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Sensor-based Shape Identification
23 Dec 20
A controller for determining shape of an interventional device includes a memory that stores instructions, and a processor that executes the instructions.
ALVIN CHEN, RAMON QUIDO ERKAMP, SHYAM BHARAT, KUNAL VAIDYA, ALYSSA TORJESEN, MOLLY LARA FLEXMAN, AMEET KUMAR JAIN
Filed: 17 Feb 19
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Micromanipulator-controlled Local View with Stationary Overall Views
23 Dec 20
A tracking, and point-of-view-based imaging, device is configured for deriving a position of, and a direction from, a location at a distal tip of an elongated instrument, for performing coordinate system transformation in accordance with the position and direction, and for forming, from the location and based on a result of the transformation, a local view that moves with the tip.
PETER WAKSMAN
Filed: 2 Sep 20
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Imaging Assembly for Intravascular Imaging Device and Associated Devices, Systems, and Methods
23 Dec 20
An intravascular imaging device is provided.
Maritess Minas, Princeton Saroha, Jeremy Stigall, David Kenneth Wrolstad
Filed: 22 Mar 17
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Providing a Three Dimensional Ultrasound Image
23 Dec 20
A method and processing system for providing a three-dimensional, 3D, ultrasound image along with an additional ultrasound acquisition.
Laurence ROUET, Cecile DUFOUR, Robert Randall ENTREKIN, Gary Cheng-How NG
Filed: 24 Feb 19
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Tracking System and Marker Device to Be Tracked by the Tracking System
23 Dec 20
A tracking system for tracking a marker device for being attached to a medical device is provided, whereby the marker device includes a sensing unit comprising a magnetic object which may be excited by an external magnetic or electromagnetic excitation field into a mechanical oscillation of the magnetic object, and the tracking system comprises a field generator for generating a predetermined magnetic or electromagnetic excitation field for inducing mechanical oscillations of the magnetic object, a transducer for transducing a magnetic or electromagnetic field generated by the induced mechanical oscillations of the magnetic object into one or more electrical response signals, and a position determination unit for determining the position of the marker device on the basis of the one or more electrical response signals.
BERNHARD GLEICH, Juergen Erwin Rahmer, Michael Grass
Filed: 9 Dec 19
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Interventional Device with Piezoelectric Transducer
23 Dec 20
An interventional device (110) includes an elongate shaft and a transducer strip (112).
WILLEM-JAN AREND DE WIJS, CORNELIS GERARDUS VISSER, HENDRIK ROELOF STAPERT, JOHANNES WILHELMUS WEEKAMP, GERARDUS FRANCISCUS CORNELIS MARIA LIJTEN, ERIC FRANCISCUS JOHANNES CLAESSENS
Filed: 2 Feb 19
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Tracking System and Marker Device to Be Tracked by the Tracking System
23 Dec 20
The invention relates to a marker device and a tracking system for tracking the marker device, wherein the marker device comprises a rotationally oscillatable magnetic object and wherein the rotational oscillation is excitable by an external magnetic field, i.e. a magnetic field which is generated by a magnetic field providing unit 20, 31 that is located outside of the marker device.
BERNHARD GLEICH, Juergen Erwin Rahmer, Michael Grass
Filed: 9 Dec 19
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Device and System for Personalized Skin Treatment for Home Use
23 Dec 20
The present invention relates to a mask-shaped skin treatment device and system.
Evelyn Josefina Maria SIMONS, Martin JURNA
Filed: 18 Dec 18
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Method and System for Delivering Oxygen to a Patient
23 Dec 20
A system for delivering oxygen comprises an oxygen source; a ventilator operatively connected to the oxygen source to receive a supply of oxygen therefrom; a valve having a) an open position in which the ventilator receives the supply of oxygen from the oxygen source and b) a closed position in which the ventilator is not in fluid communication with the oxygen source; a sensor configured to measure breath flow information for the patient; and a computer system to: determine a volume of gas delivered to the patient during a breath cycle of the patient and an inspiratory volume of gas delivered to the patient during an inspiration phase of the breath cycle by using the breath flow information; and provide input to the valve based on the determined volumes, the provided input causing a movement of the valve between the open and the closed positions.
BERNARD F HETE, CHARLES EDWARD MURRAY
Filed: 17 Dec 19
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Measurement Device
23 Dec 20
The invention relates to a measurement device 1 comprising a rotatable magnetic object 4 which can oscillate with a resonant frequency if excited by an external magnetic torque.
BERNHARD GLEICH, Juergen Erwin Rahmer
Filed: 9 Dec 19
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Privacy Preserving Personal Health Record Service Ecosystem Trials
23 Dec 20
A user device comprises an app that stores and maintains exclusive control of user data, and causes one or more processors to send a request for services according to a trial period to a distributed ledger associated with service providers and anonymously interact with the service providers according to a set of rules maintained in the distributed ledger by passing along a token uniquely associated with the user during for the respective interaction with each service provider without the user data being shared with the service providers.
MARK ANTHONY HENNESSY, MURTAZA BULUT, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON
Filed: 17 Jun 20
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Self-learning Verification Method for Data Authenticity
23 Dec 20
A user device that receives plural strings of data corresponding to physiological data, generated from a training model trained in an unsupervised manner using concurrently implemented loss functions, and using a distance metric, relative to a threshold, applied between the plural strings to provide an indication of authenticity.
