Diagnostic Testing Patents (Class 600/300)
  • Patent number: 11944277
    Abstract: A device for distending a body lumen for enhanced visualization with a capsule endoscope that includes a camera lens includes an attachment element configured to attach to the capsule endoscope and a plurality of struts extending from the attachment element and meeting at an apex. The plurality of struts are configured to extend both axially and radially away from the camera lens so as to form a frame therearound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Neptune Medical Inc.
    Inventors: Alexander Q. Tilson, Garrett J. Gomes
  • Patent number: 11948690
    Abstract: Pulmonary function estimation can include detecting one or more cough events from a time series of audio signals generated by an electronic device of a user. Based on the one or more cough events, one or more lung function metrics of the user can be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ebrahim Nematihosseinabadi, Md M. Rahman, Viswam Nathan, Korosh Vatanparvar, Jilong Kuang, Jun Gao
  • Patent number: 11937944
    Abstract: A wearable electronic device includes a body, a housing component, a band operable to attach the body to a body part of a user, and a force sensor coupled to the housing component. The force sensor is operable to produce a force signal based on a force exerted between the body part of the user and the housing component. A processing unit of the wearable electronic device receives the force signal from the force sensor and determines the force exerted on the housing component based thereon. The processing unit may use that force to determine a tightness of the band, determine health information for the user, adjust determined force exerted on a cover glass, and/or to perform various other actions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler S. Bushnell, Steven J. Martisauskas, Erik G. de Jong, Andrzej T. Baranski, Serhan O. Isikman, Steven J. Banaska, Todd K. Whitehurst, Ming L. Sartee
  • Patent number: 11942222
    Abstract: A medical device for assessing clinical patient deterioration in an in-patient hospital environment is provided. The medical device includes a processor and sensors that couple externally to a skin of the patient to acquire electrocardiogram (ECG) and other physiologic signals. The processor is configured to receive a medical history of the patient; generate physiologic data, including ECG data, over a period of time based on one or more physiologic signals; and execute a risk assessment process associated with a clinical condition of the patient. The risk assessment process analyzes the physiologic data and the medical history of the patient to generate a risk estimate of deterioration of the patient's clinical condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A. Freeman, Christopher L. Kaufman
  • Patent number: 11942194
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for assessing a mental state of a subject in a single session or over multiple different sessions, using for example an automated module to present and/or formulate at least one query based in part on one or more target mental states to be assessed. The query may be configured to elicit at least one response from the subject. The query may be transmitted in an audio, visual, and/or textual format to the subject to elicit the response. Data comprising the response from the subject can be received. The data can be processed using one or more individual, joint, or fused models. One or more assessments of the mental state associated with the subject can be generated for the single session, for each of the multiple different sessions, or upon completion of one or more sessions of the multiple different sessions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Ellipsis Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Elizabeth E. Shriberg, Michael Aratow, Mainul Islam, Amir Hossein Harati Nejad Torbati, Tomasz Rutowski, David Lin, Yang Lu, Farshid Haque, Robert D. Rogers
  • Patent number: 11938322
    Abstract: Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to methods and apparatuses used for slow wave activity (SWA) optimization. An example method includes receiving one or more bio-signals from a user and classifying sleep stages by processing the bio-signals. The method further include determining dominant peripheral nervous system (PNS) oscillations based on the bio-signals and as a function of time and stage of sleep, and characterizing at least one property of the dominant PNS oscillations, including a phase, a phase shift, an amplitude, and/or frequency. The method further include providing an indication of an optimal window for maximizing SWA generation based on the phase, the phase shift, the amplitude, or the frequency. The indication is provided to stimulation circuitry that delivers stimulation to the user within the optimal window. Feedback is provided responsive to the stimulation based on an EEG signal of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: SRI International
    Inventors: Massimiliano de Zambotti, Fiona C. Baker, Ian M. Colrain, Mohamad Forouzanfar, Aimee Goldstone, Adrian Willoughby
  • Patent number: 11931165
