Detecting Heartbeat Electric Signal Patents (Class 600/509)
  • Patent number: 11822457
    Abstract: Disclosed are systems, methods, and articles for determining compatibility of a mobile application and operating system on a mobile device. In some aspects, a method includes receiving one or more data values from a mobile device having a mobile medical software application installed thereon, the data value(s) characterizing a version of the software application, a version of an operating system installed on the mobile device, and one or more attributes of the mobile device; determining whether the mobile medical software application is compatible with the operating system by at least comparing the received data value(s) to one or more test values in a configuration file; and sending a message to the mobile device based on the determining, the message causing the software application to operate in one or more of a normal mode, a safe mode, and a non-operational mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Dexcom, Inc.
    Inventors: Issa Sami Salameh, Douglas William Burnette, Tifo Vu Hoang, Steven David King, Stephen M. Madigan, Michael Robert Mensinger, Andrew Attila Pal, Michael Ranen Tyler
  • Patent number: 11819680
    Abstract: A wearable cardiac monitoring and treatment device includes a garment, a plurality of ECG electrodes, a plurality of therapy electrodes, a therapy delivery circuit, and one or more sensors configured to monitor one or more physiological signals of the patient. The device also includes a controller configured to detect an arrhythmia condition, cause the therapy delivery circuit to deliver one or more therapeutic pulses to the patient on detecting the arrhythmia condition, detect that the garment is no longer worn about the torso of the patient prior to expiration of at least a prescribed duration of wear by detecting a loss of signal for at least a threshold period of time from one or more of the plurality of ECG sensing electrodes and/or one or more of the one or more sensors, and issue a notification that the garment is no longer worn about the torso of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Gary A Freeman, James A Patterson, III, Christopher L Swenglish, Jason T Whiting
  • Patent number: 11813062
    Abstract: A method for electrophysiological assessment, including acquiring electrical signals from locations of a region of ablated tissue in a heart chamber, and deriving from the signals respective annotations, which are indicative of times within a heart cycle at which a conduction wave traversed the locations. The method includes identifying a first location, at a first distance from the region, where the electrical signals include a double-potential signal, having first and second annotations at different times within the heart cycle, and identifying, in proximity to the first location, a second location, at a second distance from the region, greater than the first distance, where the electrical signals have a third annotation. The method further includes selecting one of the first and second annotations that is closest to the third annotation as a valid annotation for the first location, and displaying the valid annotation on an electroanatomical map of the heart.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Assaf Govari, Vadim Gliner
  • Patent number: 11806155
    Abstract: Electrocardiogram (ECG) data is compressible at high compression ratios using suitable compressive sensing techniques. Methods of detecting QRS complexes in an ECG signal may comprise receiving compressively-sensed measurements of an ECG signal; constructing an estimate of the ECG signal from the received compressively-sensed measurements, and detecting QRS complexes in the estimate of the ECG signal. QRS complexes may be detected by computing the first-order difference of the estimate of the ECG signal and processing the first-order difference of the estimate of the ECG signal to locate one or more significant natural blocks, each indicating a QRS complex in the ECG signal. QRS complexes may also be detected by using a conventional QRS detection algorithm on the estimate of the ECG signal. Also disclosed are related systems for detecting QRS complexes and for compressively sensing ECG signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Inventors: Sridhar (sri) Krishnan, Jeevan Kumar Pant
  • Patent number: 11806153
    Abstract: A portable electrocardiograph includes: a recording section configured to record data corresponding to electrocardiogram of a subject; a detecting section configured to detect approach of a portable device having a function to perform short-range wireless communication; and a control section configured to start recording of the data in the recording section in a case where it is satisfied a start condition including a fact that the approach of the device is detected by the detecting section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: NIHON KOHDEN CORPORATION
    Inventors: Satoshi Saitoh, Jun Motogi
  • Patent number: 11803613
    Abstract: An information processing device includes processing circuitry configured to classify a plurality of partial waveform patterns that characterize a plurality of time series data into a plurality of classes based on the plurality of time series data classified into the plurality of classes, update shapes of the partial waveform patterns by fitting the partial waveform patterns to the time series data of the corresponding class, and reclassify the plurality of time series data into the plurality of classes based on the updated partial waveform patterns and difficulty levels that represent degrees of difficulty of classification and interpretation of the time series data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Akihiro Yamaguchi, Shigeru Maya, Ken Ueno
