Simultaneously Detecting Cardiovascular Condition And Diverse Body Condition Patents (Class 600/483)
  • Patent number: 12383194
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to physiological monitoring to determine the depth of consciousness of a patient under sedation. The monitor includes an EEG sensor and a depth of consciousness monitor. The depth of consciousness monitor can utilize treatment data, such as patient data and/or drug profile information with an EEG signal to determine whether the patient is adequately sedated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2025
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Ammar Al-Ali, Walter M. Weber, Faisal Kashif, Mohammad Usman, Balaji Chandrasekaran
  • Patent number: 12357878
    Abstract: Automated systems and methods are presented for determining the physiological response of human or suitable animal subjects to physical exertion. The methods and systems can include monitoring sensors that capture the motion of the subject along with corresponding physiological data, and can track such motion for the duration of a period of physical exertion. The system is able to acquire an initial stream of physiological data from the subject during a range of physical exertion activities that are representative of the events intended to be monitored with the proposed method and system, enabling a corresponding dynamic physiological response model to be created. The motion tracking system and physiological response model can then be used to predict the physiological response to physical exertion events under a prescribed framework, including applications during real-time event monitoring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Salutron, Inc.
    Inventor: Lino Velo
  • Patent number: 12357186
    Abstract: An illustrative system includes a stimulation device configured to apply stimulation to a recipient, a sensing device configured to detect a physiological condition of the recipient, and a processing unit communicatively coupled to the stimulation device and the sensing device. The processing unit determines a stimulation strategy that is customized to the recipient and includes stimulation frames and stimulation gaps. The processing unit then directs the stimulation device to apply the stimulation to the recipient in accordance with the stimulation strategy by applying the stimulation only during time that corresponds to the stimulation frames. The processing unit also directs the sensing device to detect the physiological condition of the recipient in accordance with the stimulation strategy by detecting only during time that corresponds to the stimulation gaps. Based on the detected physiological condition, the processing unit performs an action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Advanced Bionics AG
    Inventors: Leonid M. Litvak, R. Tissa Karunasiri, Hannah A. Glick, Kanthaiah Koka, Chen Chen, Anthony J. Spahr, Jason Galster, Dean Swan
  • Patent number: 12310916
    Abstract: A multimodal optical imaging platform is used to obtain cerebral perfusion-metabolism mismatch metrics for rapid assessment of acute brain injury, ongoing (real-time) feedback to optimize cardiopulmonary resuscitation to improve neurological outcome, and rapid prognosis of recovery. Light of several wavelengths and types is delivered to the tissue, which is then absorbed and scattered by tissue components such as blood and cellular components. Some of this light scatters back to the surface, where it is captured by a detector. The resulting data are processed to obtain blood flow and oxygenation parameters, as well as tissue scattering. These parameters are then combined to calculate metabolism and flow-metabolism coupling/decoupling metrics, which are used to determine ischemic damage, ongoing need for optimal blood flow and oxygenation, and to predict cerebral recovery in patients with acute brain injury during and immediately after cardiac arrest, stroke, traumatic brain injury, etc.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2025
    Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
    Inventors: Robert H. Wilson, Christian Crouzet, Yama Akbari, Bernard Choi, Bruce J. Tromberg
  • Patent number: 12293024
    Abstract: A wearable device includes sensing blocks, and a connection member connecting the sensing blocks, the sensing blocks include a first sensing block and a second sensing block connected to the first sensing block by the connection member, and the first sensing block includes an induced electromotive force sensing module, the induced electromotive force sensing module includes a magnetic body, a coil not contacting the magnetic body and facing the magnetic body, a rod attached to the magnetic body and guiding a movement path of the coil, and an induced electromotive force sensor sensing an induced electromotive force generated in the coil by the coil and the magnetic body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: SAMSUNG DISPLAY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Cheon Myeong Lee, Sang Ho Kim, Soo Min Baek, Ju Youn Son, Ji Won Lee, Bek Hyun Lim, Ju Hwa Ha
  • Patent number: 12268479