    Abstract: An apparatus for use in monitoring or treating a wound is disclosed. The apparatus can include a wound dressing, a circuit board, and a sensor. The wound dressing can be positioned over a wound of a patient and absorb wound exudate from the wound. The circuit board can be incorporated in or coupled to the wound dressing and include a first conductive pathway extending around at least part of a perimeter of a first side of the circuit board. The first conductive pathway can be electrically coupled to an electrical ground for the circuit board. The sensor can be mounted on the circuit board and output a signal usable to determine a value indicative of a physiological parameter of the patient. The first conductive pathway can protect the sensor against an electrostatic discharge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Smith & Nephew PLC
    Inventors: Ben Alan Askem, Fernando Bettani, Alberto Fasan, Allan Kenneth Frazer Grugeon Hunt, Felix Clarence Quintanar, Daniel Lee Steward
  • Patent number: 11935637
    Abstract: Disclosed are a device, a computer-readable medium, and techniques that provide an onboarding process and an adaptivity process for a drug delivery device. A processor executing an onboarding process determines whether a history of delivered insulin to a user meets certain sufficiency requirements. The onboarding process enables a processor to cause the drug delivery device to administer doses of insulin to a user according to an initial total daily insulin dose calculation that is determined based on the sufficiency of the insulin delivery history. The initial total daily insulin may be adapted according to the adaptivity process as new insulin delivery is collected. The insulin delivery history, when sufficient, may be used to set total daily insulin dosages that enable automated insulin delivery upon replacement of a drug delivery device. The adaptivity process may be implemented to modify an initial insulin delivery doses to provide adapted insulin delivery doses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: INSULET CORPORATION
    Inventors: Joon Bok Lee, Yibin Zheng, Jason O'Connor, Trang Ly, Eric Benjamin
  • Patent number: 11934583
    Abstract: A data communication apparatus comprising: a plurality of data communication devices comprising a sensor operable to output contextual data associated with a wearer, a plurality of haptic energy generators operable to output a haptic energy toward skin of the wearer, and a control system operable to maintain a data feedback loop with the wearer by causing the plurality of haptic energy generators to output the haptic energy responsive to one of the contextual data and an external data source in data communication with the control system; an electrical network operable to transmit data and power between the plurality of data communication devices; and a wearable structure comprising a biocompatible material shaped to house the plurality of data communication devices and the electrical network, maintain a plurality of air gaps between the plurality of data communication devices, and define a skin contacting surface that is directly engageable with the skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: DATAFEEL INC.
    Inventor: Matthew Robert Leaper
  • Patent number: 11931168
    Abstract: Systems and methods for speech-controlled or speech-enabled health monitoring of a subject are described. A device includes a substrate configured to support a subject, a plurality of non-contact sensors configured to capture acoustic signals and force signals with respect to the subject, an audio interface configured to communicate with the subject, and a processor in connection with the plurality of sensors and the audio interface. The processor configured to determine biosignals from one or more of the acoustic signals and the force signals to monitor a subject's health status, and detect presence of speech in the acoustic signals. The audio interface configured to interactively communicate with at least one of the subject or an entity associated with the subject based on at least one of an action needed due to the subject's health status and a verbal command in detected speech.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Sleep Number Corporation
    Inventors: Omid Sayadi, Steven Jay Young, Carl Hewitt, Alan Luckow
  • Patent number: 11935399
    Abstract: Sensing devices in an installation state are flexibly managed and the sensing devices are controlled appropriately. The sensing devices each include a sensor, a selection control unit, and a notification unit. The sensor measures the ambient environment to generate a measurement signal. The selection control unit controls the selection state of the sensing device in response to the measurement signal from the sensor. The notification unit issues a notification that the sensing device has been selected in a case where the selection state indicates that the sensing device has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Manabu Kimura
  • Patent number: 11931169
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and computer program products for recording and monitoring pain are disclosed. A device may record a date and time corresponding to a pain entry, a pain type corresponding to the pain entry, and a pain intensity corresponding to the pain entry. The device may further record a pain location on a body corresponding to the pain entry. The device may also display the pain entry. In various embodiments, the device may display a graphical pain representation superimposed over the pain location on the body. The device may also read an input encircling the pain location on the body. The device may further display a plurality of pain entries in a plot relative to time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Nanolume, LLC
