Detecting Nuclear, Electromagnetic, Or Ultrasonic Radiation Patents (Class 600/407)
  • Patent number: 12142422
    Abstract: A magnetic manipulation system and method for moving and navigating a magnetic device in a body are provided. The system includes a robotic parallel mechanism having at least three electromagnets and at least three electromagnetic coils coupled to the at least three electromagnets, respectively. The electromagnetic coils are actuated to keep the electromagnets in static conditions or move the electromagnets along a desired trajectory, a current control unit supplying currents to the electromagnetic coils which have soft iron cores. The currents supplied by the control unit are configured to generate dynamic magnetic field in the soft iron core's linear region. The current control unit and the robotic parallel mechanism are configured to generate desired dynamic magnetic fields in desired positions within a workspace to control a magnetic device, and a three-dimensional position sensor is configured for performing a close loop control of the robotic parallel mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Multi-Scale Medical Robotics Center Limited
    Inventors: Li Zhang, Lidong Yang, Moqiu Zhang
  • Patent number: 12142356
    Abstract: This invention describes how users can capture digital artifacts from any medical device using their mobile device. Some examples of medical devices included, but are not limited to a medical ID card, Medical ID bracelet, Electronic Medical Records, blood pressure machines, blood glucose, scales, inhalers, INR, prescription bottles and trays, pulse oximeter, etc. Digital artifacts included, but are not limited to a medical ID, basic patient information, patient contact information, emergency contact information, primary care physician information, health insurance information including co-pay and deductibles, prescriptions, office visit summary, appointment cards, Electronic Medical Records (EMR), lab results, blood type, organ/donor status, vital signs, diagnostic data, immunization records, payments and transaction history, pictures, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Inventor: Michelle Fisher
  • Patent number: 12138030
    Abstract: A micro impulse radar (MIR) system includes art MIR transceiver circuit configured to transmit, towards a subject, at least one transmitted radar signal, and receive at least one radar return signal. The system includes a control circuit configured to generate a control signal defining a radar signal parameter of the at least one transmitted radar signal, provide the control signal to the MIR transceiver circuit to cause the MIR transceiver circuit to transmit the at least one transmitted signal based on the radar signal parameter, and determine, based on the at least one radar return signal, a physiological parameter of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2023
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Deep Science, LLC
    Inventors: Roderick A. Hyde, David William Wine, Brian C. Holloway
  • Patent number: 12133693
    Abstract: A method for automatic detection of a medical instrument orientation for robotic surgery is presented. The method determines the orientation of a marker device attached to the medical instrument in relation to the robotic system by comparing movement information. The method compares the information about a movement of the marker device from a tracking system with the information about a movement of the robotic arm, which movement data can be acquired by the robotic system. The orientation of the medical instrument with respect to the robotic system can be determined automatically and used for subsequent calculations such as an automatic and efficient precise alignment to a target trajectory or a correct positioning assistance for a mechatronic arm. A computer-implemented medical method of automatically determining an orientation of a medical instrument base in relation to a robotic system is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Brainlab AG
    Inventors: Nils Frielinghaus, Mohamed Ahmed Fouad Barakat
  • Patent number: 12133690
    Abstract: A system or method according to at least one embodiment of the present disclosure includes receiving a preoperative image of a patient in a first posture; receiving an intraoperative image of the patient in a second posture; comparing the preoperative image of the patient in the first posture with the intraoperative image of the patient in the second posture; and determining, based on comparing the preoperative image of the patient in the first posture with the intraoperative image of the patient in the second posture, a difference between the first posture and the second posture, the adequate surgical changes are imparted to the second posture to achieve satisfactory surgical outcome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Medtronic Navigation, Inc.