    Abstract: A method for monitoring autoregulation includes, using a processor, using a processor to execute one or more routines on a memory. The one or more routines include receiving one or more physiological signals from a patient, determining a correlation-based measure indicative of the patient's autoregulation based on the one or more physiological signals, and generating an autoregulation profile of the patient based on autoregulation index values of the correlation-based measure. The autoregulation profile includes the autoregulation index values sorted into bins corresponding to different blood pressure ranges. The one or more routines also include designating a blood pressure range encompassing one or more of the bins as a blood pressure safe zone indicative of intact regulation and providing a signal to a display to display the autoregulation profile and a first indicator of the blood pressure safe zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Paul Stanley Addison, James N. Watson, Dean Montgomery
  • Patent number: 12263008
    Abstract: A system is configured to diagnose sleep comprising an apparatus configured to be attached to a patient; the apparatus comprises: i) an optical sensor configured to measure a blood volume pulse of the patient; and ii) a wireless communication interface configured to wirelessly transmit the measured blood volume pulse. The system further comprises means for performing: i) obtaining the wirelessly transmitted measured blood volume pulse; and ii) deriving from the blood volume pulse the peripheral arterial tone; iii) determining occurrences of sleep events from changes in the peripheral arterial tone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Ectosense NV
    Inventors: Bart Van Pee, Frederik Massie, Duarte Mingot De Almeida Mendes De Almeida
  • Patent number: 12257075
    Abstract: Methods, systems and devices for aligning measurement data sets from different devices. In one embodiment, a synchronization platform includes circuitry configured to establish a first communication link with a first device being worn at a first location on a body of a user, receive a first set of measurement data from a first sensor of the first device indicative of physiological measurements of the user. The circuitry is further configured to: establish a second communication link with the second device, receive a second set of measurement data of the first type from a second sensor of the second device indicative of the physiological measurements of the user, and align the second set of measurement data with the first set of measurement data, wherein the second set of measurement data is a continuation of the first set of measurement data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: JRE Star Investment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Devin Warner Miller, David Rich Miller, Jeffrey Michael Lee
  • Patent number: 12245861
    Abstract: An apparatus comprises a dual electrode assembly comprising: a non-contact electrode, a dry electrode having multiple contact pins, and a housing configured to enclose the dry electrode when the dry electrode is in a first position, and to expose the multiple contact pins outside the housing when the dry electrode is in a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Qneuro, Inc
    Inventor: Dhiraj Jeyanandarajan
  • Patent number: 12224049
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring and managing neurological diseases and conditions are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method for monitoring a patient having a neurological disease or condition includes receiving, from one or more patient monitoring devices, first patient data for a baseline time period. The method can include determining, based on the first patient data, first seizure data and first side effect data during the baseline time period. The method can further include receiving, from the one or more patient monitoring devices, second patient data for a treatment time period, and determining, based on the second patient data, second seizure data and second side effect data during the treatment time period. The method can also include generating a personalized dose-response profile for the patient based on the first and second seizure data and the first and second side effect data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Eysz, Inc.
    Inventors: Rachel Kuperman, Parth Amin, Bikramjit Sarkar
  • Patent number: 12214128
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a blood pressure measuring apparatus includes a blood pressure measurement unit, a warning estimator, and a signal output unit. The measurement unit measures blood pressure of a target person. The estimator monitors variation of blood pressure measured by the measurement unit and estimates the variation of the blood pressure as a sign of a blood pressure increase associated with an onset of sleep apnea syndrome if the blood pressure continuously decreases to a preset threshold or lower for a predetermined time or longer. The output unit outputs a sign notification signal to outside of the apparatus if the sign is estimated by the estimator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yasushi Matsuoka
  • Patent number: 12207896
