contacts are for communicating physiological data from the subject interface to the data collection unit. Some of the contacts are for powering the data collection unit upon the subject interface being connected to the data collection unit and for powering down the data collection unit upon the subject interface being disconnected from the data collection unit.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2016Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: BRAEMAR MANUFACTURING, LLCInventors: Erich Vlach, Charles Gropper
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Patent number: 10039143Abstract: A wireless sensor pod and associated method use a trigger event to pair with a master device. The wireless sensor pod includes an inertial sensor for detecting physical movement of the wireless sensor pod, a wireless transceiver, a processor communicatively coupled to the inertial sensor and the wireless transceiver, and a memory communicatively coupled with the processor and storing machine readable instructions. When the machine readable instructions are executed by the processor, they are capable of: detecting, using the inertial sensor, a first trigger event caused by the physical movement, and when the first trigger event is detected, transmitting, using the wireless transceiver, a communication to pair the wireless sensor pod with a master device.Type: GrantFiled: December 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 31, 2018Assignee: 4iiii Innovations Inc.Inventors: Kipling William Fyfe, Gregory Charles Lund, Billy Cheuk Wai Chan, Thomas Richard Williams
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Patent number: 10025964Abstract: Disclosed is a system and method for tracking people in a retail store. The system uses the retail store's digital map, video cameras, unique identifiers, video analytics, geo location technology and a customer's mobile device. The unique identifiers may be labels on hats using, for example, invisible ink or magnetic ink. The digital map of the retail store is used to track people. The user of the tracking system is able to track their party throughout the store even if the other people in the party do not have a mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 17, 2018Assignee: WALMART APOLLO, LLCInventors: Donald R. High, Brian Gerard McHale
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Patent number: 10019690Abstract: An intellectual-productivity analysis apparatus includes a presentation device, an input device, and an evaluation device. The presentation device presents a plurality of questions to a test subject. The input device allows the test subject input an answer to each question. The evaluation device includes a work memory part and an evaluating arithmetic part. The work memory part stores the answering time from a time when a question is presented on the presentation device to a time when the answer is inputted into the input device for each of the plurality of questions. The evaluating arithmetic part calculates an evaluation value on the intellectual productivity of the test subject during a measurement period of measuring the answering time of each of the plurality of questions by extracting a feature amount from the set of the answering time stored in the work memory part.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2013Date of Patent: July 10, 2018Assignee: Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.Inventors: Fumiaki Oobayashi, Mikio Iwakawa, Hiroshi Shimoda, Hirotake Ishii, Kazune Miyagi, Kotaro Oishi, Shutaro Kunimasa, Kosuke Uchiyama, Kyoichi Seo
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Patent number: 9996673Abstract: A method and system for monitoring a user's intoxication including receiving a set of signals, derived from a set of samples collected from the user at a set of time points; providing a sobriety task to the user proximal to a time point of the set of time points; generating a performance dataset characterizing performance of the sobriety task by the user; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing a demographic profile of the user and/or a physiological state of the user; determining a set of values of an intoxication metric, derived from the set of signals; generating a predicted temporal profile of the intoxication metric for the user based upon the set of values, the set of time points, and the supplementary dataset; generating an analysis of the user's sobriety based upon the performance dataset and the predicted temporal profile; and providing a notification to the user based upon the analysis.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2016Date of Patent: June 12, 2018Assignee: KHN Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Keith Harry Nothacker, Pauline Anne Basaran, Stacey Ilene Rettus, Michael Jurgen Strasser, Imraan Aziz, John Paul Walton, Zachary Michael Saul
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Patent number: 9990827Abstract: A patient care system and a corresponding method that provide patient monitoring. The system includes a server, at least one patient communication device, and at least one caregiver communication device. The communication devices send receiving signals and notifications wirelessly to/from the server, and may be adapted to be worn on a user's wrist. Notifications can be sent to the caregiver communication device to notify the user to provide care to a patient in response to a patient request for assistance based on defined conditions, which may be proximity based. The server may track all received and sent notifications and may provide analytics of this information to improve quality of healthcare in a facility.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2015Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignee: RISTCALL LLCInventors: Srinath Vaddepally, Ameya Bhat, Yicheng Bai
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Patent number: 9974625Abstract: Apparatus and methods for identifying and counting objects having identifiers entering and exiting a surgical field are provided. In one embodiment, the apparatus has an entry scanner, a hand held scanner and an exit scanner for generating a detection field and for receiving data which identifies said objects. In another embodiment, the apparatus has a plurality of lower antennas and an upper antenna for generating a detection field and for receiving data which identifies said objects. Various surgical devices with identifiers and methods for preventing electromagnetic coupling between and protecting objects and identifier are also provided. The invention further provides apparatus and methods comprising a handheld scanner and a mat adapted to underlie a patient during a surgical procedure.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: STRYKER COMBO L.L.C.Inventors: Steven J. Fleck, David Szakelyhidi, Gautam Gandhi