    Inventor: Saba Pasha
  • Patent number: 12133891
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are a microbubble-extracellular vesicle complex, a production method therefor, and a system for driving the same. In one aspect, preferred microbubble-extracellular vesicle complexes may comprise an ultrasound contrast agent-based microbubble, an extracellular cell derived from a natural killer cell (NK cell), a human glial cell, or a human mesenchymal stem cell, and a coupling medium and can be derive in a 3D mode using ultrasonic waves and deliver a drug loaded in the extracellular vesicle to a target site.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignees: INDUSTRY FOUNDATION OF CHONNAM NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, KOREA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL MICROROBOTICS, Johns Hopkins University
    Inventors: Eun Pyo Choi, Jong Oh Park, Chang Sei Kim, You Hee Choi, Byung Jeon Kang, Ho Yong Kim, Hyeong Woo Song, Dae Won Jung, Han Sol Lee, Deok Ho Kim, Min Jae Do
  • Patent number: 12133809
    Abstract: The present invention relates to positioning of stents or other medical interventional devices. In order to provide an improved marker detection suitable for smaller markers, a device (10) for positioning a medical interventional device is provided. The device comprises a data input interface (12), a data processing unit (14) and a data output interface (16). The data input interface is configured to provide at least one image of a region of interest of a subject. In the at least one image, at least a part of a guiding apparatus for a medical interventional device is arranged in the region of interest, which part of the guiding apparatus comprises at least one apparatus position marker visible in the at least one image. Further, in the at least one image, a medical interventional device is arranged at least partly in the region of interest, which medical interventional device comprises device position markers, which are less visible in the image than the at least one apparatus position marker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Vincent Maurice Andre Auvray, Raoul Florent
  • Patent number: 12136220
    Abstract: The present invention provides a system and a computer-implemented method for generating at least one 4-dimensional medical image segmentation for at least one structure of a human heart. The method includes the steps of: providing a first 4-dimensional medical image comprising the at least one structure of the human heart, the medical image being based on a computed tomography scan image; generating a segmentation of at least part of the provided first 4-dimensional medical image using at least one first trained artificial neural network, wherein the at least one first trained artificial neural network is configured as a convolutional processing network with U-net architecture; and generating at least one 4-dimensional medical image segmentation for the at least one structure of the human heart based at least on the segmentation generated by the at least one first trained artificial neural network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2024
    Assignee: Laralab GmbH
    Inventors: Aleksei Vasilev, Julian Praceus
  • Patent number: 12127850
    Abstract: A motor organ disease prediction device includes at least one processor, in which the processor derives a bone mineral density of a target bone among bones included in a subject including a bone part and a soft part, a muscle mass around the target bone, shape information representing a shape of the target bone, and shape information representing a shape of a bone adjacent to the target bone from a first radiation image and a second radiation image acquired by imaging the subject by radiation having different energy distributions. The processor derives a probability of occurrence of a motor organ disease relating to the target bone from the bone mineral density of the target bone, the muscle mass around the target bone, the shape information of the target bone, and the shape information of the bone adjacent to the target bone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: FUJIFILM CORPORATION
    Inventor: Takahiro Kawamura
  • Patent number: 12123756
    Abstract: An insert-type electromagnetic flow sensor is disclosed. The flow sensor comprises an insert, first and second electrodes supported on opposite sides of the insert and a drive coil housed in the insert. The drive coil is offset from a midpoint between the first and second electrodes and/or a width of the drive coil between the first and second opposite sides at least partially overlaps with respective inner portions of the first and second electrodes. The drive coil includes at least five turns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: XYLEM EUROPE GMBH
    Inventors: Andrew Dames, Vincenzo Piazza, Mathew Price, Hilary Meanwell, Michael Cantor, Riccardo Di Pietro
  • Patent number: 12125217
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes obtaining, via a processor, segmented image patches of a vessel along a coronary tree path and associated coronary flow distribution for respective vessel segments in the segmented image patches. The method also includes determining, via the processor, a pressure drop distribution along an axial length of the vessel from the segmented image patches and the associated coronary flow distribution. The method further includes determining, via the processor, critical points in the pressure drop distribution. The method even further includes detecting, via the processor, a presence of a stenosis based on the critical points in the pressure drop distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Prem Venugopal, Cynthia Elizabeth Landberg Davis, Jed Douglas Pack, Jhimli Mitra, Soumya Ghose
  • Patent number: 12125577
    Abstract: An example system for demonstrating at least one aspect of an orthopedic surgical procedure includes a first device and a second device. In this example, the first device is configured to display a presentation to a first user, wherein the presentation includes one or more virtual elements and wherein the one or more virtual elements comprise a three-dimensional (3D) virtual representation of one or more anatomical features associated with the orthopedic surgical procedure. In this example, the second device is configured to display the presentation to a second user. In this example, the one or more virtual elements demonstrate at least one aspect of the orthopedic surgical procedure and wherein control of at least some of the one or more virtual elements are assignable from the first device to the second device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2024
    Assignee: HOWMEDICA OSTEONICS CORP.
