Detecting Heartbeat Electric Signal Patents (Class 600/509)
  • Patent number: 12293287
    Abstract: A set of training electrocardiograms (ECGs) for each of a plurality of subjects is processed using a machine learning model to generate an output for each training ECG of each of the plurality of subjects. Training ECGs for each subject are labeled with an identity of the subject. A machine learning model is trained by comparing the output generated for each training ECG to a corresponding label of the training ECG to generate an identity model to identify ECGs of a first subject of the plurality of subjects. A first ECG is received from an ECG sensor and input to the identity model, which generates an output indicating whether the first ECG corresponds to the first subject. In response to the output indicating that the first ECG does not correspond to the first subject, a condition that the first subject has or may develop is determined based on the output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: ALIVECOR, INC.
    Inventors: Conner Daniel Galloway, Alexander Vainius Valys, David E. Albert, Frank Losasso Petterson
  • Patent number: 12293822
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods for of assessing stain titer levels. An exemplary method includes generating a set of field of views for the image or the region of the image, selecting field of views from the set of field of views that meet predefined criteria, creating a series of patches within each of the selected field of views, retaining patches from the series of patches that meet predefined criteria indicative of a presence of the stain for which the titer is to be estimated, deriving stain color features and stain intensity features pertaining to the stain from the retained patches, estimating a titer score for each of the retained patches based on the stain color features and the stain intensity features, and calculating a weighted average score for the titer of the stain based on the estimated titer score for each of the retained patches.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: VENTANA MEDICAL SYSTEMS, INC.
    Inventors: Yao Nie, Maria V. Sainz De Cea
  • Patent number: 12293269
    Abstract: A method includes accessing a structured content item from a first database and event data from a second database, the event data including sets of event attributes in a multi-dimensional namespace and associated with a respective point in time; determining a relevancy profile characterizing a metric of relevancy of the structured content item over a respective time interval, the metric of relevancy including a distance in the multi-dimensional namespace between attributes associated with the structured content and the sets of event attributes; generating, using the relevancy profile, second digital content including a subset of the structured content item; and providing the second digital content for rendering on a device. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2024
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Nant Holdings IP, LLC
    Inventor: Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Patent number: 12290349
    Abstract: A method for checking a position and/or an orientation of a catheter tip of a catheter, in particular a central venous catheter, in a patient's body, a medical system set up for carrying out such a method, and a use of such a method during a catheterization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: B. Braun Melsungen AG
    Inventors: Jens Wildhagen, David Thalmann, Dejana Vukovic
  • Patent number: 12292732
    Abstract: A system may include sensor device comprising a sensor configured to measure sensor data indicating an operational parameter of industrial automation equipment associated with an industrial automation process. The system may also include communication circuitry configured to transmit the sensor data. Additionally, the system includes a processor configured to receive the sensor data. Further, the system includes a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause the processor to perform operations including identifying an operational state of the industrial automation equipment based on the sensor data. The operations may also include determining a discrepancy between the sensor data and the operational state. Further, the operations may include modifying an operation of the processor from a first operational mode to a second operational mode of a plurality of operational based on the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Bijan SayyarRodsari, Richard W. Arling, Wei Dai
  • Patent number: 12289126
    Abstract: A method and a device for joint suppression of narrowband and multiple access interference are provided. The method includes: performing time domain windowing processing on a received signal, and performing frequency domain interference processing on a signal after windowing processing to obtain a matched filter and a time domain signal; obtaining reconstructed baseband received data for a signal of each channel; obtaining reconstructed signals after matched filtering; accumulating the reconstructed signals of multiple channels to obtain a reconstructed accumulated value, obtaining a compensation value according to a difference between the time domain signal and the reconstructed accumulated value, and compensating the reconstructed signals with the compensation value to obtain an actual received signal of the each channel; and outputting a joint suppression result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2024
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Jingyuan Li, Rong Zhou, Xinming Huang, Shaojie Ni, Hang Gong, Wenxiang Liu, Zengjun Liu, Ke Zhang, Yuchen Xie, Sixin Wang, Kuo Cao