  • Patent number: 11801386
    Abstract: A medical device processor is configured to receive a first cardiac electrical signal sensed from a first sensing electrode vector, receive a second cardiac electrical signal sensed from a second sensing electrode vector different than the first sensing electrode vector, and construct a third cardiac electrical signal from the first cardiac electrical signal and the second cardiac electrical signal. In some examples, the system determines sensed cardiac events according to at least one setting of a cardiac event sensing threshold control parameter from at least the third cardiac electrical signal and may determine at least one acceptable setting of a sensing control parameter based on the determined sensed cardiac events. The processor may generate an output representative of the determined sensed cardiac events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Xusheng Zhang, Yuanzhen Liu
  • Patent number: 11800984
    Abstract: There is provided a system for measuring a physiological parameter of a person indicative of physiological pathology, comprising: a plurality of remote non-contact sensors, each of a different type of sensing modality, at least one hardware processor executing a code for: simultaneously receiving over a time interval, from each of the plurality of remote non-contact sensors monitoring a person, a respective dataset, extracting, from each respective dataset, a respective sub-physiological parameter of a plurality of sub-physiological parameters, analyzing a combination of the plurality of sub-physiological parameters, and computing a physiological parameter indicative of physiological pathology according to the analysis, wherein an accuracy of the physiological parameter computed from the combination is higher than an accuracy of the physiological parameter independently computed using any one of the plurality of sub-physiological parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: NEC Corporation Of America
    Inventors: Tsvi Lev, Yaacov Hoch
  • Patent number: 11800259
    Abstract: A biological monitoring device includes a sensor included in a sensor device, performing a detection process of detecting a medical condition of a patient, and performing a process of generating first detection data indicating a result of the detection process, a generation unit realized by the sensor device, indicating contents related to the detection process, and performing a process of generating second detection data having a smaller data volume than the first detection data, on the basis of the first detection data, and a communication unit realized by the sensor device, and performing a process of transmitting the second detection data to a terminal associated with the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignees: Seiko Group Corporation, Seiko Science Energy Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yoshifumi Yoshida, Ryosuke Isogai, Kotaro Maki
  • Patent number: 11798665
    Abstract: Certain embodiments are directed to a method, system, or apparatus, such as a medical imaging device. The method can include retrieving data from a worksheet or form repository server. The data can include one or more fields of a customized worksheet or form. The one or more fields can be based on at least one of an identification of a user, a location of the medical imaging device, or a medical department using the medical imaging device. The method can also include recreating the customized worksheet or form at the medical imaging device based on the received data, and displaying the recreated customized worksheet or form on a graphical user interface connected to the medical imaging device. In addition, the method can include producing a medical image via the medical imaging device, and automatically forwarding the customized worksheet or form and the medical image to a billable workflow or an educational workflow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: FUJIFILM SonoSite, Inc.
    Inventors: Damian Torres, Christopher Bartholomew, Tod Kahler, Sun-Kai Lin, David Knapp, John D Higinbotham
  • Patent number: 11779253
    Abstract: In a biopotential-physiological-phenomena sensing system, an impedance measurement circuit for measuring the impedance of a channel electrode that is applied to a subject's body for sensing a physiological phenomenon includes: an amplifier, a DC-biased power supply with an AC component and a conductive element. The amplifier has a signal input coupled to a channel electrode that is applied to a subject's body and a signal output for providing an output voltage that is representative of a voltage provided at the signal input in accordance with an amplification of the amplifier. The conductive element is coupled between the power supply and the signal input of the amplifier. The AC component of the DC-biased power supply causes a known test current to flow through the channel electrode thereby causing a voltage drop proportional to the impedance of the channel electrode at the input of the amplifier. The impedance of the channel electrode is measured in accordance with the amplifier's output voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: COGNIONICS, INC.