    Inventors: W. Matthew Kuester, Sergii Poltaretskyi, Jean Chaoui, Damien Cariou
  • Patent number: 12118719
    Abstract: A method for training a machine learning algorithm that classifies predictive regions-of interest (“ROI”) of progression of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The method includes acquiring a set of computed tomography (CT) images of a plurality of patients and selecting a plurality of ROIs within the set of images. Each of the ROIs designates a label that indicates progression of pulmonary fibrosis and training a machine learning algorithm by inputting the plurality of ROIs and the associated labels into the algorithm. The algorithm identifies the ROIs in the set of images as indicating regions of pulmonary fibrosis within the set of images based on the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: The Regents of the University of California
    Inventors: Hyun Kim, Yu Shi, Jonathan Gerald Goldin, Weng Kee Wong
  • Patent number: 12114962
    Abstract: An aspect relates to a placement device for placement in a medium, including: an elongated optical transmission guide to which a photoacoustic transducer is attached to, wherein the photoacoustic transducer may include a first surface facing away from the second end of the elongated optical transmission guide. The photoacoustic transducer may include a 3-Dimensional shape configured to produce an acoustic signal upon absorption of electromagnetic energy received from the elongated optical transmission guide, and an emission profile of the acoustic signal is based on the 3-Dimensional shape, when the photoacoustic transducer is immersed in homogeneous medium. The placement device may be integral to a medical or veterinary device. An aspect relates to a placement tracking system including the placement device and an ultrasound detector. An aspect relates to a method for tracking a portion of a placement device in a medium using the system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Agency for Science, Technology and Research
    Inventors: Malini Olivo, Renzhe Bi, Jun Hui Ho, Yao Du
  • Patent number: 12119101
    Abstract: An example method may include acquiring images from cameras, each having a known position and orientation with respect to a spatial coordinate system of an augmented reality (AR) device. The acquired images may include portions of a multi-modal marker device that includes at least one tracking sensor having a three-dimensional position that is detectable in a coordinate system of a tracking system. A three-dimensional position is estimated for the portions of the multi-modal marker device with respect to the spatial coordinate system of the AR device based on each of the respective acquired images and the known position and orientation of the cameras with respect to the spatial coordinate system of the AR device. The method also includes computing an affine transform configured to register the coordinate system of the tracking system with a visual space of a display that is in the spatial coordinate system of the AR device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: CENTERLINE BIOMEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Matthew Holladay, Vikash Goel
  • Patent number: 12115005
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method and system for predicting a likelihood that a patient is subject to one or more conditions. Retinal signal data corresponding to the patient may be received. Retinal signal features may be extracted from the retinal signal data. Descriptors may be extracted from the retinal signal features. The descriptors may be applied to a first mathematical model and a second mathematical model. The first mathematical model may correspond to a first condition. The second mathematical model may correspond to ta second condition. A first predicted probability for the first condition may be generated. A second predicted probability for the second condition may be generated. The first predicted probability and the second predicted probability may be output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: DIAMENTIS INC.
    Inventor: Claude Hariton
  • Patent number: 12119104
    Abstract: Various examples of embodiments of the invention generally relate to automating a clinical workflow, the clinical workflow including an analysis of one or more medical datasets and generation of a medical report based on the analysis. For example, machine-learning algorithms may be used for the analysis. The medical report may be generated based on one or more report templates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS HEALTHINEERS AG
    Inventors: Michael Kelm, Srikrishna Prasad
  • Patent number: 12109059
    Abstract: A dynamic analysis system processes a dynamic image obtained by irradiation of a subject from a radiation irradiation apparatus and by dynamic imaging on dynamics of the subject detected by a detector. The dynamic analysis system includes a hardware processor that performs position correction of the dynamic image by eliminating an effect of displacement of the subject in a direction perpendicular to a detector plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Konica Minolta, Inc.