  • Patent number: 12285244
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for monitoring a subject are described. A monitoring device configured to be attached to a body of a subject includes a sensor that is configured to detect and/or measure physiological information from the subject and at least one motion sensor configured to detect and/or measure subject motion information. The physiological sensor and motion sensor are in communication with a processor that is configured to receive and analyze signals produced by the physiological sensor and motion sensor. The processor is configured to process motion sensor signals to identify an activity characteristic of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2025
    Assignee: YUKKA MAGIC LLC
    Inventors: Michael Edward Aumer, Steven Francis LeBoeuf
  • Patent number: 12279841
    Abstract: One example method for improving robotic surgical safety via video processing includes identifying, during a robotic surgical procedure, one or more surgical tools using one or more images of the surgical procedure captured by a camera, the robotic surgical procedure employing a robotic surgical device controlling the one or more identified surgical tools; predicting, for at least one of the one or more images, one or more loaded surgical tools that are controlled by the robotic surgical device and should be in a field of view of the camera; comparing the one or more identified surgical tools with the one or more loaded surgical tools; determining that at least one of the one or more loaded surgical tools does not match any of the one or more identified surgical tools; and causing the at least one loaded tool of the robotic surgical device to be disabled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Verily Life Sciences LLC
    Inventors: Caitlin Donhowe, Joƫlle Barral, Xing Jin
  • Patent number: 12279852
    Abstract: A physiological monitor switches between a time domain analysis and a frequency domain analysis for determining a heart rate based on objective indicia of signal quality in an acquired heart rate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Whoop, Inc.
    Inventors: William Ahmed, John Vincenzo Capodilupo, Aurelian Nicolae
  • Patent number: 12283360
    Abstract: An apparatus for use with a medical imaging device (2) operative in conjunction with a contrast injector (11) to perform a contrast enhanced medical imaging procedure. The apparatus includes: an alert output device (32), and at least one electronic processor (10, 20) operatively connected with the alert output device and programmed to: extract image frames from video or screen sharing (17) of a display (13, 24?); screen-scrape injector settings of the contrast injector from the image frames; and output an alert (30) via the alert output device if the screen-scraped injector settings satisfy an alert criterion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
    Inventors: Olga Starobinets, Sandeep Madhukar Dalal, Ranjith Naveen Tellis, Hareesh Chamarthi, Yuchen Qian, Vijay Parthasarathy
  • Patent number: 12279893
    Abstract: A system is provided that includes one or more electrodes configured to be implanted proximate to a sensing site, and a memory configured to store first and second sets of filter parameters that define first and second noise stop bands. The system also includes an implantable medical device (IMD) that has inputs configured to receive sensed signals, the sensed signals include frequency components associated with physiology activity and frequency components associated with noise. The IMD also includes a band-stop filter communicating with the sensing channel inputs. When executing program instructions, a processor switches the band-stop filter from the first set of filter parameters to the second set of filter parameters to shift from the first noise stop band to the second noise stop band based on the noise in the environment of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Pacesetter, Inc.
    Inventors: Dean P. Andersen, Christopher Gloschat
  • Patent number: 12277763
    Abstract: According to one embodiment, a load estimation apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry acquires sensor data from a measurement target, calculates one or more posture loads relating to one or more body parts of the measurement target based on the sensor data, and displays display data including a posture load graph in which the one or more posture loads are illustrated in time series.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yasunobu Yamauchi, Tsukasa Ike, Izumi Fukunaga, Akiyuki Tanizawa
  • Patent number: 12278636
    Abstract: This application is directed to a data interface having an input interface for receiving a differential input signal and a reference interface for providing a predefined reference voltage. A high pass filter is coupled to the input interface, and configured to filter the differential input signal and generate a filtered differential input signal. A differential integrator is coupled to the high pass filter and reference interface, and configured to receive the filtered differential input signal and generate a differential output signal including a first output signal and a second output signal. Each of the first and second output signals has a common mode output voltage substantially equal to the predefined reference voltage. In some embodiments, the data interface includes a connector including a plurality of data lanes and a pair of command pins that are distinct from the data lanes and coupled to the input interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2025
    Assignee: PARADE TECHNOLOGIES, LTD.
