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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20120130263 | MEDICAL DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM A process for pre-processing recorded and digitised heart sounds and corresponding digitised ECG signals is provided. The pre-processed signals (203) are suitable for input into an automatic decision support system implemented by means of a diagnostic decision ne... | 05/24/2012 |
| 20120041317 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR DETECTING ATRIAL FILLING PRESSURE A cardiac rhythm management system provides for ambulatory monitoring of hemodynamic performance based on quantitative measurements of heart sound related parameters for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Monitoring of such heart sound related parameters allows the ca... | 02/16/2012 |
| 20120022348 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR NON-CONTACT MULTIPARAMETER VITAL SIGNS MONITORING, APNEA THERAPY, SWAY CANCELLATION, PATIENT IDENTIFICATION, AND SUBJECT MONITORING SENSORS Aspects of the of the disclosure relate to a non-contact physiological motion sensor and a monitor device that can incorporate use of the Doppler effect. A continuous wave of electromagnetic radiation can be transmitted toward one or more subjects and the Doppler-shifte... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120022351 | Medical Devices and Techniques for Rodent and Small Mammalian Based Research A method and system of supplying rodents, such as mice, to medical researchers pre-installs and/or embeds physiologic sensors onto or within the rodents prior to selling the modified rodents to the researchers. The specialty skills, such as small animal surgical and ane... | 01/26/2012 |
| 20120010517 | STERILITY COVER FOR MEDICAL DEVICE SURFACE An enclosure for a medical instrument including a pair of flexible sheets transmissive to a signal generated by a subject, the pair of sheets being arranged in parallel to each other, sealed along the sides and the top, and between the opposing lateral sides and the top... | 01/12/2012 |
| 20120004565 | ISCHEMIA DETECTION USING A HEART SOUND SENSOR A system comprising an implantable medical device (IMD) includes an implantable heart sound sensor to produce an electrical signal representative of at least one heart sound. The heart sound is associated with mechanical activity of a patient's heart. Additionally, the ... | 01/05/2012 |
| 20110319782 | CARDIAC MECHANICAL VIBRATION MONITOR USING INFORMATION INDICATIVE OF LEAD MOTION Systems and methods to monitor cardiac mechanical vibrations using information indicative of lead motion are described. In an example, a system including an implantable medical device can include an excitation circuit configured to provide a non-tissue stimulating, non-... | 12/29/2011 |
| 20110301473 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ASSESSING CARDIAC PERFORMANCE THROUGH CARDIAC VIBRATION MONITORING A system and method for assessing cardiac performance through cardiac vibration monitoring is described. Cardiac vibration measures are directly collected through an implantable medical device. Cardiac events including at least one first heart sound reflected by the car... | 12/08/2011 |
| 20110295127 | Vibro-Acoustic Detection of Cardiac Conditions Apparatus and methods for vibro-acoustic detection of cardiac conditions are disclosed. An example method includes calculating a frequency difference between a first frequency of a first cardiac signal and a second frequency of a second cardiac signal; calculating an am... | 12/01/2011 |
| 20110263988 | SENSING RATE OF CHANGE OF PRESSURE IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE WITH AN IMPLANTED DEVICE An implantable device and method for monitoring S1 heart sounds with a remotely located accelerometer. The device includes a transducer that converts heart sounds into an electrical signal. A control circuit is coupled to the transducer. The control circuit is configure... | 10/27/2011 |
| 20110257548 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROCESSING HEART SOUND SIGNALS The invention provides a method of processing at least one heart sound signal, and the method comprises the step of: receiving (11) the at least one heart sound signal, segmenting (12) the heart sound signal into a plurality of segments, identifying (13... | 10/20/2011 |
| 20110251508 | NOISE REJECTING ELECTRONIC STETHOSCOPE An acoustic-electronic stethoscope that filters aberrant environmental background noise. The chest piece employs acoustic vents to inhibit resonant amplification of noise and contains a diaphragm design that focuses vibrational energy to a raised ring, which transfers a... | 10/13/2011 |
| 20110213263 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING A HEARTBEAT RATE A method for determining a heartbeat rate of a user from an acoustic heartbeat signal, a heartbeat rate measuring device, and a mobile device are described.... | 09/01/2011 |