    Inventor: Yu Mike Chi
  • Patent number: 11783349
    Abstract: A compliance management system generates an enterprise data schema based on a compliance regulation. The system monitors interactions over a network with resources subject to the compliance regulation to generate interaction data sets. The system processes the interaction data sets against the enterprise data schema to categorize at least some of the interactions to trigger events associated with the categories, generate corresponding to the events, and track a compliance metric for each of the tasks generated. The system updates the enterprise data schema based on the compliance metric and the interaction data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: STRATOKEY PTY LTD.
    Inventors: Anthony Scotney, Sabyasachi Routray
  • Patent number: 11779250
    Abstract: A magnetocardiography (MCG) system includes a passively shielded enclosure having walls defining the passively shielded enclosure, each of the walls including passive magnetic shielding material to reduce an ambient background magnetic field within the passively shielded enclosure; an MCG measurement device including optically pumped magnetometers (OPMs); and active shield coils within the passively shielded enclosure and stationary relative to the passively shielded enclosure and the MCG measurement device, wherein the active shield coils are configured to further reduce the ambient background magnetic field within a user area of the passively shielded enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: HI LLC
    Inventors: Jamu Alford, Ethan Pratt, Micah Ledbetter, Ricardo Jiménez-Martínez
  • Patent number: 11779252
    Abstract: A catheter is disclosed comprising: a connector including a plurality of first contacts and one or more second contacts; a shaft including a plurality of electrodes, each electrode being coupled to a different one of the plurality of first contacts; a memory coupled to at least one of the second contacts, wherein the memory is configured to: store a pinout map identifying an order in which the plurality of electrodes is coupled to the plurality of first contacts; and provide the pinout map to an external device via one or more of the second contacts after the connector is coupled to the external device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: BIOSENSE WEBSTER (ISRAEL) LTD.
    Inventors: Eden Kidishman, Tamir Yellin, Eliyahu Ravuna, Itamar Bustan, Assaf Govari, Dean Ponzi
  • Patent number: 11779766
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a medical stimulation system that includes a plurality of implantable channels each operable to obtain a voltage signal from a designated area of a body tissue. The medical stimulation system includes an impedance measurement device. The impedance measurement device includes a plurality of attenuators each coupled to a respective one of the channels. The attenuators are each operable to attenuate an amplitude of the voltage signal received from its respectively-coupled channel. The impedance measurement device includes a multiplexing component that receives the amplitude-attenuated voltage signals from each of the attenuators. The multiplexing component selectively outputs two of the amplitude-attenuated voltage signals. The impedance measurement device includes a differential amplifier that receives the two amplitude-attenuated voltage signals outputted from the multiplexing component as a differential input signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2023
    Assignee: CIRTEC MEDICAL CORP.
    Inventors: Stephen C. Trier, Jeff A. Weisgarber
  • Patent number: 11766214
    Abstract: The invention concerns wearable electronic devices, systems and methods for sports performance monitoring. In one embodiment, the invention provides a device comprising a heartbeat sensor for providing a heartbeat signal, a motion sensor for providing a motion signal and processing means adapted to calculate at least one performance parameter depicting said sports performance and/or the person using temporal characteristics of periodic features of the heartbeat signal compared with temporal characteristics of periodic features in the motion signal. The invention allows for utilization of an existing relation between cadence and heart rate for characterizing the performance or the person in a novel way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: Suunto Oy
    Inventors: Mikko Martikka, Heikki Nieminen, Kimmo Pernu, Olli-Pekka Ojanen, Erik Lindman
  • Patent number: 11763449
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for monitoring progression of a cardiac disease in a patient by providing cardio-vibrational image matrixes and/or ECG image matrices generated using sensor data supplied by a medical device. In some examples, cardio-vibrational image matrices and/or ECG image matrices are output as image files. In some implementations, systems and methods are provided for using such cardio-vibrational image matrices and/or an ECG image matrices, and/or other clinical information, using machine learning classifiers, to assess cardiac risk in a patient. In some implementations, systems and methods are provided for using cardio-vibrational image matrixes and/or ECG image matrices, and/or other clinical information for real-time analysis of cardiac risk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Tsuyoshi Masuda, Kent Volosin
  • Patent number: 11759254
    Abstract: Systems and methods for forming a lesion on an endocardial tissue of a patient's heart involve placing an ablation assembly inside of the heart and adjacent to the endocardial tissue, and placing a guiding assembly outside of the heart. An ablation assembly includes an ablation element and a first attraction element, and a guiding assembly includes a second attraction element. First and second attraction elements can be attracted via magnetism. Techniques involve forming an ablation on the cardiac tissue of a patient's heart with an ablation element of the ablation assembly. Optionally, techniques may include moving the second attraction element of the guiding assembly relative to the patient's heart, so as to effect a corresponding movement of the ablation element of the ablation assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AtriCure, Inc.