    Inventors: Hongquan Wang, Shengyuan Zhang, Qing Chen, Liang Xu, Kochung Lee
  • Patent number: 12272456
    Abstract: A system comprising a pair of devices to enable communication between a first person and a second person; a body-suit to be worn by the first person; and a model replica of the body-suit configured to receive the tactile stimuli and/or the electrical stimuli from the second person and to convert the tactile stimuli and/or the electrical stimuli into the electrical signals which are conveyed to the body-suit over a network; wherein the body-suit is configured to replicate the tactile stimuli and/or the electrical stimuli of the model replica and convey the tactile stimuli and/or the electrical stimuli to the first person; and wherein the system allows a human to send a physical sensation of touch remotely to another human.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Inventors: Neil S. Davey, Sonya Davey, Samir Devalaraja, Sanjay Kunchakarra
  • Patent number: 12268527
    Abstract: The present disclosure presents arrhythmia analysis systems and methods. One such method comprises processing an acquired ECG waveform signal to remove noise artifacts and form a denoised ECG waveform signal; processing the denoised ECG waveform signal to remove low quality segments and form a high quality ECG waveform signal; analyzing the high quality ECG waveform to detect a presence of a beat-independent ventricular arrhythmia; processing the denoised ECG signal to extract beat (R-peak) locations corresponding to QRS complexes from the denoised ECG signal; analyzing the denoised ECG signal to detect a presence of a beat-dependent ventricular arrhythmia based on the extracted beat (R-peak) locations; analyzing the denoised ECG signal to detect a presence of one or more supraventricular arrhythmias based on the extracted beat locations of the ECG signal; and outputting a report containing one or more arrhythmias detected by the analyzing steps. Other methods/systems are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Board of Regents, The University of Texas System
    Inventors: Vignesh Kalidas, Lakshman S. Tamil
  • Patent number: 12268530
    Abstract: Methods, systems, and devices for illness detection are described. A method may include receiving heart rate variability (HRV) data associated with a user from a wearable device, the HRV data collected via the wearable device throughout a first time interval and a second time interval subsequent to the first time interval. The method may include inputting the HRV data into a classifier, and identifying a satisfaction of deviation criteria between a first subset of the HRV data collected throughout the first time interval and a second subset of the HRV data collected throughout the second time interval. The method may include causing a graphical user interface (GUI) of a user device to display an illness risk metric for the user based on the satisfaction of the deviation criteria, the illness risk metric associated with a relative probability that the user will transition from a healthy state to an unhealthy state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: Oura Health Oy
    Inventors: Gerald Pho, Kirstin Aschbacher, Marco Altini, Harpreet Rai, Michael Chapp
  • Patent number: 12257023
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses and methods for measuring stress with a wearable device. In one apparatus, a wearable device includes a housing formed and shaped to affix to a user, a sensor integrated into the housing operable to engage a body of the user to take physiological measurements of the user over a threshold period of time to obtain physiological data, and a processing device coupled to the sensor. The processing device may be operable to receive, from the sensor, a first physiological data; receive, from the sensor, a second physiological data; determine a correlation between the first physiological data and the second physiological data; and determine a stress level of a bodily system of the user based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: JRE Star Investment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Devin Warner Miller, David Rich Miller, Jeffrey Michael Lee
  • Patent number: 12257001
    Abstract: The invention disclosed here generally relates to devices used to identify the location of a never in order to modify a property of the nerve. Specifically, the invention utilized pre-operative scans of a patient's nasal cavity in order to identify target treatment locations when a nerve to be treated is located. The image of the nasal cavity and target treatment location can be registered with the real time position of the nasal cavity using a surgical navigation system in order to assist in guiding a surgical probe to the target treatment location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Arrinex, Inc.