    Inventors: Ronald E. Harbut, Chris Rouw
  • Patent number: 11935656
    Abstract: Presented are systems and methods for the accurate acquisition of medical measurement data of a body part of patient. To assist in acquiring accurate medical measurement data, an automated diagnostic and treatment system provides instructions to the patient to allow the patient to precisely position a medical instrument in proximity to a target spot of a body part of patient. For a stethoscope examination, the steps may include utilizing object tracking to determine if the patient has moved the stethoscope to a recording site; utilizing DSP processing to confirm that the stethoscope is in operation, utilizing DSP processing to generate a pre-processed audio sample from a recorded audio signal; using machine learning (ML) to determine if a signal of interest (SOI) is present in the pre-processed sample. If SoI is present, using ML to evaluate characteristics in the signal which indicate the presence of abnormalities in the organ being measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: James Stewart Bates, Kristopher Perry, Chaitanya Prakash Potaraju, Pranav Bhatkal, Aditya Shirvalkar, Tristan Royal
  • Patent number: 11925349
    Abstract: Disclosed is a surgical instrument, comprising an end effector configured to grasp tissue. The end effector comprises a jaw, and a staple cartridge seatable in the jaw, wherein the staple cartridge comprises a sensor array. The surgical instrument further comprises a power source configured to supply power to the staple cartridge, and a transmission system. The transmission system is configured to wirelessly transmit the power from the surgical instrument to the staple cartridge, monitor an efficiency of a transfer of the power from the surgical instrument to the staple cartridge, and adjust a transfer parameter based on the efficiency of the transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Cilag GmbH International
    Inventors: Frederick E. Shelton, IV, Patrick L. Creamer
  • Patent number: 11929165
    Abstract: A closed-loop control for a medical therapeutic system is disclosed that includes one or more processes or components for/in the medical therapeutic system, a controller configured to determine whether one or more operations of the process(es) or component(s) are within a corresponding safety envelope, and one or more sensors. The process(es)/component(s) are configured to deliver a controlled amount of a substance, energy or force to a patient. The sensor(s) are configured to measure or determine a value of a measurable parameter of the process(es)/component(s) and/or effected by the operation(s), and provide the value(s) of the measurable parameter(s) to the controller. The controller determines whether each of the operation(s) are within the corresponding safety envelope according to a corresponding function that mathematically describes the operation. The safety envelope corresponds to known safe values of the measurable parameter, or an unmeasured parameter based on the measurable parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Mast Medical Systems, Inc.
    Inventor: Charles Harrison Benton Caudill
  • Patent number: 11928645
    Abstract: A method, system and apparatus for coordinated distribution of hairstyling products using automatic pumps connected over a computer network is described, including, identifying a customer model of a customer, and receiving a product request for the customer. Based on the product request, a product and an amount of the product is determined to be distributed and a networked pump us selected, based on the product and the amount. For the selected pump, a request for distribution for the amount of the product is generated, and the selected pump automatically distributes the amount of the product based on the request for distribution. A confirmation of a distribution of the amount of the product is received from the selected pump, and the customer model is updated based on the amount of the product distributed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: BJDS, INC.
    Inventors: Quis T Bakir, Robinson B Nunez
  • Patent number: 11928632
    Abstract: A method of deception detection based upon ocular information of a subject provides a video camera configured to record a close-up view of a subject's eye. A cognitive state model is configured to determine a high to a low cognitive load experienced by the subject. An emotional state model is configured to determine a high to a low state of arousal experienced by the subject. After asking a question, the ocular information is processed to identify changes in ocular signals of the subject. The cognitive state and emotional state models are evaluated based solely on the changes in ocular signals where a probability of the subject being either truthful or deceptive is estimated for a binary output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Senseye, Inc.