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for signal processing. The methods may include: directing a transmitter to transmit a beam of light to the subject; receiving a first signal collected by a first receiver according to a first receiving parameter of the first receiver, the first signal being reflected by the subject in response to the beam of light and at least comprising a photoplethysmograph (PPG) signal relating to the subject and a moving/vibrating signal relating to the subject; receiving a second signal collected by a second receiver according to a second receiving parameter of the second receiver, the second signal being reflected by the subject in response to the beam of light and at least comprising the moving/vibrating signal; identifying the PPG signal of the subject in the first signal by removing the moving/vibrating signal from the first signal based on the second signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: VITA-COURSE DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES (TSINGTAO) CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Zhiyong Wang, Liang Li, Jiao Yu
  • Patent number: 12138469
    Abstract: A serviceable wearable cardiac treatment device for continuous extended use by an ambulatory patient includes a garment and a device controller. The garment is configured to dispose therein a plurality of ECG sensing and therapy electrodes. The device controller is configured to be in separable electrical communication with the plurality of ECG sensing and therapy electrodes. The device controller includes an impact-resistant energy core, including a frame and capacitor(s) permanently bonded to the frame. The device controller includes a critical function circuit board, including critical function processor(s) and circuitry, and a non-critical function circuit board, including non-critical function processor(s) and circuitry. The critical function circuit board is in electrical communication with the capacitor(s) and configured to control critical operations of the device controller regardless of operability of the non-critical function circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Phillip H Amsler, Nathan J Berry Ann
  • Patent number: 12105772
    Abstract: A computer implemented method of preparing process data for use in an artificial intelligence (AI) model includes collecting and storing raw data as episodic data for each episode of a process. An episode data generator assigns an episode identifier each set of episodic data. The raw data per episode is transformed into a standardized episodic data format that is usable by the AI model. Metrics are assigned to the episodic data and the episodic data is aggregated in an episode store. The data in the episode store is used by a feature extraction and learning module to extract and rank features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Shrey Shrivastava, Dhavalkumar C. Patel, Jayant R. Kalagnanam, Chandrasekhara K. Reddy
  • Patent number: 12102448
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring patients with a chronic disease such as heart failure are disclosed. The system may include a physiological sensor circuit to sense physiological signals and generate signal metrics from the physiological signals. The system may include a health status analyzer circuit to use the signal metrics to generate one or more stability indicators of patient health status, such as stability of heart failure status. The system may additionally generate one or more health status indicators indicating patient health status such as heart failure progression. A patient disposition decision may be generated using the health status indicators and the stability indicators to provide an indication of readiness for patient discharge from or a risk of admission to a hospital.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2024
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi An, Jeffrey E. Stahmann, Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur, Viktoria A Averina, Keith R. Maile
  • Patent number: 12089356
    Abstract: A terminal device can include a metal contact component. The metal contact component can include a metal substrate and a non-allergenic contact layer which is on the metal substrate and the non-allergenic contact layer forms a part of outer surface of the terminal device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BEIJING XIAOMI MOBILE SOFTWARE CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Bing Liu
  • Patent number: 12067448
    Abstract: Disclosed are a reader device, system, and method for communicating with a wireless sensor. The reader device may be configured to analyze the strength of a response signal transmitted from the wireless sensor in response to an excitation pulse generated by the reader device. In one embodiment, the reader device may be configured to engage be placed in a plurality of modes to allow the reader to transmit a signal, such as a short pulse of energy or a short burst of radio frequency energy to cause the wireless sensor to output a resonant signal. The reader device may receive the resonant signal from the wireless sensor and evaluate it against predetermined values. The evaluated signals may be used to assess the strength and the proximity of the reader device relative to the wireless sensor as it is implanted in a patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: ENDOTRONIX, INC.