    Inventors: Vahid Saadat, William Jason Fox, Mojgan Saadat
  • Patent number: 12257024
    Abstract: Described herein are apparatuses and methods for measuring stress with a wearable device. In one apparatus, a wearable device includes a housing formed and shaped to affix to a user, a sensor integrated into the housing operable to engage a body of the user to take physiological measurements of the user over a threshold period of time to obtain physiological data, and a processing device coupled to the sensor. The processing device may be operable to receive, from the sensor, a first physiological data; receive, from the sensor, a second physiological data; determine a correlation between the first physiological data and the second physiological data; and determine a stress level of a bodily system of the user based on the correlation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: JRE Star Investment Holdings, LLC
    Inventors: Devin Warner Miller, David Rich Miller, Jeffrey Michael Lee
  • Patent number: 12259690
    Abstract: An electronic device, such as a watch, has an input mechanism, such as a crown, that may receive translational inputs, rotational inputs, and/or touch inputs. Inputs received at the crown may result in changes in operation of the electronic device and/or outputs, such as graphical outputs, provided by the electronic device. In various embodiments, the crown includes a retainer that couples an outer crown body to an inner crown body and secures an isolator between the outer crown body and the inner crown body. The embodiments of the crown described herein provide a simple and robust input mechanism for receiving rotational, translational, and touch inputs as described above, while simplifying part alignment, ensuring consistent rotation, and allowing for efficient manufacturing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Pandya, Steven C. Roach, Colin M. Ely, Erik G. de Jong
  • Patent number: 12256794
    Abstract: Gloves including one or more layers having at least one radar detectable mark formed of radar detectable material and/or an infrared detectable mark formed of infrared absorbing ink disposed on the surface thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventor: Donald F. Zabkar, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12251226
    Abstract: An ambulatory cardiac device for improving a signal to noise profile of an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal of a patient is provided. The ambulatory cardiac device includes a plurality of active ECG electrodes disposed in a plurality of locations about a patient. Each active electrode can include an ECG electrode substrate configured to be in physical contact with skin of the patient, a local biasing substrate proximate to the ECG electrode substrate and configured to be in physical contact with the skin of the patient, and local biasing circuitry configured to provide a local biasing signal into a body of the patient via the local biasing substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventor: Nathan J. Berry Ann
  • Patent number: 12245983
    Abstract: A CPR chest compression machine includes a retention structure that is configured to retain a body of the patient, and a compression mechanism. The compression mechanism is coupled to the retention structure and configured to perform successive compressions to the patient's chest. Various types of chest compressions may be performed on a patient during a single resuscitation event. Some embodiments also include a driver configured to drive the compression mechanism. The compression mechanism may thus perform chest compressions that differ from each other in a number of aspects, for example the depth of the compressions or the height of the active decompressions between the compressions. Some embodiments also include an adjustment mechanism. The adjustment mechanism may shift the compression mechanism with respect to the patient so that the chest compressions are performed at different locations of the patient's chest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: PHYSIO-CONTROL, INC.
    Inventors: Fred W. Chapman, Gregory T. Kavounas
  • Patent number: 12245862
    Abstract: An electrode patch 100 for monitoring electrical activity generated by a subject is disclosed. The electrode patch comprises a plurality of spatially arranged electrodes 102 for contacting an outer surface of a skin of the subject to sense and measure electrical potentials at multiple electrodes 102. The electrode patch 100 further comprises at least one connector portion 104 for connecting to a connector of a connector device. The connector portion 104 is spaced apart from the electrodes 102 and is electrically connected with the electrodes 102. A connector device for connecting to such electrode patch is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Alimetry Limited
    Inventors: Gregory O'Grady, Armen Gharibans, Peng Du, Thomas Hayes, James Sebastian Hannon-Tan
  • Patent number: 12245850
    Abstract: Systems and methods for confirming the tip location of a catheter. The system can include an ivECG acquisition module for receiving ECG data from an implanted endovascular device and a notification module. The system can calculate PxI and distance parameters to determine the location of the tip of the implanted endovascular device relative to a predetermined location such as the cavoatrial junction. The system can use chaos theory and the concept of self-organized criticality (SOC) to determine parameters where P-waves are absent or atypical. The notification module can include one or more of an audio signal, a video signal, and a tactile signal. Also disclosed are systems and methods of establishing an electrical pathway within a previously positioned catheter, including saline columns and electrically conductive guidewires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2025