    Inventors: David Zakariaie, Jared Bowden, Patricia Herrmann, Seth Weisberg, Andrew R. Sommerlot, Taumer Anabtawi, Joseph Brown, Alexander Rowe
  • Patent number: 11918333
    Abstract: The exemplified intrinsic phase space tomography methods and systems facilitate the analysis and evaluation of complex, quasi-periodic system by generating computed phase-space tomographic images as a representation of the dynamics of the quasi-periodic cardiac systems. The computed phase-space tomographic images can be presented to a physician to assist in the assessment of presence or non-presence of disease. In some embodiments, the phase space tomographic images are used as input to a trained neural network classifier configured to assess for presence or non-presence of significant coronary artery disease.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Analytics For Life Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Grouchy, Meng Lei, Ian Shadforth, Sunny Gupta, Timothy William Fawcett Burton, Shyamlal Ramchandani
  • Patent number: 11918807
    Abstract: A method includes receiving monitoring data from at least one sensing device coupled to a subject and analyzing the monitoring data to identify one or more physiologic parameters of the subject. The method also includes providing signaling to at least one stimulating device in response to the identified physiologic parameters, the signaling comprising instructions to apply a stimulus to the subject. The method further includes receiving additional monitoring data from the at least one sensing device, analyzing the additional monitoring data to identify one or more changes in the one or more physiologic parameters of the subject after application of the stimulus to the subject, and providing additional signaling to the at least one stimulating device, the additional signaling comprising instructions to modify the stimulus applied to the subject based on the identified changes in the one or more physiologic parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: LifeLens Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Landy Toth, Robert S. Schwartz, Beth Schwartz
  • Patent number: 11922722
    Abstract: In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may determine that a user is in a presence of an information handling system (IHS); determine a digital image of a face of the user; determine an angle of the face of the user with respect to a vertical axis of a camera based at least on the digital image; determine that the face is facing a display associated with the IHS; determine an amount of time, which the user spends looking at the display; determine, via multiple sensors associated with the IHS, a heart rate and a respiratory rate associated with the user; determine that the user should move based at least on the first amount of time, the heart rate, the respiratory rate, and the angle; and display information indicating that the user should move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventor: Karunakar Palicherla Reddy
  • Patent number: 11915804
    Abstract: Systems, methods, and storage media useful in a healthcare computing platform to build and publish an integrated medical consultation report to a patient's primary electronic medical record are provided. The integrated medical consultation report presents up-to-date objective medical factors from the patient's medical record concurrently with a subjective medical summary from an authoring clinician. The integrated medical consultation report is stored as a unique medical document in the patient's primary electronic record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cerner Innovation, Inc.
    Inventors: Lori N. Cross, Rob Helton, Heather Rapp, Trent Ahlenius, John Moore, Lisa Pastine, Nicole McReeves
  • Patent number: 11911158
    Abstract: Aspects relate to systems and methods for determining actor status according to behavioral phenomena. An exemplary system includes at least an eye sensor, wherein the at least an eye sensor is configured to detect an eye parameter and at least a physiological sensor, wherein the at least a physiological sensor is configured to detect a circulatory parameter, and a processor in communication with the at least an eye speech sensor and the at least a physiological sensor and configured to determine an eye pattern as a function of the eye parameter and correlate the eye pattern and the circulatory parameter to a cognitive status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventors: Bradford R. Everman, Brian Scott Bradke
  • Patent number: 11911155
    Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring blood oxygen saturation of a subject is provided. The apparatus includes a unit configured for wearing on the subject's upper arm, the unit comprising first and second light sources configured to emit light of first and second wavelengths and a photodetector configured to detect light of the first and second wavelengths, where the light sources are arranged to direct light into the upper arm and the photodetector is arranged to detect light reflected from within the upper arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CURRENT HEALTH LIMITED
    Inventors: Stewart Whiting, Samuel Moreland, Hugh Carter, Morgan Smith
  • Patent number: 11915800
    Abstract: The invention is based on a patient recruitment system (10) having at least one patient recruitment server (16), which comprises at least one search routine (70) that is provided to search for patient data records (32) on the basis of recruitment characteristics (66). It is proposed that the patient recruitment server (16) comprises a notification routine (82) which is provided to send a recruitment notification (76) regarding at least one patient data record (32) found on the basis of the recruitment characteristics (66).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: CLINERION LTD
    Inventors: Andreas Walter, Ulf Claesson, Dominik Aronsky, Bernhard Bodenmann
  • Patent number: 11915827