    Inventors: Sumiya Nagatsuka, Yuki Kawana
  • Patent number: 12111289
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for imaging of soft and hard tissues with ultrasound. Such systems and methods can provide for non-contact and quantitative ultrasound images of bone and soft tissue. A method for imaging a biological body segment of soft and hard tissues includes setting geometry and material properties according to a model of the biological body segment to thereby generate a simulated time series data set. The method further includes collecting reflective and transmissive time series data of the biological body segment to thereby form an experimental time series data set and minimizing a difference between the simulated time series data set and the experimental time series data set, thereby imaging the biological body segment. Regularizing travel-time and/or using full waveform tomographic techniques with level set methods enable recovery of cortical bone geometry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    Inventors: Jonathan Randall Fincke, Brian W. Anthony
  • Patent number: 12108993
    Abstract: Various methods and systems are provided for medical imaging. In one embodiment, a method for an interventional imaging procedure comprises identifying a medical device during insertion of the medical device within a subject based on live images of the insertion, extrapolating a trajectory of the medical device during the insertion in real-time based on the live images of the insertion, and displaying the extrapolated trajectory of the medical device on the live images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: GE PRECISION HEALTHCARE LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Benseghir, Selim Zenagui, Maxime Taron, Yves Trousset, Raphael Doustaly
  • Patent number: 12102463
    Abstract: A method for characterising an epicardial region using medical imaging data of a subject. The method comprises calculating the value of an epicardial radiomic signature of the epicardial region using the medical imaging data. Also disclosed is a method for deriving an epicardial radiomic signature indicative of cardiac health. The method comprises using a radiomic dataset to construct an epicardial radiomic signature. Also disclosed are systems for performing the aforementioned methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: OXFORD UNIVERSITY INNOVATION LIMITED
    Inventors: Charalambos Antoniades, Alexios Antonopoulos, Henry West
  • Patent number: 12102350
    Abstract: Exemplary scope systems and methods involve a cannula assembly, a sheath assembly, and a tubing set. A cannula assembly, which may be a non-magnetic scope cap assembly, can include a cannula body, a proximal housing having a strap, an optical window, and a luer for suction or flushing. A cannula body may include a first lumen or scope channel for receiving a visualization device such as an endoscope or laparoscope, a distal end having suction or flushing flush apertures, and a second lumen for providing fluid communication between the apertures and the luer. Exemplary magnetic introducer systems and methods involve a cannula assembly, a sheath assembly, a tubing set. In some cases, the cannula assembly of a magnetic introducer system can be a magnetic scope cap assembly. In addition to cannula and sheath assemblies, magnetic introducer systems can include a magnetic introducer tubing assembly and a stylet assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: AtriCure, Inc.
    Inventors: Tamer Ibrahim, Michael J. Banchieri, Tony Wong, Dwight P. Morejohn
  • Patent number: 12102480
    Abstract: Exemplary embodiments provide systems and methods for portable medical ultrasound imaging. Preferred embodiments utilize a tablet touchscreen display operative to control imaging and display operations without the need for using traditional keyboards or controls. Certain embodiments provide ultrasound imaging system in which the scan head includes a beamformer circuit that performs far field sub array beamforming or includes a sparse array selecting circuit that actuates selected elements. Exemplary embodiments also provide an ultrasound engine circuit board including one or more multi-chip modules, and a portable medical ultrasound imaging system including an ultrasound engine circuit board with one or more multi-chip modules. Exemplary embodiments also provide methods for using a hierarchical two-stage or three-stage beamforming system, three dimensional ultrasound images which can be generated in real-time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Teratech Corporation
    Inventors: Alice Chiang, William M. Wong, Noah Berger
  • Patent number: 12102485
    Abstract: Introduced here approaches to developing, training, and implementing algorithms to cardiac dysfunction through automated analysis of physiological data. As an example, a model may be developed and then trained to quantify left and right ventricular dysfunction using electrocardiogram waveform data that is associated with a population of individuals who are diverse in terms of age, gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and the like. This approach to training allows the model to predict the presence of left and right ventricular dysfunction in a diverse population. Also introduced here is a regression framework for predicting numeric values of left ventricular ejection fraction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: ICAHN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT MOUNT SINAI
    Inventors: Akhil Vaid, Girish N. Nadkarni, Benjamin S. Glicksberg
  • Patent number: 12105501