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Patent number: 9974969Abstract: Systems and techniques for centralized management and servicing of medical equipment such as automated external defibrillators (AEDs) are described herein. A medical equipment management system is described that includes a database that includes status information for a plurality of AEDs, wherein the status information includes a functional status for one or more of the plurality of AEDs, and a computer configured to receive status updates from the plurality of AEDs, update the status information in the database with the status updates, receive a request to access the status information for the plurality of AEDs, and send the status information for the plurality of AEDs, wherein the status information for the plurality of AEDs is grouped based on user-defined geographic regions in which the plurality of AEDs is located and indicates one or more sites associated with the plurality of AEDs.Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2017Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: ZOLL Medical CorporationInventors: Ziad F Elghazzawi, Ian B Durrant, Henry Clay Constantine, III
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Patent number: 9971869Abstract: An information technology system for a healthcare facility is provided. The system includes a first computer device to keep track of rounding intervals for caregivers and to determine whether the caregivers successfully complete their rounds in a timely manner for their assigned patients. The system also has a real time locating system (RTLS) that tracks locations of the plurality of caregivers and that is in communication with the first computer device. The system further has a number of graphical displays in communication with the first computer device. Each graphical display is operable to display a list of patients for whom rounds are due and to display reminder messages to the plurality of caregivers relating to rounding.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 15, 2018Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.Inventors: David M. Girardeau, Kelly F. Walton, Frederick C. Davidson, Kiana M. Dezelon
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Patent number: 9962081Abstract: Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for remote monitoring. In some example implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include receiving, at a remote monitor, a notification message representative of an event detected, by a server, from analyte sensor data obtained from a receiver monitoring an analyte state of a host; presenting, at the remote monitor, the notification message to activate the remote monitor, wherein the remote monitor is configured by the server to receive the notification message to augment the receiver monitoring of the analyte state of the host; accessing, by the remote monitor, the server, in response to the presenting of the notification message; and receiving, in response to the accessing, information including at least the analyte sensor data. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2015Date of Patent: May 8, 2018Assignee: DexCom, Inc.Inventors: Michael Robert Mensinger, Eric Cohen, Phil Mayou, Eli Reihman, Katherine Yerre Koehler, Rian Draeger, Angela Marie Traven
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Patent number: 9955877Abstract: A wearable, wireless, non-invasive device applicable to the hand or foot, a wireless system, and a method for reducing the risk of different critical situations of hypoxia and/or bradycardia possibly occurring in victims of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), Pierre Robin Sequence patients, preterm babies, and adults, and for the prevention of the sleep apnea, is based on use of a sensor and a computing algorithm sufficient to reduce false alarms and save lives. The device is worn on the hand or foot of a user. Part of the device may be placed on the proximal phalange of a finger or a foot, or even in the palm. The electronics of the device may be placed inside gloves or booties of different sizes to accommodate the hands or feet of different wearers. The device measures blood oxygen saturation and heart rate through a sensor that is preferably a pulse oximeter.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2015Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Inventor: Diego Alejandro Delia
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Patent number: 9948398Abstract: Systems, methods, software and apparatus enable linking of a wearable end user communication device (EUD) to an intermediate communication device (ICD) utilizing optical symbol sequence matching. Optical symbol reference data corresponding to an optical symbol sequence displayed on the EUD is obtained from the EUD by the ICD. Optical symbol input data is also acquired by the ICD (e.g., via user inputs, EUD device proximity data, image acquisition). The devices are linked if the optical symbol reference data and optical symbol input data match. The optical symbol reference data can be displayed, allowing user confirmation of a match with the optical symbol sequence displayed on the EUD. An ICD user interface touchscreen can present users with selectable color inputs to replicate the optical symbol sequence displayed on the EUD, for example using an LED array. Communications between the devices before and after linking can utilize Bluetooth low energy.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: ORION LABSInventors: Greg Albrecht, Aaron Solocheck, Ellen Juhlin
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Patent number: 9943229Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a system and a method for monitoring health of a patient by using wireless sensor devices positioned to monitor one or more physiological parameters of the patient, and a gateway device in wireless communication with the wireless sensor devices, the wireless sensor devices and the gateway device forming a wireless body area network. The gateway device includes two or more radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) connected in at least a series or a parallel connection and provides multiple frequency channels for receiving sensor data from the wireless sensor devices, where the sensor data is transmitted based on time synchronization signals and an multi-channel adaptive protocol.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: GENERAL ELECTRIC COPANYInventors: Steven William Wik, Timo Tapani Hakala
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Patent number: 9947199Abstract: One or more processors determine whether a hazard that is detected by a first mobile device exists based on data received from at least one second mobile device. The second mobile device is within a proximity to the first mobile device, which is determined based on a type of the hazard. One or more processors respond to a determination that the hazard does exist by determining a course of action. The course of action is configured for a user based on at least one attribute of the user. One or more processors send the course of action to the first mobile device.Type: GrantFiled: June 19, 2014Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Vani Mittal, Anbumunee Ponniah
