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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6587702 | Classification and characterization of tissue through features related to adipose tissue A non-invasive system for characterizing and classifying the state and structure of a tissue sample operates on a near infrared absorbance spectrum of in vivo tissue. A method that uses near-infrared spectral measurements to characterize and classify the ... | 07/01/2003 |
| 6501982 | System for the noninvasive estimation of relative age Noninvasive instrumentation and procedures have been developed for estimating the apparent age of human and animal subjects based on the irradiation of skin tissue with near-infrared light. The method of age estimation provides additional information abou... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6493566 | Classification system for sex determination and tissue characterization Instrumentation and procedures for noninvasively determining the sex of human and animal subjects in vivo have been developed based on the irradiation of skin tissue with near infrared light. The method of sex determination provides additional information... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6487429 | Use of targeted glycemic profiles in the calibration of a noninvasive blood glucose monitor A method of calibrating a non-invasive blood glucose measurement instrument to a diabetic test subject employs targeted glycemic profiles in anti-correlated pairs. During calibration, reference blood glucose determinations are made using conventional inva... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6475800 | Intra-serum and intra-gel for modeling human skin tissue The invention provides a class of samples that model the human body. This family of samples is based upon emulsions of oil in water with lecithin acting as the emulsifier. These solutions that have varying particle sizes may be spiked with basis set compo... | 11/05/2002 |
| 6456870 | Non-invasive method of determining skin thickness and characterizing layers of skin tissue in vivo A novel approach to measuring the overall and layer-by-layer thickness of in vivo skin tissue based on near infrared absorbance spectra is described. The different biological and chemical compounds present in the various layers of a tissue sample have dif... | 09/24/2002 |
| 6442824 | Compromise rail A compromise rail is formed of a single length of stock rail. One end of the rail is forged over a distance of 19-48 inches to reduce the height of the forged portion, which is then machined to match the running rail to which that end is to be attached. T... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6442408 | Method for quantification of stratum corneum hydration using diffuse reflectance spectroscopy An apparatus and method for non-invasively quantifying the hydration of the stratum corneum of a living subject utilizes in vivo spectral measurements made by irradiating skin tissue with near infrared (NIR) light. The apparatus includes a spectroscopic i... | 08/27/2002 |
| 6425877 | Treatment of tissue in the digestive circulatory respiratory urinary and reproductive systems Apparatus for creating a controlled pattern of ablation throughout the interior of an organ or body cavity while minimizing thermal damage to collateral tissue includes a microporous balloon mounted on a catheter. The balloon, bearing electrodes embedded ... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6425853 | Treating body tissue by applying energy and substances with a retractable catheter and contained cooling element The invention provides a method and system for treatment for body structures, especially internal body structures involving unwanted features or other disorders, that does not require relatively invasive surgery, and is not subject to other drawbacks note... | 07/30/2002 |
| 6419673 | Ablation of rectal and other internal body structures The invention provides an apparatus and system for ablation of body structures or tissue in the region of the rectum. A catheter is inserted into the rectum, and an electrode is disposed thereon for emitting energy. The environment for an ablation region ... | 07/16/2002 |
| 6415167 | Fiber optic probe placement guide A fiber optic probe placement guide minimizes sampling errors during optical sampling of a tissue measurement site by allowing repeatable placement of the fiber optic probe at a targeted tissue measurement site. A mount, contoured to conform to the shape ... | 07/02/2002 |
| 6411373 | Fiber optic illumination and detection patterns, shapes, and locations for use in spectroscopic analysis The invention provides a design process that is used in the determination of the pattern of detector and illumination optical fibers at the sampling area of a subject. Information about the system, specifically a monochromator (e.g. to determine the optim... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6405065 | Non-invasive in vivo tissue classification using near-infrared measurements An in vivo, non-invasive method of tissue classification using near-IR (NIR) spectral measurements. A classification model is based on NIR spectral absorbance measurements from an exemplary population. Spectral features representing variation between tiss... | 06/11/2002 |
| 6280381 | Intelligent system for noninvasive blood analyte prediction An intelligent system for measuring blood analytes noninvasively operates on a near infrared absorbance spectrum of in vivo skin tissue. An hierarchical architecture employs a pattern classification engine to adapt the calibration to the structural proper... | 08/28/2001 |
| 6236047 | Method for multi-spectral analysis of organic blood analytes in noninvasive infrared spectroscopy A method is described for determining the concentration of an organic blood analyte using multi-spectral analysis in the near infrared and mid-infrared ranges. Incident radiation containing a plurality of distinct, nonoverlapping regions of wavelengths in... | 05/22/2001 |
| 6212283 | Articulation assembly for intracanal hearing devices The invention provides a ball joint assembly for articulated hearing devices. The ball joint assembly acoustically and mechanically separates a receiver module, placed deeply within the ear canal near the tympanic membrane, from a main module, placed rela... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6195679 | Browsing session recording playback and editing system for generating user defined paths and allowing users to mark the priority of items in the paths A session navigation and recording system for a computer environment automatically records every web page that the user visits, thus preserving the context of the paths and allowing the user to view all of the paths traversed in a session which are placed... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6167138 | Spatialization for hearing evaluation A hearing evaluation and hearing aid fitting system provides a fully immersive three-dimensional acoustic environment to evaluate unaided, simulated aided, and aided hearing function of an individual. Digital filtering of signal sources representing speec... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6134592 | Persistant client state in a hypertext transfer protocol based client-server system A method and apparatus for transferring state information between a server computer system and a client computer system. In one embodiment of the method, an http client requests a file, such as an HTML document, on an http server, and the http server tran... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6129174 | Minimal contact replaceable acoustic coupler An acoustic coupler adapted for use with an intracanal receiver module can be deeply inserted into the ear canal of the user while making minimal contact with the walls of the ear canal. The minimal contact feature of the invention allows the acoustic cou... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6078924 | Method and apparatus for performing data collection, interpretation and analysis, in an information platform An information platform automates the collection of data, provides a method for organizing the library of information and provides analysis using multiple content-types, thereby providing a user with a market understanding necessary to execute rapid and k... | 06/20/2000 |