    Assignee: Bard Access Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Anthony D. DeCheek, Anthony K. Misener
  • Patent number: 12239448
    Abstract: Electrical impulses are received from a beating heart. The electrical impulses are converted to an ECG waveform. The ECG waveform is converted to a frequency domain waveform, which, in turn, is separated into two or more different frequency domain waveforms, which, in turn, are converted into a plurality of time domain cardiac electrophysiological subwaveforms and discontinuity points between these subwaveforms. The plurality of subwaveforms and discontinuity points are compared to a database of subwaveforms and discontinuity points for normal and abnormal patients or to a set of rules developed from the database. A bundle branches (BB) to J-Point (BB-J) interval is identified from the plurality of subwaveforms and discontinuity points based on the comparison. The ECG waveform with the BB-J interval annotated is displayed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Inventors: Guangren Chen, Jia Li Chen, Rong Yang
  • Patent number: 12239832
    Abstract: A heart support system is provided includes a control unit and sound-generating devices, said control unit configured to detect and process alarm events and to carry out control tasks in the heart support system. The heart support system further includes a storage device configured to store one or more defined alarm signal time curves and one or more alarm priorities. Each alarm signal time curve and each alarm priority is assigned to an alarm event. A sound-generation controller is configured such that when an alarm event is detected, the controller overlays a volume time curve onto the alarm signal time curve assigned to the alarm event in the storage device, said volume time curve based on the alarm priority assigned to the respective alarm event in the storage device and the length of time since the detection of the alarm event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Berlin Heart GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Frischke, Florian Jankowsky
  • Patent number: 12237080
    Abstract: The present invention relates to methods and apparatuses for estimating the status of a bladder, especially with respect to the likelihood of an imminent voiding of the bladder. The apparatuses carry out computer-implemented methods of estimating a bladder status employing a bladder monitor which collects bladder data (e.g. using ultrasound) and transmits the bladder data to a data processor for algorithmic conversion to a bladder status. Such algorithms may be trained and tuned to a particular person's bladder. Having established a bladder status based on otherwise esoteric bladder data, the data processor may then trigger an alert signal where the bladder status meets particular criteria indicating an imminent voiding event. Such a trigger signal may be used to alert a nocturnal enuresis patient to an impending void so that they can be awoken before any bedwetting occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: University of Central Lancashire
    Inventors: Darren William Ansell, Caroline Sanders, Peter Leather, Mahdi Amina, Kaya Kuru
  • Patent number: 12237087
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a WCD is described. The WCD includes a support structure configured to be worn by a patient and a processor coupled to the support structure. The WCD also includes an energy storage module configured to store an electrical charge and in communication with the processor. The WCD also includes a discharge circuit coupled to the energy storage module, the discharge circuit in communication with the processor and configured to discharge the stored electrical charge through a body of the patient. The processor is configured to detect an event at the WCD, classify the detected event, and determine an alarm onset time of the detected event based at least in part on the event classification. The processor is further configured to issue the alarm after the alarm onset time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: West Affum Holdings DAC
    Inventors: Zoie R. Engman, David P. Finch, Joseph L. Sullivan, Erick M. Roane, Pamela F. Breske
  • Patent number: 12226218
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for predicting a blockage of a coronary artery are provided. The method includes: obtaining multiple pieces of electrocardiogram (ECG) data respectively corresponding to a coronary artery set; generating multiple first probabilities corresponding to the multiple pieces of electrocardiogram data respectively according to the multiple pieces of electrocardiogram data and a first phase model, generating a first determined result according to the multiple first probabilities, and selecting a first data subset corresponding to a first probability subset from the multiple pieces of electrocardiogram data in response to each one in the first data subset of the multiple first probabilities being greater than a first threshold; generating multiple second probabilities corresponding to the first data subset according to the first data subset and a second phase model, and generating a second determined result according to the multiple second probabilities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignees: ACER INCORPORATED, National Health Research Institutes, CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, KEELUNG, ACER MEDICAL INC.