    Abstract: The methods, process, and apparatus of the present invention produces a structurally representative organ model using magnetic resonance imaging scan information of a organ and a patient's medical history and physiology. This is accomplished by mathematically convolving the scan information with a second order ranked tensor matrix encoded with the patient's physiological information as it relates to the scanned organ and their medical profile. The convolved scan information and encoded matrix are computer processed to produce a 3D printer driver file which is used to print a structurally representative organ model conforming to the patient's physiology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Inventor: Alexander Paul Eul
  • Patent number: 12102843
    Abstract: A method and system for performing online adapted radiotherapy are provided using combined ultrasound and ionizing radiation induced acoustic imaging (iRAI) computed tomography imaging techniques that can be used for measurement of low to ultrahigh dose deliveries (>40 Gy/s). Multiplexed transducers detect US and iRAI signals allowing for anatomical/functional imaging and radiation mapping with absolute dosimetry measurements of a region of interest during a radiotherapy session. Corrections to radiation dosage intensities and locations is determined and provided as feedback to a radiation source to improve the accuracy of applied radiation dosages intra- or inter-radiotherapy treatment sessions preventing the irradiation of healthy tissues and ensuring the accurate delivery of radiation to a tumor or region of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN
    Inventors: Issam El Naqa, Xueding Wang, Paul Carson, Kyle Cuneo, Jean Moran, Wei Zhang, Ibrahim Oraiqat
  • Patent number: 12096994
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method, such as a surgical method for assisting a surgeon for placing screws in the spine using a robot attached to a passive structure. The present invention also related to a method, such as a surgical method for assisting a surgeon for removing volumes in the body of a patient using a robot attached to a passive structure and to a device to carry out said methods. The present invention further concerns a device suitable to carry out the methods according to the present invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: KB MEDICAL SA
    Inventors: Szymon Kostrzewski, Philippe Berard, Charles Baur, John Michael Duff, Kishore Sandu
  • Patent number: 12097078
    Abstract: An ultrasonic image display system and a program for controlling an ultrasonic image display system are disclosed herein. The ultrasonic image display system includes at least one processor and memory. In the memory is stored at least one protocol including a plurality of image acquisition steps. The processor is adapted to load the protocol to start a first run of the protocol, interrupt the first run of the protocol, acquire data for a second ultrasonic image of the patient and store the data in the memory after interrupting the first run of the protocol at one of the acquisition steps. The processor is adapted to interrupt the second run of the protocol at the same one of the acquisition steps or give notice that the second run of the protocol will be interrupted at the same one of the acquisition steps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventor: Hanako Kato
  • Patent number: 12097048
    Abstract: A radiotherapy system is provided. The radiotherapy system may include a treatment component, an imaging component, and a table being movable between the treatment component and the imaging component along a first direction in a first coordinate system. The table may have a plurality of cross sections perpendicular to the first direction. The table may include a positioning line that extends along the first direction and have a positioning feature. The positioning feature may have a plurality of feature values. Each feature value may correspond to one of the plurality of cross sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Hongcheng Yang, Supratik Bose
  • Patent number: 12101594
    Abstract: A method of designing and forming at least one element of an acoustic transducer. The method includes receiving one or more required operating parameters of the at least one element of the acoustic transducer for an application, iteratively modeling and simulating performance of one or more materials to utilize within the at least one element of the acoustic transducer, iteratively modeling and simulating performance of one or more structures to utilize within the at least one element of the acoustic transducer, identifying at least one material and at least one structure that exhibit predicted performance that at least achieves the one or more required operating parameters of the at least one element of the acoustic transducer for the application, outputting a design of the at least one element of the acoustic transducer, and forming the at least one element of the acoustic transducer via one or more additive manufacturing processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2024
    Assignee: Baker Hughes Oilfield Operations LLC
    Inventors: Aaron Avagliano, Navin Sakthivel, Chad Yates, Brian Steven Wieneke, Roger Steinsiek, Baskaran Ganesan, Peter Leonard Wise, Benjamin Hoemske, Sarah Elizabeth Austerman
  • Patent number: 12089988
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated physiological parameter estimation from ultrasound image sequences are provided. An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound imaging device configured to acquire a sequence of ultrasound images of a patient. An anatomical structure recognition module includes processing circuitry configured to receive the acquired sequence of ultrasound images from the ultrasound imaging device, and automatically recognize an anatomical structure in the received sequence of ultrasound images. A physiological parameters estimation module includes processing circuitry configured to automatically estimate one or more physiological parameters associated with the recognized anatomical structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: EchoNous, Inc.