    Inventors: Tamer Ibrahim, David K. Swanson
  • Patent number: 11759626
    Abstract: A therapy electrode system comprises a garment configured to be worn about a torso of a patient, a therapy electrode disposed in the garment and configured to deliver one or more electrical shocks to a body of the patient, a replaceable gel cartridge disposed on the therapy electrode and configured to release a conductive gel onto the patient's skin at an interface between the therapy electrode and the patient's skin prior to the delivery of the one or more electrical shocks to the body of the patient at the interface between the therapy electrode and the patient's skin, and a fluid pump in fluid communication with the replaceable gel cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: ZOLL MEDICAL CORPORATION
    Inventors: Thomas E. Kaib, Gary A. Freeman, Phillip Hier Amsler
  • Patent number: 11759116
    Abstract: In some examples, a system includes processing circuitry configured to generate a laser speckle contrast signal based on a received signal indicative of detected light, wherein the detected light is scatted by tissue from a coherent light source. The processing circuitry may also determine, from the laser speckle contrast signal, a flow value and determine, from the laser speckle contrast signal, a waveform metric. Based on the flow value and the waveform metric, the processing circuitry may determine a blood flow metric for the tissue and output a representation of the blood flow metric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Covidien AG
    Inventors: Sean Michael White, Bruce Yee Yang, Tyler Bywaters Rice
  • Patent number: 11759139
    Abstract: A medical device is utilized to monitor physiological parameters of a patient and capture segments of the monitored physiological parameters. The medical device includes circuitry configured to monitor one or more physiological parameters associated with the patient and an analysis module that includes a buffer and a processor. The buffer stores monitored physiological parameters and the processor analyzes the monitored physiological parameters and triggers capture of segments from the buffer in response to a triggering criteria being satisfied. The analysis module selects a pre-trigger duration based at least in part on the triggering criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic Monitoring, Inc.
    Inventors: Rodolphe Katra, Scott Williams, Niranjan Chakravarthy
  • Patent number: 11751813
    Abstract: A stroke detection system operative to detect strokes suffered by mobile communication device users, the system including a hardware processor operative in conjunction with a mobile communication device having at least one built-in sensor. The hardware processor is configured to, repeatedly and without being activated by the device's user, compare data derived from the at least one sensor to at least one baseline value for at least one indicator of user well-being, stored in memory accessible to the processor and/or make a stroke risk level evaluation; and/or perform at least one action if and only if the stroke risk level is over a threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: CELLOSCOPE LTD.