    Inventors: Yun-Hsuan Chan, Chun-Hsien Li, Jun-Hong Chen, Tsung-Hsien Tsai, Ting-Fen Tsai, Chi-Hsiao Yeh
  • Patent number: 12226235
    Abstract: Classification of heartbeats based on intracardiac and body surface electrocardiogram (ECG) signals are provided. Intracardiac ECG (IC-ECG) signals and body surface ECG (BS-ECG) signals are processed to perform heartbeat classifications. A BS annotation of BS-ECG signals reflective of a sensed heartbeat is defined, the BS annotation including a BS annotation time value. IC annotations of IC-ECG signals which reflect atrial-activity or ventricular activity of the sensed heartbeat are also defined, each IC annotation including an IC annotation time value. The IC-ECG signals are discriminated as A-activity or V-activity and IC annotations are designated as IC-A annotations or IC-V annotations, respectively. A respective A/V time sequence comparison of IC annotations reflective of the sensed heartbeat is made with one or more time sequence templates for heartbeat classification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Vladimir Rubinstein, Meir Bar-Tal
  • Patent number: 12226673
    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: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: Salutron, Inc.
    Inventor: Lino Velo
  • Patent number: 12220210
    Abstract: A cardiac physiological parameter measuring method, a device, a terminal and a computer storage medium, comprising: by means of one or more vibration sensors, acquiring vibration information of a subject to be tested that is in a supine state, the vibration sensors being configured to be disposed below the left shoulder of the subject to be tested; generating hemodynamic related information on the basis of the vibration information determining an MC feature point of an MC event on the basis the hemodynamic related information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: CARDIOSTORY INC.
    Inventors: Shaochun Zhuang, Fei Ye, Yeping Li
  • Patent number: 12220009
    Abstract: Gloves including one or more layers having at least one radar detectable mark disposed on the surface thereof are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Acushnet Company
    Inventor: Donald F. Zabkar, Jr.
  • Patent number: 12220241
    Abstract: An electronic device and a method for selecting a feature of an electrocardiogram (ECG) are provided. The method includes: obtaining the ECG; performing a first pre-processing on the ECG to generate a first ECG; marking multiple extreme points corresponding to at least one type of wave on the first ECG; calculating a first feature value corresponding to a first feature according to the multiple extreme points of the at least one type of wave, generating a first performance index corresponding to a machine learning model according to the first feature value, and determining whether to select the first feature according to the first performance index; and outputting the first feature in response to selecting the first feature.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignees: National Health Research Institutes, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung, Acer Medical Inc., Acer Incorporated
    Inventors: Jun-Hong Chen, Chun-Hsien Li, Yun-Hsuan Chan, Ting-Fen Tsai, Chi-Hsiao Yeh
  • Patent number: 12220213
    Abstract: Methods and devices for obtaining a blood pressure measurement of a subject measure a transit time of a blood pulse of the subject. A method includes sensing, with a pulse ejection sensor of a wrist-worn device, ejection of blood from the left ventricle. Arrival of a resulting blood pressure pulse at the wrist is sensed via a pulse arrival sensor of the wrist-worn device. A transit time of the blood pressure pulse from the left ventricle to the wrist is determined. A relative blood pressure value of the subject is determined based on the transit time. A reference absolute blood pressure value associated with the relative blood pressure value is received. An absolute blood pressure value for the relative blood pressure value is determined based on the reference absolute blood pressure value and the relative blood pressure value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Erno H. Klaassen, Wren Nancy Dougherty, Richard C. Kimoto, Ravi K. Narasimhan, Thomas J. Sullivan, Stephen J. Waydo, Todd K. Whitehurst, Santiago Quijano, Derek Park-Shing Young, Zijing Zeng
  • Patent number: 12222395
    Abstract: A method, an apparatus and a device for identifying battery parameters, and a storage medium are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: SHANGHAI MAKESENS ENERGY STORAGE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaohua Chen, Zhimin Zhou, Qiong Wei, Xiao Yan, Enhai Zhao, Pingchao Hao, Zhou Yang
  • Patent number: 12214214
    Abstract: A remote alarm for use with a wearable medical device. The remote alarm is configured to receive alarms, voice messages and prompts issued by the wearable medical device and to repeat those alarms, voice messages and prompts in a manner that can more easily be perceived by a patient wearing the wearable medical device or a bystander. The remote alarm can be configured to receive a communication from the wearable medical device, and in response, to identify one or more messages to be provided to the patient or a bystander. The messages may be provided audibly, visually, tactilely or combinations thereof. The remote alarm may further be configured to take certain actions depending upon the content of the communication, such as sending a telephone message to alert emergency personnel to the identity, location and medical condition of the patient, or sending an email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2024
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E. Kaib, Shane S. Volpe, Richard A. Rattanni
  • Patent number: 12212375
