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Method and System for Monitoring Sleep Quality
13 May 20
A system (400) for monitoring an individual's sleep includes: (i) a patient monitor (410) configured to obtain a patient waveform, the patient waveform comprising information representative of a vital statistic of the patient; a processor (420) in communication with the patient monitor and configured to: (i) process the patient waveform to generate a segmented waveform; (ii) extract at least one feature from a segment of the waveform in a time domain and/or at least one feature from the segment of the waveform in the frequency domain; (iii) classify, using the at least one extracted feature, a sleep stage of the patient for the segment of the waveform; and (iv) generate, from classified sleep stages for a plurality of segments of the waveform, a sleep quality measurement; and a user interface (480) configured to report the generated sleep quality measurement.
Gary Nelson Garcia MOLINA, Cristhian Mauricio POTES BLANDON, Pedro Miguel FERREIRA DOS SANTOS DA FONSECA, Bryan CONROY, Minnan XU
Filed: 9 Jul 18
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Ultrasound Transducer Probe with a Faceted Distal Front Surface
13 May 20
An ultrasound transducer probe (300) for intravascular operation, comprising a faceted distal front surface (302) for ultrasound emission and reception, which has at least two mutually neighboring front surface facets (304.a, 304.b) carrying respective sub-arrays (306) of micromachined ultrasonic transducer MUT elements (308), the sub-arrays of the MUT elements together forming a faceted array of MUT elements distributed over the distal front surface.
Arjen VAN DER HORST, Marcus Cornelis LOUWERSE, Vincent Adrianus HENNEKEN, Johannes Wilhelmus WEEKAMP, Maarten Petrus Joseph KUENEN, Sergei SHULEPOV
Filed: 12 Apr 18
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Personal Care Device Actuator with Rattle Mitigation
13 May 20
An actuator (12) for a personal care appliance (10) having an eccentric core (21) to preload the actuator (12) to prevent rattling caused by detrimental reactionary forces.
Kevin Arnold MILLER, Wolter F. BENNING, Gregory Russ GODDARD, Evert Alle HELFRICH
Filed: 16 Jan 20
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System for Anti-biofouling
13 May 20
The invention provides an anti-fouling lighting system (1) configured for preventing or reducing biofouling on a fouling surface (1201) of an object (1200), by providing an anti-fouling light (211) via an optical medium (220) to said fouling surface (1201), the anti-fouling lighting (1) system comprising: (a) a lighting module (200) comprising (i) a light source (210) configured to generate an anti-fouling light (211), and (ii) said optical medium (220) configured to receive at least part of the anti-fouling light (211), the optical medium (220) comprising an emission surface (222) configured to provide at least part of said anti-fouling light (211); and (b) a control system (300) configured to control an intensity of the anti-fouling light (211) as function of one or more of (i) a feedback signal related to a biofouling risk and (ii) a timer for time-based varying the intensity of the anti-fouling light (211).
Bart Andre Salters, Roelant Boudewijn Hietbrink
Filed: 15 Jan 20
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Apparatus for Generating X-rays
13 May 20
The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for generating X-rays.
ANAND KUMAR DOKANIA, ROLF KARL OTTO BEHLING
Filed: 29 May 18
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Cell Cultering Materials
13 May 20
A material for binding to a cell culturing protein is disclosed.
LUCAS JOHANNES ANNA MARIA BECKERS, JAN CORNELIS KRIEGE
Filed: 5 Jul 18
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Superconducting Magnet with Cold Head Thermal Path Cooled by Heat Exchanger
13 May 20
A superconducting magnet includes a liquid helium reservoir (14), superconducting magnet windings (12) disposed in the liquid helium reservoir, and a vacuum jacket (20) surrounding the liquid helium reservoir.
HONG HU, JOSHUA KENT HILDEBRAND, GLEN GEORGE PFLEIDERER
Filed: 16 Jul 18
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MR Imaging Using a Stack of Stars Acquisition with Variable Contrast
13 May 20
The invention relates to a method of MR imaging of an object.
GARBRIELE MARIANNE BECK
Filed: 3 Jun 18
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Generating Conversation Content for Communication with a User
13 May 20
There is provided a system for generating conversation content for communication with a user.
Rajendra Singh SISODIA, Aart Tijmen VAN HALTEREN
Filed: 25 Jun 18
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Self-aware Image Segmentation Methods and Systems
13 May 20
The following relates generally to image segmentation.
PINGKUN YAN, CHRISTOPHER STEPHEN HALL, KONGKUO LU
Filed: 7 Jan 20
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Antibiotic Resistance Causation Identification
13 May 20
A system to identify genes that confer antibiotic resistance, comprising: a processor configured to: (i) identify a set of genes present in a sample of genome sequences sequenced from potentially pathogenic isolates; (ii) generate a genome sequence without the identified set of genes; (iii) generate a gene presence-absence matrix listing the genes present in each of the genome sequences, comprising an identification of each of the plurality of genes and an identification of each of the plurality of genome sequences, and comprising an identification of whether each of the genome sequences is obtained from an organism resistant to at least one antibiotic, and further comprising an identification of either presence or absence of the respective gene within the respective genome sequence; and (iv) identify at least one gene or mutation in the plurality of genome sequences associated with antibiotic resistance; and a user interface configured to provide a report.