    Inventors: Yuval Naveh, Shahar Davidson, Tomer Shussman
  • Patent number: 11751795
    Abstract: Provided are a disease prediction apparatus and a disease prediction method using the same, which may easily learn a biosignal, may easily make a diagnosis, and may perform analysis in real time, in order to determine a disease using a biosignal via deep learning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: KOREA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION
    Inventors: Seonho Kim, Hong-Woo Chun, Jungjoon Kim, Byoung-Youl Coh
  • Patent number: 11756688
    Abstract: A method for determining cardiology disease risk from electrocardiogram trace data and clinical data includes receiving electrocardiogram trace data associated with a patient, receiving the patient's clinical data, providing both sets of data to a trained machine learning composite model that is trained to evaluate the data with respect to each disease of a set of cardiology diseases including three or more of cardiac amyloidosis, aortic stenosis, aortic regurgitation, mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, tricuspid regurgitation, abnormal reduced ejection fraction, or abnormal interventricular septal thickness, generating, by the model and based on the evaluation, a composite risk score reflecting a likelihood of the patient being diagnosed with one or more of the cardiology diseases within a predetermined period of time from when the electrocardiogram trace data was generated, and outputting the composite risk score to at least one of a memory or a display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Tempus Labs, Inc., Geisinger Clinic
    Inventors: Alvaro E. Ulloa-Cerna, Noah Zimmerman, Greg Lee, Christopher M. Haggerty, Brandon K. Fornwalt, Ruijun Chen, John Pfeifer, Christopher Good
  • Patent number: 11751809
    Abstract: A bra for measuring a physiological signal from a body of a user wearing the bra comprises first and second front portions, or bra cups portions. The bra also comprises first and second side wings, wherein the first side wing is coupled with the first front portion and the second side wing is coupled with the second front portion. In addition the bra comprises a measuring device and/or at least two electrodes, where the measuring device or at least one electrode is arranged to a module, and the module forms at least a basis of the first side wing of the bra or even the first side wing of the bra as its entirety.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignee: Clothing Plus MBU Oy
    Inventors: Atte Joutsen, Kirsi Vanhatalo
  • Patent number: 11747239
    Abstract: An analytical toilet comprising a bowl for receiving excreta from a user; a flush mechanism for cleaning the bowl after use; at least one analytical test device wherein a sample of excreta is analyzed; a manifold comprising conduits and valves for distributing one or more fluids to and from the at least one receptacle; and a digital control device controlling the valves to distribute the sample to the analytical test device for analysis; and distribute fluid to remove the sample from the analytical test device after analysis and to clean the analytical test device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Hall Labs LLC
    Inventors: David R. Hall, David Crismon, Joshua Larsen, Jared Reynolds, Kevin Jeffrey Campbell
  • Patent number: 11744505
    Abstract: According to an embodiment, a method for diagnosing traumatic brain injury (TBI) in a subject may include repeatedly measuring heart rate variability (HRV) in the subject and a plurality of HRV altering variables; calculating an HRV fingerprint based on the subject's measured HRV and the measured plurality of HRV altering variables; generating a predicted HRV of the subject based on the HRV fingerprint; and diagnosing a TBI in the subject when the measured HRV of the subject deviates from the predicted HRV of the subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventor: Tristan Alan Colaizzi
  • Patent number: 11748616
    Abstract: A method includes collecting a plurality of bipolar electrograms and respective unipolar electrograms of patients, the electrograms including annotations in which one or more human reviewers have identified and marked a window-of-interest and one or more activation times inside the window-of-interest. A ground truth data set is generated from the electrograms, for training at least one electrogram-preprocessing step of a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm. The ML algorithm is applied to the electrograms, to at least train the at least one electrogram-preprocessing step, so as to detect an occurrence of an activation in a given bipolar electrogram within the window-of-interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Biosense Webster (Israel) Ltd.
    Inventors: Eliyahu Ravuna, Natan Sharon Katz, Andrey Evgenyevich Kiryasov, Elena Igorevna Kuzhnareva, Aleksey Vladimirovich Shovkun
  • Patent number: 11744513
    Abstract: A monitoring apparatus is provided. A strip includes a first end section, a second end section opposite the first end section, and a midsection between the first end section and the second end section, and further includes a first surface and a second surface. An adhesive covers a portion of the first surface of the strip. Only two electrocardiographic electrodes are included. A flexible circuit is mounted to the second surface of the strip. An accelerometer, a respiratory sensor, and a wireless transceiver are provided on the second surface of the strip. A processor is positioned over a portion of the flexible circuit and coupled to the electrodes and the wireless transceiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: BARDY DIAGNOSTICS, INC.