    Abstract: A processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: compare a first index with a first reference value that has been determined for the first index, the first index indicating a receiving performance of a wireless signal that has been received by a receiving antenna from a medical device; perform switching to a first mode or a second mode based on a result of the comparing; and when the switching has been performed to the second mode, set a radiation direction of the receiving antenna toward a section in which a second index satisfies a condition relative to a second reference value that has been determined for the second index, from among a plurality of sections from which the receiving antenna receives the wireless signal, the second index indicating the receiving performance of the wireless signal that has been received.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: OLYMPUS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yukako Kato
  • Patent number: 12207942
    Abstract: Hat, helmet, and other headgear apparatus includes dry electrophysiological electrodes and, optionally, other physiological and/or environmental sensors to measure signals such as ECG from the head of a subject. Methods of use of such apparatus to provide fitness, health, or other measured or derived, estimated, or predicted metrics are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2024
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: Orbital Research Inc.
    Inventors: Frederick J. Lisy, Anthony Opperman, David D. Dashevsky
  • Patent number: 12207908
    Abstract: Compact, mobile three-lead cardiac monitoring devices for remote detection and/or diagnosis of cardiac events (e.g., acute myocardial infarction). The apparatus may include two integrated hand electrodes and two chest electrodes disposed on two pivotable arms that are capable of retracting in the compartments, enabling a compact size when the device is not used. Also described herein are systems including these devices and methods of using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: HeartBeam, Inc.
    Inventors: Branislav Vajdic, Bosko Vulicevic, Ljupco Hadzievski
  • Patent number: 12201786
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a system includes generator coils to generate respective magnetic fields, a catheter including a distal end, which includes magnetic coil sensors to output electrical signals based on detection of the respective magnetic fields, and processing circuitry to receive the electrical signals from the magnetic coil sensors, select at least one of magnetic fields having a magnetic field gradient as a function of at least one of the received electrical signals, compute a difference between magnetic field magnitudes of the at least one selected magnetic field detected by the first magnetic coil sensor and the second magnetic coil sensor as a function of the electrical signals, and compute a dimension of the distal end, based on the difference between the magnetic field magnitudes of the at least one selected magnetic field and the magnetic field gradient of the at least one selected magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Vadim Gliner, Christopher Thomas Beeckler
  • Patent number: 12201404
    Abstract: Systems, methods, devices, and techniques for estimating a heart disease prediction of a mammal. An electrocardiogram (ECG) procedure is performed on a mammal, and a computer system obtains ECG data that describes results of the ECG over a period of time. The system provides a predictive input that is based on the ECG data to a predictive model, such as a neural network or other machine-learning model. In response, the predictive model processes the input to generate an estimated heart disease predictive characteristic of the mammal. The system outputs the estimated heart disease prediction of the mammal for presentation to a user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: MAYO FOUNDATION FOR MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
    Inventors: Itzhak Zachi Attia, Paul A. Friedman, Francisco Lopez-Jimenez, Suraj Kapa
  • Patent number: 12198521
    Abstract: According to various embodiments of the present invention, an individual's dangerous state detection-based situation information acquisition device may include: a sensor unit configured to detect an individual's state; a control unit configured to determine that the individual's state is a dangerous state when the rate of change of the maximum value of a sensor data stream detected by the sensor unit satisfies Equation 1 below; a camera configured to photograph the surroundings of the situation information acquisition device from the time when it is determined that the individual's state is a dangerous state; and a voice recorder configured to record sounds generated in the surroundings. Other embodiments may also be possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Inventor: Woomin Baik
  • Patent number: 12193795
    Abstract: An ambient monitoring device includes a housing, contactless sensors coupled to the housing, and a processing device disposed in the housing. The processing device is coupled to the contactless sensors. The processing device is to receive, from one or more contactless sensors of the plurality of contactless sensors, historical sensor data. The processing device is further to determine baseline vital signs based on the historical sensor data. The processing device is further to receive, from the one or more contactless sensors, current sensor data associated with a user that is within a threshold distance of the ambient monitoring device without contacting the ambient monitoring device. The processing device is further to determine, based on the current sensor data, current vital signs of the user. Responsive to determining the current vital signs do not meet the baseline vital signs, the processing device is to provide an alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: Norbert Health, Inc.