    Inventors: Balamurugan Sundaram, Michael Nagy, Douglas Nielsen, Suresh Sundaram, Harry Rowland
  • Patent number: 12064260
    Abstract: Systems and methods for providing a preferred fitness state of a use are disclosed. The system includes at least a sensor that detects at least a biological parameter of a user and a fitness state soring module that generates a current user fitness state using machine-learning and the at least a biological parameter. Methods of providing a preferred fitness state of a user include detecting at least a biological parameter of a user, determining by a fitness state sorting module a current user fitness state and determining a user specific recommendation by the fitness state sorting module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2024
    Assignee: SUMMIT INNOVATIONS GROUP, LLC
    Inventor: Trungram Gyaltrul Sherpa
  • Patent number: 12036065
    Abstract: A wireless system and method for measuring and analyzing blood in a user's body is provided. The system includes a processing, power, and communication component (PPC) having a hardware unit and first housing enclosing the hardware unit; a probe having a piezoelectric crystal and second housing enclosing the piezoelectric crystal; a dock having a sensor and third housing enclosing the sensor. The second housing is spaced apart from the first housing. The third housing is adapted to removably couple to the first housing. The piezoelectric crystal can transmit an ultrasound wave into the body, receive a return ultrasonic wave, convert the return wave into an electrical signal, and transmit the signal to the sensor. The sensor is configured to receive and then transmit the electronic signal to the hardware unit, which is configured to wirelessly transmit a data set based on the electronic signal to a computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2024
    Assignee: Orbicor Technologies Sociedad Anonima
    Inventors: Rafael Guillermo Corrales Flores, Yamilah Bouzid Jimenez, Jeiner Alberto Alvarado Fonseca, Laura Loaiciga Salazar
  • Patent number: 12004846
    Abstract: Methods for diagnosing if a patient is suffering from a stroke include: positioning a headset around the patient's head to receive vibrations generated by a cerebral vasculature of the patient's brain, the headset including at least one microphone or accelerometer; processing the received vibrations to obtain a signal; analyzing the signal to identify a pattern indicative of a stroke; and determining that the patient is suffering from a stroke based upon the result of a CT scan of the patient's brain and neck and the identified pattern indicative of a stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: Cerenetex, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin William Bobo, Mohsin Shah, John Chen, Michael Horowitz, Timothy Hays
  • Patent number: 11937902
    Abstract: Blood pressure is estimated in a non-constraining manner continuously and in real time. A biological signal collected from a person's dorsal part is analyzed, vibration in the human body ascribable to a blood flow rate change in a period from the ventricular filling period to the isovolumetric systole is captured, and the state of fluctuation of an index indicating the state of the in vivo vibration is further captured. This fluctuation index correlates with a person's blood pressure. Therefore, it is possible to estimate whether the blood pressure is in a range indicating a normal-range blood pressure or in a range indicating a high blood pressure, only by having the person sit or lie supine on a surface provided with a biological signal measurement device to measure a biological signal in a non-constraining manner, so as to make the biological signal measurement device contiguous with the person's dorsal part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignees: DELTA TOOLING CO., LTD., HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Etsunori Fujita, Masao Yoshizumi, Yumi Ogura, Kanako Takaichi, Shinichiro Maeda, Yoshika Nobuhiro
  • Patent number: 11918385
    Abstract: In some examples, a device includes a memory configured to store a first relationship between a blood pressure and another physiological parameter of a patient, the first relationship being indicative of cerebral autoregulation of the patient. The device also includes processing circuitry configured to receive first and second signals indicative of the blood pressure and the physiological parameter, respectively, of a patient. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine an expected value and an actual value of the physiological parameter at a particular blood pressure value of the first physiological signal. The processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on a difference between the actual value and the expected value, and store, in the memory, a second relationship between the blood pressure and the physiological parameter, the second relationship being indicative of a change in the cerebral autoregulation of the patient from the first relationship.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: COVIDIEN LP
    Inventors: Paul S. Addison, Dean Montgomery, Andre Antunes
  • Patent number: 11911185
    Abstract: An apparatus for estimating bio-information may include: a bio-signal acquirer configured to acquire a bio-signal; and a processor configured to extract one or more first feature values from the bio-signal, determine a scale factor based on the first feature values, and to estimate bio-information based on the scale factor and the first feature values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Chang Soon Park, Ui Kun Kwon, Yunseo Ku, Seung Woo Noh, Seung Keun Yoon, Dae Geun Jang
  • Patent number: 11896421
    Abstract: A system for monitoring blood distribution in a subject, the system comprising a processor(38) responsive to Doppler ultrasound data representing arterial blood flow in at least two different locations of the subject, such as the neck and the arm, to obtain velocity (C, B1, B2, B3) or volumetric flow rate at each location, to monitor changes in a predetermined function of the blood flows, and to provide an output indicative of the monitored changes which may result from blood volume centralization. This can indicate the onset of hypovolemia or hypervolemia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Franciscus Hendrikus Van Heesch, Nico Maris Adriaan De Wild, Rick Bezemer, Igor Wilhelmus Franciscus Paulussen
  • Patent number: 11896350
    Abstract: A system and method for measuring vital signs and motion from a patient comprising a plurality of sensors, each comprising a processor and analog-to-digital converter configured to generate the physiologic data waveform(s) from the sensor as synchronized, separately resolvable digital data comprising a header indicating the sensor from which the digital data originates, and to transmit the physiologic data waveform(s) to a processing system via a cable comprising a terminal connector that reversibly mates with one of a plurality functionally equivalent of connectors to operably connect the sensor to the processing system. The processing system receive sthe physiologic data waveforms and determines therefrom one or more vital signs for the individual, which are transmitted to a remote vital sign monitor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: SOTERA WIRELESS, INC.