    Inventors: Gust H. Bardy, Jon Mikalson Bishay, Jason Felix
  • Patent number: 11737698
    Abstract: An electrophysiology system including signal channels each of which processes an electrophysiological signal along a signal path extending from an input port that receives the analog electrophysiological signal, via an adjustable gain element that amplifies the electrophysiological signal, and via an ADC element that converts the analog signal into a corresponding digital signal, to an output port. The system further includes a monitoring element that generates a monitoring signal representative of a DC component of the electrophysiological signal and a gain control element that generates a control signal responsive to the monitoring signal. The control signal controls the gain setting of the gain element to cause a decrease in gain, if an increase in the magnitude of the DC component is determined; and/or an increase in gain, if a decrease in the magnitude of the DC component is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CathVision ApS
    Inventors: Sigge Nejst Larsen, Victor Shadbolt, David P. MacAdam, Harold Wodlinger
  • Patent number: 11742085
    Abstract: A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured: to receive an input of first transition data indicating a transition up to the present time of a biological index value exhibiting a condition of a patient and second transition data indicating a transition up to the present time of a treatment means implemented on the patient; to set a goal value of the biological index value as a treatment index value; and to predict a time at which the biological index value of the patient will reach the treatment index value, on the basis of such first transition data and second transition data of one or more past patients different from the patient that have characteristics similar to characteristics of the first transition data and the second transition data of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CANON MEDICAL SYSTEMS CORPORATION
    Inventor: Chihiro Hattori
  • Patent number: 11737697
    Abstract: To improve convenience of a biopotential detector. A support includes a lower surface and an upper surface. A first detection electrode is exposed on the lower surface. A first signal terminal is exposed on the upper surface and is electrically connected to the first detection electrode. A secondary battery and a charging circuit are supported in the support. A positive electrode terminal is exposed on the upper surface and is electrically connected to the secondary battery. A gel member covering the first detection electrode is attachable/detachable to/from the lower surface. A signal processing device having a connecting part is attachable/detachable to/from the upper surface. When the signal processing device is attached to the upper surface, the first signal terminal and the positive electrode terminal are connected to the connecting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Nihon Kohden Corporation
    Inventors: Fumiyuki Matsumura, Norihito Konno, Minori Hosoi, Shigehiro Nishiwaki
  • Patent number: 11733253
    Abstract: A method to optimize analyzer use in a laboratory having a plurality of analyzers based on laboratory workload is presented. The method comprises determining current laboratory workload, calculating workload capability of the plurality of analyzers minus one analyzer if the current laboratory workload is below a threshold criteria and if there are two or more analyzers in the plurality of analyzers, masking one of the plurality of analyzers if the current workload is met by the plurality of analyzers minus one analyzer, proceeding with current workload, and repeating the above steps until the current laboratory workload has been completed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.
    Inventor: Marco Maetzler
  • Patent number: 11734720
    Abstract: The present technology relates to an information processing system, a recording medium, and an information processing method which are capable of transmitting information to persons who are considered to be worthy of the transmission. An information processing system according to an aspect of the present technology stores position information indicating a position of a device of a user and date information at which position measurement is performed in correlation with each other, forms a community including users who leave a movement trajectory satisfying a predetermined condition at the periphery of a specific location on the basis of a user's movement history indicated by the stored information, and distributes a message input through a specific interface to users who pertain to the community. The present technology is applicable to a device such as an electronic signboard that is installed at a specific location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yasuhide Hosoda
  • Patent number: 11730417
    Abstract: Provided is a method of detecting the R peak of an electrocardiogram (ECG) signal using an adaptive median filter. The method includes allowing an ECG signal (hereinafter, referred to as a first ECG signal) received from an ECG signal measuring apparatus having a predetermined sampling rate to pass through an adaptive median filter, calculating a difference value between the first ECG signal and a signal (hereinafter, referred to as a second ECG signal) passing through the adaptive median filter, extracting R peak candidate groups by applying a maximum filtering size and an adaptive threshold applicable in the adaptive median filter to the calculated difference value between the first and second ECG signals, and detecting an R peak candidate group having a maximum value among the R peak candidate groups as an R peak.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Tae Wuk Bae, Kee Koo Kwon, Kyu Hyung Kim
  • Patent number: 11733335
    Abstract: A method is proposed for recording diagnostic measurement data of a head of an examination object in head imaging via a magnetic resonance device. The method comprises performing an overview scan of the head of the examination object, wherein overview measurement data is acquired in the overview scan and performing various diagnostic scans of the head of the examination object based on the acquired overview measurement data, wherein diagnostic measurement data is acquired in the various diagnostic scans.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignees: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, The General Hospital Corporation