    Inventors: Allen Lu, Babajide Ayinde
  • Patent number: 12090273
    Abstract: A system, method and apparatus to automatically perform endotracheal intubation in a patient comprising, inserting a blade inside the upper airway of the patient to retract an anatomical structure; inserting a bending portion and a tube arranged on the bending portion inside the airway of the patient; collecting airway data using at least one imaging sensor arranged on the bending portion; communicating collected airway data to a processing circuitry; predicting an intended path for insertion of the tube and generating control signals using the processing circuitry, wherein the intended path is predicted based on at least one anatomical structure recognized by the processing circuitry using the collected airway data; displaying an intended path via a user interface to display at least one intended path to an operator and also allow the operator to select an intended path; and communicating the control signals generated by the processing circuitry to at least one actuation unit to actuate the three-dimensional
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Inventors: Sanket Singh Chauhan, Aditya Narayan Das
  • Patent number: 12094050
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for molecular imaging. The systems and methods may obtain, using at least one 3D camera, image data of at least one movable detector of an ECT device. The systems and methods may determine, based on the image data of the at least one movable detector, an arrangement of the at least one insert detector in a coordinate system that relates to the ECT device. The systems and methods may also obtain image data of an object by performing, using the at least one movable detector, an ECT imaging on the object. The systems and methods may generate, based on the arrangement of the at least one movable detector and the image data of the object, an image of the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Lingzhi Hu, Hongdi Li
  • Patent number: 12082941
    Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to methods and apparatus for monitoring bone characteristics for various conditions such as osteoporosis and/or periodontitis. In various embodiments, a dental hygiene appliance (100) may include: a handle (102) adapted to be held by a user; a tool (106) secured to the handle to perform a dental hygiene-related task; emitter(s) (114A, 116, 360A) mounted on the dental hygiene appliance to emit wave(s) (252, 362) towards a mandible (250, 350) of the user; sensor(s) (114B, 116, 360B) mounted on the dental hygiene appliance to detect wave(s) (254, 364) propagating away from the mandible, wherein the detected wave(s) originate from or are caused by the emitted wave(s); and a controller (108) communicatively coupled with the emitter(s) and the sensor(s). The controller may: receive, from the sensor(s), signal(s) indicative of the detected waves; and determine, based on the signal(s), bone characteristic(s) of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventor: Joep Van Berkel
  • Patent number: 12082949
    Abstract: A selection support system includes one or more hardware processors. A hardware processor among the one or more hardware processors obtains biological information of a subject. The hardware processor layers and accumulates, in an accumulator, input operation information about an input operation performed on the obtained biological information by a user. In response to obtaining new biological information, according to the input operation information accumulated in the accumulator, the hardware processor generates recommendation information that includes identification information identifying an application for analyzing the new biological information and additional information indicating a characteristic of the application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
    Inventor: Hitoshi Futamura
  • Patent number: 12082888
    Abstract: A control console for control of a medical surgical device comprising at least one surgical mechanical arm, which control console comprising: a control console base; at least one user support coupled to said control console base; a processor configured to receive data regarding a selected surgical configuration of said at least one surgical mechanical arm and at least one camera; an input arm support coupled to said control console base; at least one input arm comprising a plurality of sections sequentially coupled by joints, coupled to and extending from said input arm support where a direction of extension of said input arm, with respect to said at least one user support is adjustable to match an input arm configuration to said selected surgical configuration, a camera view of said at least one surgical mechanical arm thereby corresponding to a user view of said input arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Momentis Surgical Ltd.
    Inventors: Dvir Cohen, Yaron Levinson
  • Patent number: 12087000
    Abstract: This disclosure provides alternative medical imaging systems and methods for vascular imaging co-registration. Methods include obtaining extravascular imaging data of a portion of a blood vessel including an extravascular image showing an intravascular imaging device disposed within the vessel with an imaging element disposed at a starting location for a translation procedure. The extravascular image also includes an extravascular contrast image showing the portion of the blood vessel with contrast showing a visualized anatomical landmark. Intravascular imaging data is obtained during the translation procedure that includes one or more intravascular images showing a detected anatomical landmark. The starting location and the ending location of the imaging element on the extravascular imaging data is marked, and the predicted location of the detected anatomical landmark on the extravascular imaging data is marked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Boston Scientific Scimed, Inc.