    Abstract: A system for classification to prognostic labels includes a classification device configured to receive a first training set including a plurality of first data entries, each including at least an element of physiological state data and at least a correlated first prognostic label and a second training set including a plurality of second data entries, each including at least a second prognostic label and at least a correlated ameliorative process label, to record at least a physiological test sample, and to transmit the prognostic and ameliorative outputs to a user device. The system includes a prognostic label learner configured to generate the prognostic output as a function of the first training set and the physiological test sample and an ameliorative process label learner configured to generate the ameliorative output as a function of the second training set and the prognostic output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Inventor: Kenneth Neumann
  • Patent number: 11911173
    Abstract: A system for quantifying risk associated with preclinical indicators of one or more clinical skin conditions, the system is formed of a plurality of measurement tools in connection with a processor, the measurement tools configured to various pre-clinical indicators of the skin health of a subject' hand, where the processor is configured to calculate a score based on the combined data from the plurality of measurement tools, this score being representative of the subject's risk of future development of one or more clinical skin conditions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Deb IP Limited
    Inventors: Paul Blount, John Hines, Caroline Fellows, Chris Lang, Chris Mann, Kevin Ormandy
  • Patent number: 11907353
    Abstract: Systems and methods for controlling measurement units for a medical scale. One system includes a removable head unit configured to couple to a medical scale platform. The removable head unit includes a human machine interface (HMI) and an electronic processor coupled to the human machine interface. The electronic processor is configured to receive, via the HMI, a first user input selecting a permanent lock mode. The electronic processor is configured to, in response to receiving the user input, present a first authentication request and receive a second user input including a first authentication token. The electronic processor is configured to, when the first authentication token is valid, present a measurement unit selection prompt. The electronic processor is configured to receive a second user input selecting a measurement unit and, in response to receiving the second user input, activate the permanent lock mode based on the selected measurement unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Pelstar, LLC
    Inventors: Mark Winkler, Ken Harris, Rosalyn Ben-Chitrit
  • Patent number: 11908581
    Abstract: Apparatus for assessing medical risks of a patient includes an analytics engine and equipment that provides data to the analytics engine. The analytics engine analyzes the data from the equipment to determine a sepsis risk score, a falls risk score, and a pressure injury score. The apparatus further include displays that are communicatively coupled to the analytics engine and that display the sepsis, falls, and pressure injury risk scores. The displays include a status board display located at a master nurse station, an in-room display provided by a room station of a nurse call system, an electronic medical records (EMR) display of an EMR computer, and a mobile device display of a mobile device of a caregiver assigned to the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Hill-Rom Services, Inc.
    Inventors: Susan Kayser, Stacey A. Fitzgibbons, Johannes de Bie, Lori Ann Zapfe, Jotpreet Chahal, Eugene Urrutia, Christopher Keegan, Karrie Schwencer, Elaine Montambeau, Sherrod Faulks
  • Patent number: 11908573
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for coordinating service for a user assigned to a service unit of a service facility. The techniques include receiving user data associated with the user, or resource status data associated with a status of a resource. The techniques further include determining a classification of the user based on the user data, the classification corresponding to a condition or service status of the user. The user may then be assigned to a user group based on the classification of the user. The user group may be associated with a recommendation for treating the user. The resource may also be assigned to a resource group based on the resource status data. The techniques further include generating a visual representation of at least a portion of the service unit based on the assigned user group or assigned resource group, and providing the visual representation to a user device for presentation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: C/HCA, Inc.
    Inventors: Tyler Forehand, Edmund Jackson, Nathan Watkins, J R Allen
  • Patent number: 11908576
    Abstract: A healthcare management system for a healthcare team caring for a patient to serve a healthcare need of the patient includes a wearable sensor worn by the patient for obtaining healthcare data from the patient; a healthcare clinical system having an healthcare analysis subsystem for analyzing the healthcare data; and a relay device in communication selectively with the wearable sensor and the healthcare clinical system. The healthcare analysis subsystem includes an artificial intelligence (AI) engine, the AI engine having a plurality of clinical analysis modules, each clinical analysis module is directed to a respective predetermined medical area, the respective clinical analysis module analyzing the healthcare data with a respective learned algorithm directed to the respective predetermined medical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: EMFIT OY
    Inventors: Heikki Räisänen, Mikko Alasaukko-oja, Jukka Ranta, Timo Aittokoski, Jouni Mitjonen, Tomi Virtanen
  • Patent number: 11903739
    Abstract: A subcutaneously implantable device includes a housing, a first prong, and a second prong. A first electrode on the first prong is configured to contact the first lung. A second electrode on the device is configured to contact the first lung or a second lung. A third electrode on the second prong is configured to contact the heart or the tissue surrounding the heart. Sensing circuitry in the housing in electrical communication with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode is configured to measure an impedance in the first lung and/or the second lung, and/or a transthoracic impedance across the first lung and the second lung through the first electrode and the second electrode, and to measure an electrical signal from the heart through the third electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Calyan Technologies, Inc.