    Inventors: Keith Aaron Heberlein, Thomas Witzel
  • Patent number: 11723621
    Abstract: A monitoring system includes a wearable patch device configured to be secured to a body of a patient, the wearable patch device comprising a patch body, a first discrete transducer associated with a first position of the patch body, a second discrete transducer associated with a second portion of the patch body, and a wireless transmitter, and electronics including one or more processors and one or more memory devices and configured to receive signals based on transducer readings of the first and second discrete transducers and determine an amount of blood flow through one or more valves of a heart of the patient based on the signals.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES CORPORATION
    Inventor: Yaron Keidar
  • Patent number: 11728036
    Abstract: In an embodiment of this invention, in a learning phase, a state estimation device acquires activity state data and biometric data at that time from user terminals of a plurality of users, generates a regression formula representing the relationship between the biometric data and the activity state data using a regression analysis method on the basis of these pieces of measurement data, and calculates a difference between the coefficients of the regression formula of all users and each user to generate a coefficient correction regression formula representing a relationship between the difference of the coefficient and an average value of the biometric data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Akihiro Chiba, Naoki Asanoma, Kazuhiro Yoshida
  • Patent number: 11717208
    Abstract: Techniques for triggering the storage or transmission of cardiac electrogram (EGM) signals associated with a premature ventricular contractions (PVC) include sensing a cardiac EGM signal of a patient via a plurality of electrodes, detecting a premature ventricular contraction (PVC) within the cardiac EGM signal, determining whether PVC storage criteria is met, in response to a determination that the PVC storage criteria is met, storing a portion of the cardiac EGM signal associated with the PVC, and in response to a determination that the PVC storage criteria is not met, eschewing storing the portion of the cardiac EGM signal associated with the PVC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: John E. Burnes, Shantanu Sarkar, Gautham Rajagopal
  • Patent number: 11707629
    Abstract: A system for synchronizing application of treatment signals with a cardiac rhythm is provided. The system includes a memory that receives and stores a synchronization signal indicating that a predetermined phase such as R-wave of a cardiac rhythm of a patient has started. A synchronization module analyzes whether the stored synchronization signal is erroneous and if so, prevents a medical treatment device from applying a treatment energy signal such as an IRE pulse to a patient to take into account an irregular heart beat and noise in the synchronization signal in order to maximize safety of the patient.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: AngioDynamics, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Callas, James Lovewell, Bradley C. Stribling, Dave Warden
  • Patent number: 11707218
    Abstract: An apparatus for generating ECG recordings and a method for using the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes a handheld device having four electrodes on an outer surface thereof, the handheld device having an extended configuration and a storage configuration. The apparatus also includes a controller configured to measure signals between the electrodes to provide signals that are used to generate an ECG recording selected from the group consisting of standard lead traces and precordial traces. When the handheld device is in the extended configuration and the first and second electrodes contact a first hand of a patient such that the first and second electrodes contact different locations on the first hand, the third electrode is in contact with a location on the patient's other hand and the fourth electrode contacts a point on the patient's body that depends on the particular trace being measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: Ticker Medical Ltd
    Inventors: David Amitai, Assaf Amitai
  • Patent number: 11701044
    Abstract: An electrocardiography patch is provided. A backing includes an elongated strip with a midsection connecting two rounded ends. The midsection tapers in from each end and is narrower than each of the two ends. An electrode is positioned on each end of the backing on a contact surface to capture electrocardiographic signals. A circuit trace electrically is coupled to each of the electrodes in the pair. A battery is provided on an outer surface of the backing opposite the contact surface. Memory is provided on the outer surface of the backing to store data regarding the electrocardiographic signals. A processor is powered by the battery to write the data into the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Bardy Diagnostics, Inc.
    Inventors: Jon Mikalson Bishay, Gust H. Bardy, Jason Felix
  • Patent number: 11696681
    Abstract: An implantable medical device is disclosed. A housing includes a hollow body forming a first electrode on an outer surface with end caps affixed to opposite ends, one end cap forming a second electrode. A microcontroller circuit is provided and includes a microcontroller operable under program instructions stored within a non-volatile memory device. An analog front end is interfaced to the electrodes to sense electrocardiographic signals. A transceiver circuit is operable to wirelessly communicate with an external data device. The program instructions define instructions to continuously sample the electrocardiographic signals into the non-volatile memory device and to offload the non-volatile memory device to the external data device. A receiving coil and a charging circuit are operable to charge an onboard power source for the microcontroller circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Bardy Diagnostics Inc.