    Inventors: Wenguang Li, Kevin Bloms, Matthew R. Huston
  • Patent number: 12082975
    Abstract: An ultrasound system for imaging a target is provided. The system includes a plurality of transducer elements; at least one transmitter configured to excite at least one of the transducer elements to emit ultrasound energy to the target; a plurality of samplers configured to sample echo signals received by at least some of the plurality of transducer elements, the echo signals comprising acoustic echoes received from the target responsive to the ultrasound energy; a coherence calculator configured to calculate a plurality of coherence values, each of the coherence values corresponding to a measure of similarity between at least two sample echo signals; an estimator configured to estimate a coherence contribution estimate, the coherence contribution estimate comprising an estimate of a contribution of at least one coherence model to the plurality of coherence values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: DUKE UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: William Walker, Matthew Morgan, Gregg Trahey
  • Patent number: 12080059
    Abstract: An information processing device includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire a capturing time of a lesion image instructed to be saved by a user, from a series of images captured by an endoscope during examination with the endoscope; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a capturing time of a lesion image detected by detection processing for the series of images captured by the endoscope during the examination; and a display control unit configured to cause a display device to display a first capturing time and a second capturing time which are plotted on a time axis, the first capturing time being the capturing time acquired by the first acquisition unit, the second capturing time being the capturing time acquired by the second acquisition unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: NEC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ikuma Takahashi, Tatsu Kimura, Kimiyasu Takoh, Kenichi Kamijo, Hiroyasu Saiga, Shota Ohtsuka, Motoyasu Okutsu
  • Patent number: 12076139
    Abstract: A system and/or device for transabdominal fetal oximetry and/or fetal pulse oximetry and/or uterine tone determination may include one or more articulating, adjustable, and/or selectable components such as a light source and/or a photodetector. In some embodiments, the positioning of a light source and/or detector may be adjustable. The articulation and/or adjustment of position of the light source and/or photodetector may be in any plane (X, Y, and/or Z) and, in some instances, may be responsive to a fetal position within a maternal abdomen. Light detected by the detectors may be used to determine a fetal hemoglobin oxygen saturation level and/or a muscular state (e.g., contracted or relaxed) of the pregnant mammal's uterus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Raydiant Oximetry, Inc.
    Inventors: Neil Padharia Ray, Mark Andrew Rosen, Adam Jacobs, Nevan Hanumara
  • Patent number: 12076103
    Abstract: A medical instrument system includes a control system and an operator input device coupled to an instrument including a sensor. The control system includes a processor and memory comprising instructions that cause the control system to: determine a distance between a distal tip of the instrument and an anatomical area based on sensor data; determine a motion scaling parameter based on the distance; receive an input instruction from the operator input device; map the input instruction to an output instruction including applying the motion scaling parameter to the input instruction to create the output instruction; instruct an actuator to move the instrument based on the output instruction; determine a second distance between the distal tip and the anatomical area based on the sensor data; determine a second motion scaling parameter based on the second distance; and stop movement of the instrument based on the second motion scaling parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: INTUITIVE SURGICAL OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Christopher R. Carlson, Federico Barbagli
  • Patent number: 12076183
    Abstract: An image processing device includes a drive unit connected with an ultrasound element or an image sensor element, and an image processing unit that sequentially generates two-dimensional images of an organ, a blood vessel, or a medical instrument, based on information which is acquired by the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, and that generates a three-dimensional image based on the two-dimensional image. The image processing unit includes a storage unit that stores position correspondence information and/or image correspondence information, and a control unit that determines a position inside the three-dimensional image corresponding to a current position of the ultrasound element or the image sensor element, based on the position correspondence information or the image correspondence information, and that generates display information in real time, in which the determined position inside the three-dimensional image is identified and displayed inside the three-dimensional image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignees: TERUMO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, ROKKEN INC.