    Inventor: Yatheendhar D. Manicka
  • Patent number: 11903727
    Abstract: A method for power management of a wearable device or an implantable device comprising a sensor, the sensor configured for providing a physiological information of a user, the sensor being further configured to be operated in at least two power modes comprising a first power mode and a second power mode, wherein in the first power mode the physiological information of the user is gathered and in the second power mode the sensor consumes less power than in the first power mode, the method comprising: receiving a signal being indicative of whether a health device which is configured to treat a health condition of the user is in use, wherein the health device is positioned at a different location with respect to the user than the wearable device or the implantable device; and based on the signal operating the sensor for a time duration in the first power mode; and operating the sensor in the second power mode thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Declan Patrick Kelly, Michael Martin Scheja, Wei Chen, Rim Helaoui
  • Patent number: 11896447
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are techniques related to safeguards against separation from portable medicine delivery devices. In some embodiments, the techniques may involve monitoring a wireless connection established between a portable computing device and a portable medicine delivery device. The techniques may also involve making a determination, based on the result of the monitoring, that the portable medicine delivery device is outside a predetermined range of the portable computing device. The techniques may further involve generating a notification based on the determination. The notification may be indicative of a user of the portable computing device being unaccompanied by the portable medicine delivery device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic MiniMed, Inc.
    Inventors: Pratik J. Agrawal, Jack D. Pryor
  • Patent number: 11901061
    Abstract: Many physical therapy practitioners have not adopted telehealth because of practical, regulatory and/or payor/reimbursement complexities. Systems and methods described herein can facilitate the adaptation of telehealth in physical therapy. A unique first virtual physical therapy session for a first patient (at a first location) using a first instance of a physical therapy system can be conducted by a practitioner (at a location) at a time in a first channel. A a unique second virtual physical therapy appointment for a second patient (at a second location) using a second instance of the physical therapy system can be conducted by the practitioner (at the location) at the time in a second channel. The practitioner monitors the first channel and the second channel during the time in order to coach, correct, and/or counsel the first patient and the second patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: PT GENIE, LLC
    Inventors: Reuben Gobezie, Laurence D. Higgins
  • Patent number: 11901046
    Abstract: A method and system for providing therapy to an individual, the method comprising: transmitting a log of use dataset associated with communication behavior of the individual during a time period; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing mobility of the individual in association with the time period; generating a survey dataset upon retrieving responses provided by the individual to at least one of a set of surveys, associated with a set of time points of the time period; generating a predictive model from a passive dataset derived from the log of use dataset and the supplementary dataset and the survey dataset; generating a report summarizing a mental health state of the individual, associated with at least a portion of the time period, from the passive dataset, the survey dataset, and an output of the predictive model; and rendering information from the report to a coach associated with the individual.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: OrangeDot, Inc.
    Inventors: Sai Moturu, Anmol Madan, Karan Singh, Abhishek Nath, Amanda Withrow, Aditya Sharma
  • Patent number: 11900481
    Abstract: A method of generating a consciousness affect is described. The method includes: (i) receiving, from a client device, a first and a second consciousness inputs, wherein the client device is associated with one or more users and the two consciousness inputs are different from each other; (ii) calculating a consciousness affect for one or more of the users; (iii) storing, in memory of the server and/or the client device, the consciousness affect; and (iv) wherein the first consciousness input includes at least one input chosen from a group comprising emotional state input, reasoned input, location information input, physical awareness input and spiritual insight input, and the second consciousness input is at least one input chosen from a group comprising reasoned input, location information input, physical awareness input and spiritual insight input.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: TWIIN, LLC
    Inventor: James Mercs
  • Patent number: 11901904
    Abstract: A digitally controlled oscillator (100), a synthesizer module (200), a synthesizer (300), and a method for producing an electrical audio signal are presented. The oscillator (100) comprises a digital processing unit (10) configured to generate a first pulse wave at a first output (PulseUp) of the processing unit (10), wherein the first pulse wave is arranged to include pulses at at least two different frequencies. The oscillator (100) further comprises a summing circuit (30) and a linear wave shaper (20). The output (PulseUp) of the processing unit (10) is connected to the summing circuit (30) which is arranged to produce a resultant signal based on at least the first pulse wave. The resultant signal is arranged to be fed into the linear wave shaper (20) which is arranged to produce an output signal at the output (OUT) of the oscillator (100) based on modifying the resultant signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SUPERCRITICAL OY
    Inventor: Timo Alho
  • Patent number: 11899738
    Abstract: System and method for recipe discovery and consumption logging. Improved solutions enable intelligent management of a user's personal fitness journey i.e., based on their overall health in their exercise and dietary habits. In one exemplary embodiment, recipes may be curated and tagged from a variety of sources such as health and fitness blogs and/or other articles of interest. Recipe tagging ensures that users can retrieve only the specific recipes of interest to them from a variety of sources which may be focused on the public at large. Additionally, the recipe discovery and consumption logging interface may enable users to log actual consumption activity for a selected recipe, including ad hoc user modifications to recipe ingredients.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: MyFitnessPal, Inc.