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Patent number: 9948638Abstract: A system and method for securely and automatically identifying users to an inquirer for purposes of obtaining user identifying information is described. The system consisting of at least one client device associated with a user, at least one inquiring device associated with a host, a client information server and a network. The system allows computer based systems to automatically authenticate the identities of a plurality of users entering a physical space and obtain information pertaining to user preferences. The inquiring device may enable transactions with the user based on the authentication. The authentication may be enhanced by capturing biometric data from the user by the inquiring device as well as identifying known associates physically present with the user at the time of authentication.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Inventor: Chon Hock Leow
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Patent number: 9948330Abstract: A Bluetooth transmitter with features to reduce the likelihood of unwitting loss includes a first housing, a second housing, a circuit board, and a button. The second housing couples to the first housing. A side of the second housing opposite to the first housing defines at least one groove for connecting to another housing or a holder. The circuit board is secured in the second housing. The button couples to the first housing and connects to the circuit board through the first housing. The button is configured to initiate a Bluetooth signal transmission.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2017Date of Patent: April 17, 2018Assignee: Chiun Mai Communication Systems, Inc.Inventor: Hsin-Chih Liu
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Patent number: 9932547Abstract: A fermentation monitoring system may measure the weight of a fermenting product to determine the progress of fermentation. The weight of a fermenting batch may decrease as carbon dioxide is given off, and a continuous or periodic weight measurement may be used as a control input to a fermentation system, which may adjust temperature to control fermentation or detect that fermentation is not progressing as expected. Such a system may be to use a weight scale attached to a fermentation vessel and have a control system capable of adjusting the temperature of the fermenting contents. One implementation may have a scale mounted inside a temperature controlled fermentation cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2015Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: PicoBrew, Inc.Inventors: William H. Mitchell, James B. Mitchell
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Patent number: 9928725Abstract: A method and device for reminding a user are provided. The method includes: monitoring a region in which a mobile terminal presents; when a reminding operation of the mobile terminal is activated, determining a target region in which a human body presents; and if the target region doesn't comprise the region in which the mobile terminal presents, sending a reminding notice to a reminding device in the target region for instructing the reminding device to send a reminder corresponding to the reminding operation to the user.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2016Date of Patent: March 27, 2018Assignee: XIAOMI INC.Inventors: Yi Gao, Hongqiang Wang, Yunyuan Ge
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Patent number: 9923644Abstract: A method for setting up a medical network for carrying out at least one medical function is disclosed. The medical network comprises network nodes and the network nodes are set up for communicating with one another by an initialization step, wherein the network nodes exchange initialization information that includes information characterizing the network nodes and a self-organization step where the network nodes define their role distribution. A work step where the network carries out the medical function and the two network nodes interact in the role of distribution defined in the self-organization step.Type: GrantFiled: October 23, 2012Date of Patent: March 20, 2018Assignee: Roche Diabetes Care, Inc.Inventors: Sybille Froech, Bernd Roesicke
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Patent number: 9907481Abstract: A data collection unit obtains physiological data from a subject interface on a subject. The subject interface can be connected to the data collection unit. When the subject interface is connected to the data collection unit, subject interface contacts on the subject interface make contact with data collection unit contacts on the data collection unit. Some of the data collection unit contacts are for communicating physiological data from the subject interface to the data collection unit. Some of the contacts are for powering the data collection unit upon the subject interface being connected to the data collection unit and for powering down the data collection unit upon the subject interface being disconnected from the data collection unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: BRAEMAR MANUFACTURING, LLCInventors: Erich Vlach, Charles Gropper
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Patent number: 9907050Abstract: A system and method for managing alerts of a mobile communications device is provided. The system includes the device, a processor, and a sensor for monitoring activity of a user and generating sensor data indicative of the activity. The processor is configured for processing the sensor data to determine a current activity of the user; detecting an alert corresponding to an incoming communication; classifying the alert as being immediate or deferred based at least in part on the current activity. If the alert is immediate, the processor is configured to announce the alert without delay; otherwise, the processor is configured to announce the alert after a delay. The delay can terminate when a holdback timer expires or the current activity changes to an activity that indicates that the user can be notified.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: Arqaam IncorporatedInventor: Nazih Almalki
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Patent number: 9886751Abstract: A pill verification system obtains a prescription filled at a pharmacy and gathers information of the pills being dispensed for a remote pharmacist to verify the prescription. As pills are dispensed to a pill vial to fill the prescription, a pill imaging system captures images of the pills, and a pill vial imaging system captures an image of the pill vial. The prescription, pill images, and pill vial image are transmitted to a remote verification system. A pharmacist is presented with the prescription, images of substantially all pills filling the prescription, and the pill vial of the prescription to verify the prescription is correct. The remote verification system may present prescriptions filled from many different pharmacies, permitting increased rate of verification and one pharmacist to support many pharmacies. The pharmacist's verification is transmitted to the pill verification system and displayed for a technician to complete verification of the pills.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2014Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: PerceptiMed, Inc.Inventors: Alan Jacobs, Jennifer Jacobs, Yana Nikitina