    Inventors: Jim Moon, Devin McCombie, Marshal Dhillon, Matthew Banet
  • Patent number: 11887728
    Abstract: A medical network service can replace or supplement some or all of an expensive internally staffed clinical facility network with a cloud-based networking service. The medical network service in certain embodiments can provide networking services via software as a service technologies, platform as a service technologies, and/or infrastructure as a service technologies. The medical network service can provide these services to large existing clinical facilities such as metropolitan hospitals as well as to smaller clinical facilities such as specialized surgical centers. The medical network service can replace and/or supplement existing IT networks in hospitals and other clinical facilities and can therefore reduce costs and increase security and reliability of those networks. In addition, the medical network service can provide synergistic benefits that can improve patient outcomes and patient care.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Anand Sampath, Bilal Muhsin
  • Patent number: 11864896
    Abstract: Computer based systems and methods for estimating a user state are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods comprise inputting a first input at an intermittent interval and a second input at a frequent interval into a user state estimation model to estimate the user state. In some embodiments, the first inputs are enhanced by injecting a noise input to create a plurality of enhanced first inputs whereby the plurality of enhance first inputs correspond to the plurality of second inputs at the frequent interval. In some embodiments, the first input comprises a self-reported input and the second inputs comprise a physiological input, a performance input or a situational input. In some embodiments, a machine learning algorithm creates the state estimation model. In some embodiments, the state estimation model estimates a future user state. In some embodiments, a computer based system for estimating a user state is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Aptima, Inc.
    Inventors: Kevin Durkee, Scott Pappada, Andres Ortiz, William DePriest, John Feeney, Alexandra Geyer, Seamus Sullivan, Sterling Wiggins
  • Patent number: 11844489
    Abstract: Systems and methods to determine a composite respiration phase of a patient are disclosed, including a signal receiver circuit to receive first and second physiologic information of a patient, and an assessment circuit to determine first respiration phase information of the first physiologic information and to determine the composite respiration phase of the patient using the determined first respiration phase information and the second physiologic information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventor: Jeffrey E. Stahmann
  • Patent number: 11839456
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a method for determining a maximum value of a heart rate data of a user performing a physical activity. Acquire first heart rate data in a first duration of the physical activity performed by the user. Acquire motion data in the first duration of the physical activity performed by the user. Calculate second heart rate data based on the motion data in the first duration of the physical activity performed by the user by a mathematical model and estimate the maximum value of the heart rate data of the user based on a comparison between the first first heart rate data and the second heart rate data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: BOMDIC INC.
    Inventors: Szu-Hong Chen, Pin-Yu Chen, Tai-Yu Huang, Yu-Ting Liu
  • Patent number: 11832970
    Abstract: Systems and methods for monitoring patients for risk of worsening heart failure (WHF) are discussed. A patient management system includes a sensor circuit to receive respiration measurements, and an input device to receive patient dyspnea descriptor indicating dyspnea symptom severity. The system includes a risk analyzer circuit to trend the respiration measurement over time, and to generate a WHF risk indicator using both the trended respiration measurement and the received dyspnea descriptor. A control circuit controls the receiver circuit to receive the dyspnea descriptor in response to the trended respiration measurement satisfying a specific condition. The system can present the WHF risk indicator to a user or a process, or deliver or adjust a HF therapy based on the WHF risk indicator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Qi An, Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur, Yi Zhang, Viktoria A Averina
  • Patent number: 11801002
    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed for providing ongoing monitoring and updating of blood volume status, where the system or method can include guidance in the form of recommendations for treatment actions or alerts about altered patient status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: DAXOR CORP.