    Inventors: Palak Gohil, Angeline Baniqued, Shubhansha Agrawal, Yuting Pu
  • Patent number: 11900270
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for detecting and analyzing user reactions to messages received. One of the methods includes obtaining reaction data characterizing a reaction of a first user to a communication sent by a second user using a first communication service, wherein the first communication service allows users to react to received communications by selecting from a predetermined set of proprietary reactions that are supported by the first communication service; analyzing the reaction data to generate standardized reaction data that characterizes a sentiment of the reaction of the first user to the communication; mapping the standardized reaction data to one or more proprietary reactions from the predetermined set of proprietary reactions that are supported by the first communication service; and providing, to the first communication service, data identifying the one or more proprietary reactions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: RingCentral, Inc.
    Inventor: Christopher van Rensburg
  • Patent number: 11889818
    Abstract: In a method and system for managing a social group, the method includes determining a group member behavior from a member position relative to the social group, and inferring a member state from the member behavior. Spatial, spatio-temporal, and biometric data may be used. A social group management system includes an inference engine that infers a member state from the behavior of a monitored member. Another social group management method includes characterizing a first monitored member of the social group as a first discrete element; characterizing at least a second monitored member of the social group as at least a second discrete element; and determining a characteristic displacement between the first monitored member and at least the second monitored member in accordance with a discrete element method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: FORT SUPPLY TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Malcolm Randall Harvey, Ian Robert Harvey, Nephi Taylor Harvey
  • Patent number: 11890241
    Abstract: A system and a method for managing patient therapy protocols are disclosed. The system includes a patient support apparatus for supporting a patient, a first input device for use by a first caregiver, a location system for determining a location of the first caregiver, and a therapy management system. The therapy management system receives a location of the first caregiver and a selection of a patient therapy protocol, which includes a location requirement. The therapy management system then determines whether the first caregiver location input signal satisfies the location requirement before initiating the selected patient therapy protocol or notifying the second caregiver if the location of the first caregiver does not satisfy the location requirement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Stryker Corporation
    Inventors: Anuj Sidhu, Alexander Bodurka, Krishna Sandeep Bhimavarapu
  • Patent number: 11893356
    Abstract: Chatbots may be integrated into a customer service workflow and assist a user before, during and after a user-agent interaction. The chatbot may assist an agent during a user-agent interaction. The chatbot may provide customized responses for a target agent or user. Customized responses may be formulated based on conversation context, account information, sentiment and diagnostic tools. Chabot responses may be customized to meet habits and patterns of a target agent or user. The chatbot may crowdsource questions to other agents or users. The chatbot may employ search engines, entity and slot extraction and heat maps and clustering analysis to generate relevant responses for the agent or user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: Bank of America Corporation
    Inventors: Ramakrishna R. Yannam, Ion Gerald McCusker, Prejish Thomas, Ravisha Andar
  • Patent number: 11890084
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating bio-information may include a sensor configured to obtain a bio-signal from an object, and a processor configured to obtain a second-order differential signal of the bio-signal, and extract a progressive wave component from the bio-signal using, based on a first local minimum point of the second-order differential signal being stable, the first local minimum point of the second-order differential signal, or extract the progressive wave component from the bio-signal using, based on the first local minimum point of the second-order differential signal being unstable, a maximum amplitude point in a systolic portion of the bio-signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Soon Park, Ui Kun Kwon, Seung Keun Yoon, Dae Geun Jang
  • Patent number: 11883173
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a system and method for detecting or indicating a state of impairment of a test subject or user due to drugs or alcohol, and more particularly to a method, system and application or software program configured to creating a virtual-reality (“VR”) environment that implements drug and alcohol impairment tests, and which utilizes eye tracking technology to detect or indicate impairment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Scott M. Gibbons, Aaron J. Frank, Matthew Kromer, Bohdan Paselsky
  • Patent number: 11883191
    Abstract: Systems and methods to detect pneumonia in cardiovascular patients are disclosed, including receiving physiologic information of a patient from an ambulatory medical device (AMD), the physiologic information comprising respiration information of the patient, and determining a pneumonia score of the patient using the received respiration information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Rezwan Ahmed, Qi An, Viktoria A. Averina, Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur
  • Patent number: 11886849
    Abstract: One example method includes receiving a code request, parsing code associated with the code request, storing, in a staging database, a portion of the code, traversing a codebase to identify any code in the codebase that matches the portion of the code, and when code is found in the codebase that matches the portion of the code, incrementing a green count and pushing the portion of the code to a redundant code bin, and when no code is found in the codebase that matches the portion of the code, incrementing a red counter and updating the codebase to include the portion of the code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: DELL PRODUCTS L.P.