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Patent number: 9861840Abstract: Receiving machine-readable information about an anchor point, analyzing that information to determine if connecting a load to the anchor point would be safe, and reporting the results of this analysis to a user.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2016Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: John E. Moore, Jr., Jeffrey K. Price, Robert R. Wentworth, Stanley C. Wood
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Patent number: 9861292Abstract: A method and a device for determining biological impedance data of a person, in which least one impedance value is measured with the use of at least two electrodes and is transmitted to an evaluation unit. In the area of at least one output device, information concerning the person is made available for assuming an optimum body posture for the measurement of the biological impedance.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2012Date of Patent: January 9, 2018Assignee: SECA AGInventors: Frederik Vogel, Marc-Oliver Von Maydell
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Patent number: 9860330Abstract: In a method causing a processor in a communication terminal to execute operations that include; detecting whether the communication terminal, which is connected via a network to a wearable terminal that is attached to part of a body of a user, is being manipulated; if the communication terminal is detected as not being manipulated, transmitting notification information that includes push notification to a wearable terminal; if the communication terminal is detected as being manipulated, transmitting the notification information to the communication terminal, without transmitting the notification information to the wearable terminal.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2016Date of Patent: January 2, 2018Assignee: PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY CORPORATION OF AMERICAInventors: Hideshi Aoki, Tetsuji Fuchikami, Kazuki Funase, Akinori Ozeki
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Patent number: 9852607Abstract: A personal alert device for sending a panic signal and location coordinates includes a housing that defines an internal space. An inlet is positioned in a first end of the housing. The first end is configured to position between lips of a user. An outlet is positioned in the housing such that air passing from the inlet through the internal space and exiting through the outlet generates a whistling sound. A wall, coupled to the housing and positioned in the internal space, defines a compartment. An electronics module positioned in the compartment is configured to wirelessly communicate, to receive location coordinates, and to be activated by a user blowing air through the inlet. The housing emits the whistling sound and the electronics module is compelled to wirelessly communicate the panic signal and the location coordinates to at least one cellular phone and to emergency response personnel.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2016Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Inventor: Willie Simmons
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Patent number: 9852593Abstract: A system is provided that includes a security system that protects a secured geographic area, a geographic location outside of the secured area of an authorized human user of the security system saved in a memory of the security system, and a processor of the security system that tracks activity of the authorized user by geographic location outside of the secured area and generates an alert upon detecting that a difference between the tracked geographic location of the authorized user and saved location exceeds a threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2015Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Manjunatha Divakara, Balamurugan Ganesan
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Patent number: 9846912Abstract: At least a method for determining risk behavior of a driver is described. While a vehicle is being driven, data is obtained related to the position and movement of a wireless communications device. The data may indicate the type of behavior exhibited by the driver while the vehicle is being driven.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: December 19, 2017Assignee: Allstate Insurance CompanyInventors: Mark V. Slusar, Joseph Kleinhenz, Eric D. Huls
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Patent number: 9839377Abstract: A subject person specifying apparatus includes a processor, and a memory storing a program causing the processor to perform acquiring characteristic quantities of variations of heart rate related to a meal of a subject person from heart rate data of the subject person as a target of an individual specifying process, calculating a distribution range of history values of the characteristic quantities associated with a plurality of candidates, and extracting the candidate corresponding to the subject person from within the plurality of candidates, based on a relation between the characteristic quantities acquired from the subject person and the distribution range of the history values of the characteristic quantities.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 2015Date of Patent: December 12, 2017Assignee: FUJITSU LIMITEDInventors: Shinji Hotta, Akihiro Inomata
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Patent number: 9817948Abstract: A device and system are provided for notifying a user contact of the status of a user of a portable device. The status is determined by the portable device collecting user provided information and device collected information relevant to a user of portable device. The portable device may then transmit the device collected information and the user provided information to a server that in turn performs an analysis on the device collected information and the user provided information to determine whether a triggering event has occurred. If it is determined that a triggering event has occurred, the server will proceed to send a status update regarding the user of the portable device to preset user contacts. The triggering event is determined to have occurred based on preset user conditions and algorithms and artificial intelligence being executed at the server.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2016Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Inventor: Josh Swank