    Inventors: Jason Felix, Joshua Djon Green, Corey B. Williamson, Gust H. Bardy
  • Patent number: 11696708
    Abstract: A probe device includes an optical device including at least one of a photodetector or a first light source. A cover structure is included and is arranged in front of the optical device. The cover structure includes an electrode which contacts, in use, a body tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: STMicroelectronics S.r.l.
    Inventors: Vincenzo Vinciguerra, Piero Fallica, Mario Francesco Romeo
  • Patent number: 11690971
    Abstract: Provided is an exacerbation prediction device equipped with a respiration sensing means of continuously sensing respiration data of a patient, a calculation means of calculating stable respiration data that are respiration data during a condition in which a respiratory rate is lowered and stable for a certain period of time from the sensed continuous respiration data of the patient, and a prediction means of predicting occurrence of an acute exacerbation in the patient in accordance with the stable respiration data calculated during a certain period of time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Teijin Pharma Limited
    Inventors: Takayoshi Sato, Sadayoshi Matsumoto
  • Patent number: 11694797
    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: March 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Neil S. Davey, Sonya Davey, Samir Devalaraja, Sanjay Kunchakarra
  • Patent number: 11692910
    Abstract: An abnormality diagnostic device includes a diagnoser configured to diagnose a type of abnormality that occurs in an abnormality diagnostic target on the basis of differences between abnormality simulation results for each type of abnormalities obtained by simulating a plurality of types of abnormalities in the abnormality diagnostic target and a plurality of time-series observation results obtained by observing the abnormality diagnostic target in time series using a plurality of detectors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Inventors: Kaname Kawatsu, Seiji Tsutsumi, Miki Hirabayashi
  • Patent number: 11684425
    Abstract: An X-ray fluoroscopic imaging apparatus which can accurately perform enhancement processing of a device and can also reduce a burden on an operator is provided. An exclusion region E is set so as to surround an obstacle on an X-ray image generated by an image generation unit. A marker extraction unit extracts a marker from a region except for an exclusion region in the X-ray image. An integration unit superimposes a predetermined number of X-ray images on the basis of the position of the marker to generate an integrated image. In this case, detecting obstacle as a marker can be avoided, so the integrated image becomes an image with a stent suitably highlighted. Even in cases where it is difficult to set the region-of-interest so that an obstacle falls out of the range, such as a case in which an obstacle overlaps or is in proximity to a stent, it is easy to set the exclusion region so that the marker is out of range and the obstacle falls within the range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Shimadzu Corporation
    Inventor: Shota Sato
  • Patent number: 11684280
    Abstract: A bow shaped pulse meter for new-born patients, comprising a control unit arranged in a central portion of the pulse meter, a first arm with an integrated first electrode and a second arm with an integrated second electrode extending respectively in a bow from opposite sides of the central portion, the integrated electrodes are configured to be in contact with a patient body (not shown) when in use, the electrodes being further electrically connected to the control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: LAERDAL MEDICAL AS
    Inventors: Øystein Gomo, Helge Myklebust, Joar Eilevstjønn
  • Patent number: 11684784
    Abstract: An intracardiac ventricular pacemaker is configured to operate in in a selected one of an atrial-tracking ventricular pacing mode and a non-atrial tracking ventricular pacing mode. A control circuit of the pacemaker determines at least one motion signal metric from the motion signal, compares the at least one motion signal metric to pacing mode switching criteria, and, responsive to the pacing mode switching criteria being satisfied, switches from the selected one of the non-atrial tracking pacing mode and the atrial tracking pacing mode to the other one of the non-atrial tracking pacing mode and the atrial tracking pacing mode for controlling ventricular pacing pulses delivered by the pacemaker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: Medtronic, Inc.
    Inventors: Todd J. Sheldon, Yong K. Cho, Wade M. Demmer, Mark K. Erickson, Vincent E. Splett