    Inventor: Jonathan Feldschuh
  • Patent number: 11799219
    Abstract: An interconnect assembly includes a main body being formed of flexible material and extending between a first end and a second end, the main body having a thickness defined by a top surface and a bottom surface. The interconnect assembly also includes a first connection port located proximate the first end. The interconnect assembly further includes a second connection port located proximate the second end. The interconnect assembly yet further includes a copper trace having a first contact and a second contact, the first contact disposed on the top surface and located adjacent to the first connection port, and the second contact located on the top surface and adjacent to the second connection port.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Mangesh Bramhe, Eric D. Pattok
  • Patent number: 11744502
    Abstract: An automated age detection system employing a patient monitoring lead assembly and a patent monitoring device. In operation, the patient monitoring lead assembly conducts electrical activity of a heart of a patient to the patient monitoring device. In response thereto, the patient monitoring device classifying the patient as an adult patient or a pediatric patient as a function of electrocardiogram feature(s) derived from electrocardiogram measurement(s) of the electrical heart activity. The patient monitoring device may further estimate the age as a function of electrocardiogram feature(s). The classification facilitates an appropriate application of an adult analysis or a pediatric analysis of the electrical heart activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventor: Richard E Gregg
  • Patent number: 11730960
    Abstract: The present specification discloses a neuromodulation system comprising a transcranially mounted neuromodulation device and a stimulation control computing environment. The disclosed neuromodulation device comprising at least one ultrasound transducer and at least one EEG electrode and the disclosed stimulation control computing environment comprises a stimulation control unit and offline computing device, the disclosed stimulation control unit including associated systems and methods for controlling the neuromodulation device functionality using acoustic simulations performed on brain image data as well as methods and uses of such neuromodulation systems in modulating brain activity using focused ultrasound stimulation of the thalamus and thalamic sub regions during certain phases of slow wave brain oscillations in order to treat various neural-based disorders or conditions including sleep disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ATTUNE NEUROSCIENCES, INC.
    Inventors: Keith R. Murphy, Pablo Villoslada, Rajiv Mahadevan
  • Patent number: 11725995
    Abstract: Various embodiments of a pressure sensor assembly and an implantable medical device that includes such assembly are disclosed. The assembly includes a substrate having a via that extends through the substrate along a via axis between a first major surface and a second major surface of the substrate, a membrane disposed on the first major surface of the substrate and over the via, and a patterned metal layer disposed on a first major surface of the membrane, a portion of such layer including a first capacitor plate. The assembly further includes an integrated circuit disposed adjacent to the first major surface of the membrane and electrically connected to the metal layer. The integrated circuit includes a second capacitor plate disposed on or within a substrate of the integrated circuit. The first capacitor plate and the second capacitor plate form a variable capacitor disposed along the via axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Fenner, David A. Ruben, Andrew J. Ries, Chetan Patel
  • Patent number: 11707323
    Abstract: A catheter system for treating a treatment site within or adjacent to a vessel wall or a heart valve includes an energy source, a balloon, an energy guide, and an electrical analyzer assembly. The energy source generates energy. The balloon is positionable substantially adjacent to the treatment site. The balloon has a balloon wall that defines a balloon interior that receives a balloon fluid. The energy guide is configured to receive energy from the energy source and guide the energy into the balloon interior. The electrical analyzer assembly is configured to monitor a balloon condition during use of the catheter system. The electrical analyzer assembly can include a first electrode, a second electrode, and an impedance detector that is electrically coupled to the first electrode and the second electrode. The impedance detector is configured to detect impedance between the first electrode and the second electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: BOLT MEDICAL, INC.
    Inventors: Eric Schultheis, Gerald D. Bacher
  • Patent number: 11678811
    Abstract: A method and system for contextual heart rate monitoring are disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises calculating a heart rate using a detected ECG signal and detecting an activity level. In a second aspect, the system comprises a wireless sensor device coupled to a user via at least one electrode, wherein the wireless sensor device includes a processor and a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device stores an application which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to calculate a heart rate using a detected ECG signal and to detect an activity level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Vital Connect, Inc.
