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Oral Care Particles and System for the Administration Thereof
19 Feb 20
Disclosed is a preparation for the interdental delivery of oral care agent.
BART GOTTENBOS
Filed: 12 Oct 17
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Method of Optimizing Collimator Trajectory In Volumetric Modulated Arc Therapy
19 Feb 20
In a continuous arc radiation therapy planning method for planning a radiation therapy session parameterized by a set parameters for control points (CPs) along at least one radiation source arc, a geometric optimization (40) is performed that does not include calculating radiation absorption profiles to generate optimized values for a sub-set of the parameters.
Vaitheeswaran RANGANATHAN
Filed: 29 Oct 17
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Filled Cavity Three-dimensional Printed Objects and Methods for Production
19 Feb 20
The disclosure provides a system and method for producing a 3D printed object that includes printing a plurality of cavities (110) within or interior to the object (1) and providing a plurality of passages (120) between the cavities so that at least a portion of the printed cavities are in fluid communication with each other.
Gereon Vogtmeier
Filed: 6 Nov 17
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Device, System, and Method for Determining a Reading Environment by Synthesizing Downstream Needs
12 Feb 20
A device, system, and method determines a reading environment by synthesizing downstream needs.
Merlijn SEVENSTER, Paul Joseph CHANG
Filed: 9 Apr 18
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Continuous Outpatient Ecg Monitoring System
12 Feb 20
An ECG monitoring system for ambulatory patients includes a small multi-electrode patch that adhesively attaches to the chest of a patient.
Thomas SOLOSKO, Stacy GEHMAN, Earl HERLEIKSON, Thomas LYSTER, Shannon FONG, Kim HANSEN, Jon BISHAY, Chuni KAO, Brett CROSS, Krishnakant NAMMI, Corinne MAUSER
Filed: 16 Oct 19
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Method and Apparatus for Determining a Fall Risk
12 Feb 20
According to an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method of determining a fall risk of a subject, the method comprising receiving a first data set indicative of movement of the subject; receiving a second data set indicative of context information of the subject; selecting a part of the first data set based on the second data set; and determining a fall risk based on the selected part of the first data set.
JANNEKE ANNEGARN, SIETSE MENNO RISPENS, WARNER RUDOLPH THEOPHILE TEN KATE
Filed: 9 Oct 17
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Cardiac Motion Signal Derived from Optical Images
12 Feb 20
The invention provides for a medical apparatus (100, 200, 300, 500) comprising an optical imaging system (106) configured for acquiring a series of optical images (544) descriptive of cardiac motion of a subject (102).
JULIEN SENEGAS, SASCHA KRUEGER, DANIEL WIRTZ, CHRISTIAN STEHNING
Filed: 15 Mar 18
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Contrast Injection Imaging
12 Feb 20
Imaging systems and methods for imaging assisted interventional procedure that receive images of a region of interest, that automatically detect in the images a contrast agent puff as it courses through the region of interest, and that generate a display including a video replay loop of contrast enhanced images based on the automatic detection of the contrast agent puff.
Vincent Maurice Andre AUVRAY, Pierre Henri LELONG, RAOUL FLORENT
Filed: 1 Mar 18
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Interventional Instrument Comprising an Ultrasound Transducer
12 Feb 20
The invention relates to an interventional instrument like a catheter comprising an ultrasound unit (41) and a rotation unit (5) for rotating the ultrasound unit, wherein the rotation unit comprises an actuation element (8) being an electroactive polymer or a one-way shape memory alloy for actuating the rotation of the ultrasound unit.
Franciscus Johannes Gerardus HAKKENS, Cornelis Petrus HENDRIKS, Franciscus Reinier Antonius VAN DER LINDE, Gerhardus Wilhelmus LUCASSEN, Ronald Antonie HOVENKAMP, Arjen VAN DER HORST, Gerardus Henricus Maria GIJSBERS, Eduard Gerard Marie PELSSERS, Godefridus Antonius HARKS
Filed: 25 Oct 17
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Treatment Mode Selection Systems and Laser Catheter Systems Including Same
12 Feb 20
The present disclosure relates generally to the use of medical devices for the treatment of vascular conditions.
Adam TSCHIDA, James David CEZO
Filed: 6 Aug 19
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Imaging System and Method for Control and Diagnostics Within Mechanical Ventilation
12 Feb 20
A ventilator system (10) includes a ventilator source (12), camera (14), database (16) and controller (16).
WILLIAM ANTHONY TRUSCHEL
Filed: 31 Oct 17
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Systems and Methods for Concurrent Airway Stabilization and Pulmonary Stretch Receptor Activation
12 Feb 20
A method for the concurrent treatment of obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension in a patient comprises providing a flow of treatment gas to the airway of the patient in accordance with a first set of flow parameters.
