3338 patents
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Imprinted method and patterned layer
16 Jan 24
Provided is a method of providing a patterned layer (50).
Marcus Antonius Verschuuren
Filed: 16 Jun 21
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Method and system for creating a domain-specific training corpus from generic domain corpora
16 Jan 24
A method (100) for generating a domain-specific training set, comprising: generating (130) a generic corpus comprising a plurality of tokenized documents, comprising: (i) parsing (132) a document retrieved from the generic corpus; (ii) preprocessing (134) the parsed document; (iii) tokenizing (136) the preprocessed document; and (iv) storing (138) the tokenized document in the generic corpus; generating (140) an ontology database of tokenized entries, comprising: (i) parsing (142) an ontology entry retrieved from an ontology; (ii) preprocessing (144) the parsed entry; (iii) tokenizing (146) the preprocessed entry; and (iv) storing (148) the tokenized entry in the ontology database; querying (150), using domain-specific tokenized entries from the ontology database, the tokenized documents in the generic corpus; identifying (160), based on the query, a plurality of tokenized documents specific to the domain; and storing (170), in a training set database, the identified tokenized documents as a training set specific to the domain.
Henghui Zhu, Amir Mohammad Tahmasebi Maraghoosh, Ioannis Paschalidis
Filed: 26 Nov 19
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Learning and applying contextual similiarities between entities
16 Jan 24
Techniques disclosed herein relate to learning and applying contextual patient similarities.
Bryan Conroy, Minnan Xu, Asif Rahman, Cristhian Mauricio Potes Blandon
Filed: 17 Sep 21
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Tomographic x-ray image reconstruction
16 Jan 24
An apparatus for image reconstruction that includes input circuitry configured to acquire, from an image sequence, first and second 2D projection data of a region of interest of an object at respective acquisition times; and provide first 3D object data of a first object in a region of interest and second 3D object data of a second object in a region of interest.
Christian Haase, Michael Grass, Dirk Schaefer
Filed: 18 Mar 19
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Method for providing automatic adaptive energy setting for ct virtual momochromatic imaging
16 Jan 24
An image processing system (IPS), comprising: an input interface (IN) for receiving a request to visualize image data captured of an anatomy of interest by an imaging apparatus (IA).
Zimam Romman, Shlomo Gotman
Filed: 23 Jul 19
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Advanced control features for steering devices for intravascular devices and associated systems and methods
16 Jan 24
Handheld steering devices for use with intravascular devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed.
Princeton Saroha, Jeremy Stigall, Maritess Minas
Filed: 7 Oct 16
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Coffee machine with integrated steam and hot water generation
16 Jan 24
A coffee machine makes use of a valve arrangement for controlling the coupling of a water heater outlet selectively to one of two or more outlets, such as a steam delivery nozzle, a brew chamber and a water collection unit (e.g. drip tray).
Johannes Hotze Bernhard De Vries, Rodin Enne Bruinsma
Filed: 13 Dec 18
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Interventional device positioning relative to an ultrasound image plane
16 Jan 24
System (10) for determining a position of an interventional device (11) respective an image plane (12) defined by an ultrasound imaging probe (13).
Mischa Megens, Hendrik Roelof Stapert, Mustafa Hakan Gokgurler, Stefan Van De Pas, Jeroen Kortsmit, Franciscus Hendrikus Van Heesch, Harm Jan Willem Belt, Ameet Kumar Jain, Kunal Vaidya, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon
Filed: 7 Aug 19
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Instrument alignment and tracking with ultrasound imaging plane
16 Jan 24
A tool navigation system employing an ultrasound probe, an ultrasound scanner, an interventional tool, a tool tracker and an image navigator.
Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon, Ameet Kumar Jain
Filed: 27 Jul 21
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Aerodynamic rail covers
16 Jan 24
An aerodynamic rail cover for an operating room with laminar airflow is provided.
Cornelis Pieter Bakker, Nikolai Chikovskii, Maikel Van Eekelen
Filed: 22 Dec 22
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Detecting and treating COPD-OSA overlap syndrome
16 Jan 24
The present ventilator system, for detecting and treating concurrent chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA event(s)) overlap syndrome, comprises a pressure generator for generating a pressurized flow of breathable gas for delivery to an airway of a subject; sensor(s) for generating output signals conveying information related to breathable gas parameters; and processor(s) operatively connected to the sensor(s) and the pressure generator, configured to: detect presence of OSA event(s) and/or expiratory flow limitation (EFL) in the subject based on the output signals.