    Inventors: Nima Ferdosi, Ravi Narasimhan, Alexander Chan
  • Patent number: 11672599
    Abstract: A catheter system and method for treating a treatment site within or adjacent to a vessel wall or a heart valve within a body of a patient includes an energy source, an inflatable balloon, an energy guide, and an acoustic sensor. The inflatable balloon is positionable substantially adjacent to the treatment site. The inflatable balloon has a balloon wall that defines a balloon interior that receives a balloon fluid. The energy guide receives energy from the energy source and guides the energy into the balloon interior. The acoustic sensor is positioned outside the body of the patient. The acoustic sensor senses acoustic sound waves generated in the balloon fluid within the balloon interior. The acoustic sensor generates a sensor signal based at least in part on the sensed acoustic sound waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: Bolt Medical, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Schultheis, Christopher A. Cook
  • Patent number: 11647967
    Abstract: A method and system for providing health-monitoring alarm management have been disclosed. In a first aspect, the method comprises detecting at least one vital sign signal using a wearable sensor device and managing an alarm mechanism of the wearable sensor device based on the at least one vital sign signal. In a second aspect, the system comprises a sensor for detecting at least one vital sign signal, a processor coupled to the sensor, and a memory device coupled to the processor, wherein the memory device stores an application which, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to manage an alarm mechanism of the wearable sensor device based on the at least one vital sign signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Vital Connect, Inc.
    Inventor: Nandakumar Selvaraj
  • Patent number: 11625937
    Abstract: A weight management system for managing vehicle seat occupant body weight by using vehicle cameras and weight sensors of a plurality of vehicles having onboard communication modules. Each vehicle is equipped to analyze and compare weight changes of the vehicle seat occupant over time. Based on the weight status, a weight management recommendation can be transmitted to the vehicle seat occupant. Each vehicle is operatively connected to a weight management application in a data center. The weight management application includes a registration module which registers each vehicle. Additionally, a vehicle seat occupant may register with the weight management application to have his/her weight analyzed when travelling in any of the plurality of vehicles. The weight management application requests a search of a data lake and analysis of search results by a weight data artificial intelligence analytics program to improve the weight management recommendation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC.
    Inventor: Alexander T. Pham
  • Patent number: 11623121
    Abstract: Using aggregate activity data to generate a grade adjusted pace model is disclosed, including: receiving a plurality of activities; selecting a portion of the plurality of activities based at least in part on recorded heart rate information associated with the plurality of activities; and generating a Grade Adjusted Pace (GAP) model based at least in part on the selected portion of the plurality of activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Strava, Inc.
    Inventor: Drew Robb
  • Patent number: 11623044
    Abstract: Implementations illustrated herein discloses a method of controlling drug titration to a patient, the method including receiving, using a processor, a sequence of depth images, each depth image including depth information for at least a portion of the patient, determining, using the processor, a sequence of physiological signals for the patient based on the sequence of depth images, analyzing, using the processor, the sequence of physiological signals for the patient to determine a change in a condition of the patient, and generating a signal to a drug infusion pump in response to determining the change in the condition of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Covidien LP
    Inventor: Paul S. Addison
  • Patent number: 11607139
    Abstract: A congenital heart disease monitor utilizes a sensor capable of emitting multiple wavelengths of optical radiation into a tissue site and detecting the optical radiation after attenuation by pulsatile blood flowing within the tissue site. A patient monitor is capable of receiving a sensor signal corresponding to the detected optical radiation and calculating at least one physiological parameter in response. The physiological parameter is measured at a baseline site and a comparison site and a difference in these measurements is calculated. A potential congenital heart disease condition in indicated according to the measured physiological parameter at each of the sites or the calculated difference in the measured physiological parameter between the sites or both.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: MASIMO CORPORATION
    Inventor: Massi Joe E. Kiani
  • Patent number: 11607547
    Abstract: Methods and systems for treating epilepsy by stimulating a cranial nerve and administering to the patient a responsiveness test and comparing a result of the responsiveness test to a baseline responsiveness test and initiating a second therapy or issuing a warning based on the comparison of the result of the responsiveness test to the baseline responsiveness test.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Flint Hills Scientific, LLC
    Inventor: Ivan Osorio
  • Patent number: 11564570
    Abstract: A biological information measuring apparatus includes a detector, a measuring unit, a calculator, and a determining unit. The detector detects pulse waves continuously. The measuring unit measures first biological information. The calculator calculates second biological information from the pulse waves based on the first biological information. The measuring unit suspends the measurement and resumes the measurement after a lapse of a period in a case where the determining unit does not determine that the result of measurement is normal, and the measuring unit continues the measurement in other cases where the body motion is not generated, the pulse waves are not irregular or the blood pressure value fails to vary.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignees: OMRON CORPORATION, OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa, Shingo Yamashita, Hiroyuki Kinoshita, Yuki Ota
  • Patent number: 11523778
    Abstract: Systems and methods for detecting worsening cardiac conditions such as worsening heart failure events are described. A system may include sensor circuits to sense physiological signals and signal processors to generate from the physiological signals first and second signal metrics. The system may include a risk stratifier circuit to produce a cardiac risk indication. The system may use at least the first signal metric to generate a primary detection indication, and use at least the second signal metric and the risk indication to generate a secondary detection indication. The risk indication may be used to modulate the second signal metric. A detector circuit may detect the worsening cardiac event using the primary and secondary detection indications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.