KARTHIKEYAN MURUGESAN, NEVENKA DIMITROVA, HENRY LIN, PRAMOD MAYIGOWDA
Filed: 16 Jan 20
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Scheduling a Task for a Medical Professional
13 May 20
According to an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method of scheduling a task for a medical professional.
Gijs Geleijnse, Ana Jorge Rodrigues de Moura Leitao, Marco van Leeuwen, Jennifer Caffarel
Filed: 16 May 18
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Systems and Methods for Dynamic Monitoring of Patient Conditions and Prediction of Adverse Events
13 May 20
Systems and methods are provided for healthcare predictive analysis based on dynamic monitoring of patient conditions.
YANG YANG, TIANZHONG YANG, REZA SHARIFI SEDEH, Yugang Jia
Filed: 4 Jun 18
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Key Agreement Devices and Method
13 May 20
A first electronic network node (110) is provided configured for a key exchange (KEX) protocol, the first network node is configured to obtain a shared polynomial (a) shared with a second network node, coefficients of the shared polynomial a being selected modulo a first modulus q, generate a private key polynomial (skI), coefficients of the private key polynomial being bounded in absolute value by a bound (s) generate a public key polynomial (pkI) by computing a polynomial product between the shared polynomial (a) and the private key polynomial (skI) modulo the first modulus (q) and scaling the coefficients of the polynomial product down to a second modulus (p).
SAUVIK BHATTACHARYA, OSCAR GARCIA MORCHON, LUDOVICUS MARINUS GERARDUS MARIA TOLHUIZEN, RONALD RIETMAN
Filed: 1 May 18
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Method and Apparatus for Audio Capture Using Beamforming
6 May 20
An apparatus for capturing audio comprises a first beamformer (305) coupled to a microphone array (301) and arranged to generate a first beamformed audio output.
CORNELIS PIETER JANSE, BRIAN BRAND ANTONIUS JOHANNES BLOEMENDAL, PATRICK KECHICHIAN, RIK JOZEF MARTINUS JANSSEN
Filed: 27 Dec 17
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Beverage Making Device Comprising a Switching Valve
6 May 20
The invention provides a beverage maker comprising a pressure-controlled switching valve (1) that comprises the following components: a valve body (20) comprising an internal switching space (21); a switching device (40) being movably arranged in the internal switching space (21) and comprising two functional valve members (41, 42) that are arranged and configured to seal respective fluid outlet openings (23, 24) of the valve body (20) in respective positions of the switching device (40); a position setting device (30) for displacing the switching device (40) under the influence of fluid pressure acting on the position setting device (30) at one side thereof; and a biasing mechanism (70) acting on the entirety of the switching device (40) and the position setting device (30) coupled thereto.
Joeke NOORDHUIS
Filed: 27 Jun 18
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Method and Apparatus for Early Caries Detection
6 May 20
A method (300) for detecting one or more caries using an imaging device (10), the method including the steps of: (i) directing (320) light from a first light source (12) toward a tooth (40); (ii) measuring (340), with an optical sensor (16), transmission of light from the first light source through the tooth; (iii) directing (330) light from a second light source (14) toward the tooth, wherein the second light source directs light at the tooth at a different angle relative to the first light source; (iv) measuring (350), with the optical sensor, reflectance from the tooth of light from the second light source; (v) comparing (360) the measured transmission to the measured reflectance; and (vi) determining (370), based at least in part on said comparison, whether a caries is present in the tooth.
Johannes Hendrikus Maria SPRUIT, Cristian Nicolae PRESURA, Steven Charles DEANE
Filed: 20 Jun 18
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Wearable Device, System and Method
6 May 20
The present disclosure relates to the fields of medical technology as well as fitness and activity trackers.
LAURENTIA JOHANNA HUIJBREGTS, ACHIM HILGERS, RONALDUS MARIA AARTS
Filed: 19 Jul 18
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Devices, Systems, and Methods for Evaluating Acuteness of Deep Vein Thrombosis
6 May 20
A method for evaluating deep vein thrombosis (DVT) caused by a blood clot formed in a deep vein of a patient is provided.
David GOODMAN
Filed: 18 Jul 18
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Methods and Systems for Filtering Ultrasound Image Clutter
6 May 20
The invention provides a method for generating an ultrasound image.
Jun Seob Shin, Seungsoo Kim, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Sheng-Wen Huang, Jean-Luc Francois-Marie Robert
Filed: 23 Apr 18