JONATHAN SAYER GRASHOW, GREGORY DELANO MATTHEWS, MICHAEL THOMAS KANE, EUGENE NELSON SCARBERRY
Filed: 22 Mar 18
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Valve Arrangement for Full Face Mask
12 Feb 20
A valve arrangement (60) is for a patient interface device (10) having a frame portion (16).
KEVIN DANIEL HIMES, DERRICK BLAKE ANDREWS, ROBERT EARL HIEBER
Filed: 19 Mar 18
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Light Emitting Arrangement and Method for Anti-fouling of a Protected Surface
12 Feb 20
A light emitting arrangement (100) is provided for realizing anti-fouling of a surface (30) of a marine structure.
Roelant Boudewijn HIETBRINK, Bart Andre SALTERS
Filed: 9 Oct 17
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Device, System and Method for CO2 Monitoring
12 Feb 20
The present invention relates to a device, system and method for CO2 monitoring.
Albertus Cornelis DEN BRINKER, Vincent JEANNE, Michel Jozef Agnes ASSELMAN, Koray KARAKAYA, Gerrit Maria KERSTEN, Christian Andreas TIEMANN, Murtaza BULUT
Filed: 26 Oct 17
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Radio Frequency Receive Coil for Use In Magnetic Resonance Imaging Systems with Disconnection Warning
12 Feb 20
The present invention provides a radio frequency (RF) receive coil device for use in a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system, comprising a RF receive coil, a plug for connecting the RF receive coil to the MR imaging system, sensing means for sensing the presence of a magnetic field of the MR imaging system, detecting means for detecting if the plug is connected to the MR imaging system, and a warning means for generating a warning when the sensing means sense the presence of a magnetic field of the MR imaging system and the detecting means detect that the plug is not connected to the MR imaging system.
MIHA FUDERER, JOHANNES MATIA VAN EGGERMOND
Filed: 15 Oct 19
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Gradient System with Controlled Cooling In the Individual Gradient Channels
12 Feb 20
The present disclosure relates to a gradient coil system (107, 207) for a magnetic resonance imaging, MRI, system (100).
JOHANNES ADRIANUS OVERWEG
Filed: 19 Feb 18
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an Ultrasound System with a Tissue Type Analyzer
12 Feb 20
An ultrasound system (100) for imaging a volumetric region comprising a region of interest (12) comprising: a probe having an array of CMUT transducers (14) adapted to transmit ultrasound beams and receive returning echo signals over the volumetric region; a beamformer (64) coupled to the array and adapted to control ultrasound beam transmission and provide ultrasound image data of the volumetric region; a transducer controller (62) coupled to the beamformer and adapted to vary driving pulse characteristics of the CMUT transducers, a region of interest identifier (72) enabling an identification of a region of interest on the basis of the ultrasound image data; a beam path analyzer (70) responsive to the ROI identification and arranged to detect an attenuating tissue type in between the probe and the ROI based on a depth variation in attenuation of the received signal; wherein the transducer controller is further adapted to change, based on the attenuating tissue type detection, at least one parameter of the driving pulse characteristics.
Martin Pekar, Wendy Uyen Dittmer
Filed: 24 Oct 17
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Power Transmitter and Method for Wirelessly Transferring Power
12 Feb 20
A power transmitter (501) for a wireless power transfer system includes a parallel resonance circuit (601) comprising at a transmitter coil (503) for generating the power transfer signal.
Wilhelmus Gerardus Maria ETTES, Antonius Adriaan Maria STARING, Lennaert Quirijn BRONTS, Eddy Gerrit VELTMAN, Andries VAN WAGENINGEN
Filed: 5 Nov 17
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Multi Domain Real-time Question Answering System
12 Feb 20
A system (1000) for automated question answering, including: semantic space (210) generated from a corpus of questions and answers; a user interface (1030) configured to receive a question; and a processor (1100) comprising: (i) a question decomposition engine (1050) configured to decompose the question into a domain, a keyword, and a focus word; (ii) a question similarity generator (1060) configured to identify one or more questions in a semantic space using the decomposed question; (iii) an answer extraction and ranking engine (1080) configured to: extract, from the semantic space, answers associated with the one or more identified questions; and identify one or more of the extracted answers as a best answer; and (iv) an answer tuning engine (1090) configured to fine-tune the identified best answer using one or more of the domain, keyword, and focus word; wherein the fine-tuned answer is provided to the user via the user interface.
Vivek Varma DATLA, Sheikh Sadid AL HASAN, Oladimeji Feyisetan FARRI, Junyi LIU, Kathy Mi Young LEE, Ashequl QADIR, Adi PRAKASH
Filed: 16 Oct 17