    Inventors: Pramodsingh Hirasingh Thakur, Yi Zhang, Qi An, Viktoria A. Averina
  • Patent number: 11519797
    Abstract: A gripping force measurement device includes a body portion and a plurality of pressure sensors. The plurality of pressure sensors includes at least one first sensor and two or more second sensors including pressure-sensitive surfaces oriented in the same direction. A pressure-sensitive surface of the first sensor and the pressure-sensitive surfaces of the two or more second sensors are disposed such that, when a subject pressurizes the pressure-sensitive surface of the first sensor and the pressure-sensitive surfaces of the two or more second sensors, the gripping force measurement device is grippable by the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignees: Kitagawa Industries Co., Ltd., University of Yamanashi
    Inventors: Kazuki Yamada, Yasuo Kondo, Lu Zhao, Hidetsugu Terada, Koji Makino, Takaiki Kanagawa
  • Patent number: 11499851
    Abstract: Methods and systems for sensor fusion as a service include receiving a sensor fusion intent descriptive of desired data from a specified environment; determining candidate sensors present in the specified environment that may be used to obtain at least a portion of the desired data; and transforming the sensor fusion intent into a sensor fusion manifest by selecting a plurality of the candidate sensors to obtain respective output data, and by defining at least one action to fuse the respective output data into the desired data, wherein the sensor fusion manifest includes an identification of the selected candidate sensors and the at least one action to fuse the respective output data from the selected candidate sensors into the desired data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Marcelo Yannuzzi Sanchez, Carlos M. Pignataro, Hervé Muyal, Simon Dyke
  • Patent number: 11488271
    Abstract: This document presents a system and method for presenting vetted and verified Supplier information to Buyers. The Know Your Suppler (TYS) Application collects previously vetted and verified Supplier information and commits the collected information, verification authorities, verification details, and transaction information to a shared distributed ledger implemented as a privately permissioned blockchain. Buyers who want to onboard a newly identified Supplier, or update Supplier information with more recently verified information records, may subscribe to the TYS Application and purchase available vetted and verified Supplier information to optimize the onboarding or updating process for Suppliers from whom the Buyer wants to purchase goods or services.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Inventors: Mohan Venkataraman, Sai Nidamarty, Shyam Charit Adivi, Alex Rosen, Gary Storr, Stephen John Rogers, Derek Lamar Harrison, Vishnu Praneeth Tadepalli, Daniel J. Schaefer
  • Patent number: 11478198
    Abstract: Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and systems for performing physiological parameter signal fusion. By respectively analyzing a plurality of input physiological parameter signals, and obtaining a feature of each physiological parameter signal; according to the feature of each physiological parameter signal, obtaining and outputting a fusion state of the plurality of the physiological parameter signals; if the fusion state is a fusion of the at least two physiological parameter signals with the first physiological parameter signal is dominant, highlighting the first physiological parameter signal; and if the fusion state is a fusion of the at least two physiological parameter signals with the second physiological parameter signal is dominant, highlighting the second physiological parameter signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Shenzhen Mindray Bio-Medical Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Zehui Sun, Bailei Sun, Chaocheng Xie, Jianwei Su, Sanchao Liu, Wenyu Ye, Lihan Liu, Ming Li