    Inventors: Veenu Gupta, Abhilash Mukesh
  • Patent number: 11883194
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus is disclosed, comprising a biomathetical model for optimizing cognitive performance in the face of sleep deprivation that integrates novel and nonobvious biomathematical models for quantifying performance impairment for both chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation; the dose-dependent effects of caffeine on human vigilance; and the pheonotypical response of a particular user to caffeine dosing, chronic sleep restriction and total sleep deprivation in user-friendly software application which itself may be part of a networked system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: The Government of the United States, as represented by the Secretary of the Army
    Inventors: Jaques Reifman, Jianbo Liu, Nancy Wesensten, Thomas Balkin, Sridhar Ramakrishnan, Maxim Y. Khitrov
  • Patent number: 11887170
    Abstract: Computer-implemented tools, techniques, and algorithms are provided for meeting financial targets in connection with medical procedures (e.g., surgical operations) performed by a healthcare entity. A method for restructuring classification of multiple medical procedures for a healthcare entity may be provided in which medical procedure data including charge related data are collected in association with multiple patient encounters for a medical procedure. A data model is created from the collected data and a predetermined number of procedure charge levels are generated each in association with an acuity resource value range. Each medical procedure is then reclassified into one of the procedure charge levels in accordance with at least one level assignment rule. This reclassification can then be processed to determine whether it results in a predetermined desired data distribution and/or meets financial targets for the medical procedure charge data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: MedCom Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Carlee Hallo, Rebecca Mumford, Ziwei Yi, Nike Cromes, William A. Hunt
  • Patent number: 11887014
    Abstract: In an example embodiment, a request is received, via a graphical user interface, to add a new object to a directory of objects, the new object having a first category in a hierarchical taxonomy of categories and objects. Then one or more questions previously assigned to the first category and/or one or more existing objects within the first category are retrieved. Each of the retrieved one or more questions and information about the new object are then fed into a first machine learned model trained to output a probability that a question is applicable to an object. One or more questions are generated for the new object based on the probability for each of the retrieved one or more questions. At least one of the one or more generated questions is then assigned to the new object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Jeremiah Reeves, Nithya Rajagopalan, Abhishek Chaturvedi, Sunil Gornalle, Prasad Karani, Surendranath Gopinathan, Gurudayal Khosla
  • Patent number: RE49853
    Abstract: A computer-assisted method to timely provide notifications of treatments, the method including receiving de-identified longitudinal medical records, receiving notification data, identifying anonymized patients that received the treatment, identifying notifications for the treatment that were received by the recipients, determining, for each of the identified notifications, whether the recipient is an anonymized patient identified as having received the treatment, determining, for each of the identified notifications for the treatment determined to be received by a recipient that is an anonymized patient identified as having received the treatment, a time relationship between the time when the treatment was received by the anonymized patient and the time that the notification was received by the recipient that is the anonymized patient, and determining, for each of the anonymized patients that received the treatment, associations between one or more time relationships for notifications received by the anonymiz
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: IQVIA Inc.
    Inventors: Yong Cai, Bob Doyle, George Mu, Dong Dai, Emily Zhao, Steven Rosztoczy