Robert Romano, Richard James McKenzie, Jr.
Filed: 9 Sep 20
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Patient sleep therapy mask selection tool
16 Jan 24
A method of identifying a particular mask for a patient for use in delivering a flow of breathing gas to the patient includes capturing with a visual presentation and interaction component a plurality of images of the patient; receiving with the visual presentation and interaction component a number of responses from the patient to questions presented to the patient, eliminating one or more masks from a pool of potential masks for the patent based on at least one of the responses, utilizing at least some images of the plurality of images to determine the particular mask for the patient from the pool of potential masks, and identifying the particular mask to the patient.
Michael Lashinsky, Melissa Sue Ross, Ryan T. Kasun, Kevin Anthony Coldren, Richard Andrew Sofranko, Jonathan Sayer Grashow, Robert William Baiko, Daniel Steed, Praveen Kumar Pandian Shanmuganathan
Filed: 5 Jun 20
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Shaving device, shaving system with the shaving device and a cleaning device, and a cleaning method
16 Jan 24
A shaving system comprises a shaving device and a cleaning device.
Tim Mengerink, Johannes Antonius Jansen, Oedilius Johannes Bisschop, Jeroen Christian Nijdam
Filed: 10 Jul 20
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Identification of epidemiology transmission hot spots in a medical facility
16 Jan 24
In an epidemiology transmission probability analysis for a medical facility, ray origin points are distributed over a medical facility floor map.
Andrew G. Hoss
Filed: 8 Jul 19
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Audio apparatus and method of audio processing for rendering audio elements of an audio scene
16 Jan 24
An audio apparatus and method employ a first renderer circuit, wherein the first renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a first set of audio signals for a set of loudspeakers; and a second renderer circuit, wherein the second renderer circuit is arranged to render audio elements by generating a second set of audio signals for headphones, and select between the first renderer circuit and the second renderer circuit such that the rendering of at least a first part of a first audio element is in response to a first audio rendering property indicator which is received in an audio signal.
Werner Paulus Josephus De Bruijn, Nathan Souviraa-Labastie
Filed: 2 Feb 23
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Cleaning device
9 Jan 24
A cleaning device comprises a surface interaction layer (ML), a cleaning fluid supply (CFF) provided with a cleaning fluid channel (CFC) at the surface interaction layer (ML) for supplying a cleaning fluid to a surface (F) through the surface interaction layer (ML) being in contact with the surface (F), and a dirty fluid drain (DFD) having a dirty fluid channel (DFC) at the surface interaction layer (ML) for draining, by means of underpressure, dirty water from the surface (F) through the surface interaction layer (ML) being in contact with the surface (F).
Bastiaan Johannes De Wit, Matthijs Hendrikus Lubbers, Pieter Kingma
Filed: 19 Feb 21
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Apparatus for characterizing a vessel wall
9 Jan 24
The invention presents an apparatus (6) for characterization of a condition of a vessel (12) wall of a living being (2).
Daniel Simon Anna Ruijters
Filed: 11 Dec 21
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X-ray imaging systems for reducing artefacts associated with anti-scatter grids and methods of operating the same
9 Jan 24
The disclosure relates to an X-ray imaging system for acquiring two-dimensional or three-dimensional images of a subject.
Nishant Singh, Klaus Jürgen Engel, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs, Bernd Menser, Lester Donald Miller, Fred Simon Berend Van Nijnatten
Filed: 8 Dec 21
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Systems and methods of operation of capacitive radio frequency micro-electromechanical switches
9 Jan 24
Disclosed are systems and methods of operation for capacitive radio frequency micro-electromechanical switches, such as CMUT cells for use in an ultrasound system.
Hans-Peter Loebl, Sergei Shulepov
Filed: 21 Dec 17
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Needle with thin film sensors
9 Jan 24
A sensor device includes a flexible planar strip with a plurality of layers is described.
Ramon Quido Erkamp, Ameet Kumar Jain, Francois Guy Gerard Marie Vignon
Filed: 21 Mar 21