    Inventors: Alexandre G. Winter, Jonathan Platkiewicz
  • Patent number: 12191029
    Abstract: A method is provided. The method includes identifying whether an amount of change in the pressure detected through an atmospheric pressure sensor is greater than or equal to a specified first threshold, in response to the amount of change in the pressure being greater than or equal to the first threshold, waking up a biometric sensor module including a plurality of electrodes in which some of the plurality of electrodes are disposed to come into contact with a body part of a user when the electronic device is worn, and others thereof are disposed to not come into contact with a body part of the user when the electronic device is worn, and identifying whether an interrupt signal, indicating that a state in which the plurality of electrodes are electrically connected is maintained for a specified first time or more, is received from the biometric sensor module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
    Inventors: Kihoon Kang, Taekeun Kim, Kihong Min, Sunghun Shin, Kihun Eom, Kyeongmun Jo
  • Patent number: 12186554
    Abstract: A method of reducing interference with an electrical monitoring device includes sensing an interference signal at a first location in a body resulting from reception of a second signal at a second location in the body, and delivering an electrical counter signal to the patient that destructively interferes with the interference signal to prevent interference with the electrical monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: Sage Products, LLC
    Inventors: Brian J. Fahey, Timothy Machold, Zachary J. Malchano, Curtis Tom
  • Patent number: 12189846
    Abstract: A wearable device comprising a first array of non-optical sensing nodes is disclosed. The first array comprises a plurality of nodes. The plurality of nodes are operable to sense vasodilation of an artery in proximity to the first array. Systems and methods for determining a difference between a first position and a first reference position of the first array relative to a first artery are disclosed. First signal information may be received from the wearable device. The first signal information may represent first signal variation data sensed by each node of the first array. A first position of the first array relative to a first artery may be determined based on a first signal variation pattern in the first signal information. A difference between the first position and a first reference position of the first array relative to the first artery may then be determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: HUAWEI TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD.
    Inventors: David Holman, Roeland Petrus Hubertus Vertegaal
  • Patent number: 12172577
    Abstract: A vehicle system that includes a vehicle seat, wherein the vehicle seat includes a seat-back portion, a seat-bottom portion, a head rest portion, wherein the vehicle seat includes one or more acoustic sensors configured to retrieve an acoustic signal associated with a passenger seat, and a processor in communication with at least the one or more acoustic sensors, wherein the processor is programmed to identify an anomaly associated with the passenger utilizing the acoustic signal, wherein the anomaly is identified via pre-processing the acoustic signal and extracting one or more features associated with the acoustic signal in response to the pre-preprocessing and utilizing a classifier to classify one or more features associated with the acoustic signal as either a normal condition or the anomaly, and output a notification associated with the anomaly in response to identifying the anomaly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Sirajum Munir, Samarjit Das
  • Patent number: 12171530
    Abstract: A pulse transit time measuring apparatus according to one aspect includes a belt unit configured to be wrapped around a measurement site of a user, an electrocardiogram acquisition unit including electrodes provided at the belt unit and configured to acquire an electrocardiogram of the user by using the electrodes, a pulse wave signal acquisition unit including a pulse wave sensor provided at the belt unit, and configured to acquire a pulse wave signal representing a pulse wave of the user by using the pulse wave sensor, and a pulse transit time calculation unit configured to calculate a pulse transit time based on a time difference between a waveform characteristic point of the electrocardiogram and a waveform characteristic point of the pulse wave signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2024
    Assignees: OMRON HEALTHCARE CO., LTD., OMRON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yasuhiro Kawabata, Kenji Fujii, Naomi Matsumura, Reiji Fujita, Akito Ito