    Inventors: Katsuhiko Shimizu, Yasukazu Sakamoto, Ryosuke Saga
  • Patent number: 12076094
    Abstract: Techniques for robotically guiding a cup-shaped implant or instrument are provided. In an example, the technique can include a combination of the following operations. Acquiring a calibration image including a cup-shaped element in a first orientation. Identifying a first elliptical outline of the cup-shaped element. Acquiring a navigation image including the cup-shaped element in a second orientation. Identifying a second elliptical outline of the cup-shaped element. Aligning a coordinate system of a robotic system to a patient, and positioning an implant or instrument based on a pre-operative plan within the coordinate system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: Orthosoft ULC
    Inventors: Quentin Derouault, Julie Deslongchamps, Jerome Harrison, Richard Moussa, Chloe Landry
  • Patent number: 12075545
    Abstract: Apparatus and methods for crosstalk mitigation in a lighting system. The apparatus may include a circuit. The circuit may be configured to receive electrical power. The circuit may be configured to provide lighting power from the electrical power, along an electrical power transmission line, to a light-emitting diode (“LED”) light fixture. The circuit may be configured to transmit along the electrical power transmission line first lighting control information that is configured to control light emitted from the fixture. The circuit may be configured to transmit along the electrical power transmission line second lighting control information that is defined by a pattern in the lighting power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Wangs Alliance Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Sabolcik, Suman Minnaganti, Paul McGinnis
  • Patent number: 12073564
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for automatic segmentation of a fuzzy boundary image based on active contour and deep learning. In the method, firstly, a fuzzy boundary image is segmented using a deep convolutional neural network model to obtain an initial segmentation result; then, a contour of a region inside the image segmented using the deep convolutional neural network model is used as an initialized contour and a contour constraint of an active contour model; and the active contour model drives, through image characteristics of a surrounding region of each contour point, the contour to move towards a target edge to derive an accurate segmentation line between a target region and other background regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Junying Chen, Haijun You
  • Patent number: 12070304
    Abstract: A method and system detects a hypoxic condition during an obstruction of an airway of a subject to detect and treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in the subject. The method and system includes an organ stimulating transducer configured for placement in a vicinity of an organ of the subject to stimulate the organ and remove the obstruction when OSA is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignees: University Of Maryland, Baltimore, Sonosa Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Amal Isaiah, Jeffrey S. Wolf, Stephen Restaino
  • Patent number: 12070310
    Abstract: A device for the continuous and real-time monitoring of bilirubin, comprises a housing that encloses a waterproof/splash proof body. The body comprises a bilirubin and temperature measuring module; a wearable biocompatible strap; a buckle; a display unit; a safety module; a learning module; a battery and charging unit; a switch; and a wireless connectivity facilitator. The bilirubin and temperature measuring module comprises: one or more light emitting sources; a microprocessor; one or more photodetectors; a filter; and an analogue to digital converter. The device can be configured to be mounted on a patient's wrist or any other body part like palm, earlobe, cheek, finger, forehead, and feet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Inventor: Nibedit Dey
  • Patent number: 12070357
    Abstract: An imaging system and a method for displaying information regarding the subject matter of an ultrasound image or ultrasound video loop on a display includes the steps of detecting one or more organs in the ultrasound image or ultrasound video loop, creating a representative thumbnail image utilizing the ultrasound image or a frame of the ultrasound video loop, selecting an organ icon representing the one or more organs detected in the ultrasound image or ultrasound video loop, and presenting the organ icon in association with the thumbnail image on the display. The system and method can also create search-identifiable information relating to the one or more organs detected in the ultrasound image or ultrasound video loop, and store the search-identifiable information in the electronic memory in association with the image or the image video loop and the thumbnail image with the organ icon.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Arun Kumar Siddanahalli Ninge Gowda, Srinivas Koteshwar Varna
  • Patent number: 12070352
    Abstract: An ultrasound system includes a single transducer. The single transducer includes a flexible substrate. The single transducer also includes an array of transducer elements disposed on the flexible substrate and configured to be disposed on an abdomen of a subject having one or more fetuses disposed within a single uterus and to acquire scan data. The ultrasound system also includes a processor coupled to the single transducer and configured to receive the scan data and to determine a respective fetal heart rate of each fetus of the one or more fetuses based on the scan data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: GE Precision Healthcare LLC
    Inventors: Sivaramanivas Ramaswamy, Vijith Venugopalan, Kiran Kumar Bogineni, Nagapriya Kavoori Sethumadhavan, Steven Mitchell Falk, Dianne Kessler, Tamara Grassle
  • Patent number: 12072403
    Abstract: Exemplary methods for quantitative mapping of physical properties, systems and computer-accessible medium can be provided to generate images of tissue magnetic susceptibility, transport parameters and oxygen consumption from magnetic resonance imaging data using the Bayesian inference approach, which minimizes a data fidelity term under a constraint of a structure prior knowledge. The data fidelity term is constructed directly from the magnetic resonance imaging data. The structure prior knowledge can be characterized from known anatomic images using image feature extraction operation or artificial neural network. Thus, according to the exemplary embodiment, system, method and computer-accessible medium can be provided for determining physical properties associated with at least one structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Cornell University
    Inventors: Yi Wang, Zhe Liu, Jinwei Zhang, Qihao Zhang, Junghun Cho, Pascal Spincemaille