MUSTAFA GHASSAN RADHA, LUCAS JACOBUS FRANCISCUS GEURTS, MARK ANTHONY HENNESSY, MARK THOMAS JOHNSON
Filed: 7 May 20
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Animated Position Display of an Oss Interventional Device
23 Dec 20
An OSS animated display system for an interventional device (40) including an integration of one or more optical shape sensors and one or more interventional tools.
Paul THIENPHRAPA, Neriman Nicoletta KAHYA, Olivier Pierre NEMPONT, Pascal Yves François CATHIER, Molly Lara FLEXMAN, Torre Michelle BYDLON, Raoul FLORENT
Filed: 28 Dec 18
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Systems and Methods for Capturing and Presenting Life Moment Information for Subjects with Cognitive Impairment
23 Dec 20
The present disclosure relates to a conversation facilitation system and method configured for capturing and presenting life moment information for a subject with cognitive impairment.
JORN OP DEN BUIJS, CHEVONE MARIE BARRETTO, PAUL MICHAEL FULTON, ALAN WOOLLEY, AART TIJMEN VAN HALTEREN, NICOLAAS GREGORIUS PETRUS DEN TEULING, BENJAMIN EZARD, ARUSHI ANEJA
Filed: 13 Apr 17
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Interactive Self-improving Annotation System for High-risk Plaque Burden Assessment
23 Dec 20
A medical image annotation system for analyzing a medical image.
Hannes NICKISCH, Tobias WISSEL, Michael GRASS
Filed: 26 Feb 19
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Methods and Apparatuses for Encoding an HDR Images, and Methods and Apparatuses for Use of Such Encoded Images
23 Dec 20
Renatus Josephus VAN DER VLEUTEN, Mark Jozef Willem MERTENS
Filed: 2 Sep 20
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Personal Care Device with High Pressure Indicator
16 Dec 20
A personal care device (10) configured to generate a feedback signal in response to excessive pressure applied by a user includes: a body portion (12) comprising a first interacting portion (40); a shaft (24) comprising a second interacting portion (42), wherein the shaft and the second interacting portion are moveable, in response to a force applied by the user, from a first position in which the first interacting portion does not physically interact with the second interacting portion, to a second position in which the first interacting portion physically interacts with the second interacting portion; and a sensor (70) configured to detect the physical interaction between the first interacting portion and the second interacting portion, and further configured to activate a feedback signal, in response to the detection of the physical interaction, to the user that excessive pressure is being applied.
Nathan FARRELL, Vincent JEANNE
Filed: 9 Oct 18
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a Food Processing Device, Comprising a Jar
16 Dec 20
The invention relates to a food processing device (100), comprising: a jar (10), a base unit (20), a vacuum mechanism (30) for sucking air from the jar (10), comprising a vacuum pump (31) arranged in the base unit (20) and a first vacuum conduit (32) extending through the base unit (20), and a lid (40) for covering the jar (10) and realizing air communication between the jar (10) and the base unit (20), wherein the vacuum mechanism (30) further comprises a second vacuum conduit (33) extending through the lid (40), wherein the respective vacuum conduits (32, 33) are engageable to each other through respective engaging ends (34, 35) thereof, and wherein at least one of the engaging ends (34, 35) of the respective vacuum conduits (32, 33) is displaceable between an outward position and a retracted position in the respective one of the base unit (20) and the lid (40).
Samuel Jr. Agustin CUARESMA, Maarten Cornelis Jacob DE HOOG
Filed: 2 Jul 18
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Method and System for Improved Measurement of Localized Oral Inflammation Using Centroid Sampling
16 Dec 20
For localizing gingival inflammation within a user's mouth the following steps are carried out using an oral care device (10): (i) sequentially emitting (520) light by a plurality of light sources (48) in a first sequential pattern, wherein at least some of the plurality of light sources are configured to emit light of different wavelengths; (ii) sequentially emitting (530) light in a second sequential pattern which is the reverse of the first sequential pattern; (iii) obtaining (540), by a light detector (40), reflectance measurements to generate first reflectance data from light emitted in the first sequential pattern, and to generate second reflectance data from light emitted in the second sequential pattern; (iv) averaging (550), by a controller (30), first reflectance data and second reflectance data for each wavelength to generate averaged reflectance data; and (v) determining (570), using the averaged reflectance data, whether gingiva at the location is inflamed.
Steven Charles DEANE, Alan James DAVIE
Filed: 5 Dec 18
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Measurement Guidance for Coronary Flow Estimation from Bernoulli's Principle
16 Dec 20
An apparatus for assessing a hemodynamic property in a coronary vasculature and a corresponding method are provided in which diagnostic data of a vessel of interest is used to identify a first and second measurement position at which a first and a second value for a first hemodynamic property may be obtained whereby these first and second values are suitable to derive at least one diagnostic parameter indicative of a second hemodynamic 5 property that cannot or should not be measured directly.
Christian HAASE, Michael GRASS, Arjen VAN DER HORST
Filed: 15 Nov 18