| 20110208080 | CATEGORIZING AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA BASED ON INDUSTRY GUIDELINES Methods and systems for mapping a physiological signal into clinical guideline parameters are disclosed. A physiological signal having a characteristic that may represent an anomaly is received and mapped to a clinical guideline condition space. Probabilities are determ... | 08/25/2011 |
| 20110186590 | STRIP ARRAYED STETHOSCOPE COVERS AND DISPENSING APPARATUS A stethoscope cover and carrier strip assembly and a respective stethoscope diaphragm cover dispensing apparatus. The stethoscope cover and carrier strip assembly comprises a plurality of stethoscope covers detachably coupled to a carrier strip in a linear, spatial arra... | 08/04/2011 |
| 20110112423 | INCREASING CPR EFFECTIVENESS USING PHONOCARDIOGRAM ANALYSIS Embodiments of the invention include a system and methods for providing status information about resuscitation efforts of a person receiving chest compressions as part of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR). A microphone generates a soundtrack by sampling sounds within ... | 05/12/2011 |
| 20110105933 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING HEART SOUNDS An apparatus for outputting heart sounds includes an implantable system and an external system. The implantable system includes a sensor for generating sensed signals representing detected heart sounds, an interface circuit and a control circuit for receiving the sensed... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110105932 | MULTI-AXIAL HEART SOUNDS AND MURMUR DETECTION FOR HEMODYNAMIC-CONDITION ASSESSMENT A vector method for monitoring a subject's hemodynamic condition including (a) utilizing at least one, external or internal, anatomy-attached, three-axis accelerometer, collecting from the subject, during a selected cardiac cycle, related, three-orthogonal-axes accelero... | 05/05/2011 |
| 20110098587 | Subcutaneous Cardiac Signal Discrimination Employing Non-Electrophysiologic Signal A cardiac monitoring and/or stimulation system includes a housing coupled to a plurality of electrodes configured for subcutaneous non-intrathoracic sensing. A signal processor receives a plurality of composite signals associated with a plurality of sources, separates a... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110098588 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MONITORING OF DIASTOLIC HEMODYNAMICS A cardiac rhythm management system provides for ambulatory monitoring of hemodynamic performance based on quantitative measurements of heart sound related parameters for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Monitoring of such heart sound related parameters allows the ca... | 04/28/2011 |
| 20110077543 | HEART SOUND TRACKING SYSTEM AND METHOD A system and method provide heart sound tracking, including an input circuit, configured to receive heart sound information, and a heart sound recognition circuit. The heart sound recognition circuit can be coupled to the input circuit and can be configured to recognize... | 03/31/2011 |
| 20110021939 | Method and Device for the Determination of Murmur Frequency Band The present invention is related to a method for the determination of frequency band characteristic of a heart disease comprising the steps of: recording a first set of phonocardiograms from a first set of reference healthy patients, and a second set of phonocardiograms... | 01/27/2011 |
| 20110015500 | METHOD FOR DETERMINING CUSTOMIZED ESSENTIAL OIL BLEND A scientific method and system for determining a customized essential oil blend through accessing a physiolocial data from a user are disclosed in the present invention. The physiological data is heart rate vairiability (HRV), which is associated with cardiac diseases a... | 01/20/2011 |
| 20100331903 | HEART SOUND SENSING TO REDUCE INAPPROPRIATE TACHYARRHYTHMIA THERAPY Techniques for detecting heart sounds to reduce inappropriate tachyarrhythmia therapy are described. In some examples, a medical device determines that a cardiac rhythm of the patient is treatable with a therapy, such as a defibrillation pulse, based on a cardiac electr... | 12/30/2010 |
| 20100217345 | MICROPHONE FOR REMOTE HEALTH SENSING A health sensing device is described for placement on a user. The device may include a sensor, a filter, and a transmitter. The sensor is configured to sense one or more factors relating to an indicator of a health related condition or occurrence. The filter is configur... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100198094 | WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNALS A wearable system for monitoring a plurality of physiological signals is provided. The wearable system includes at least one sensor producing the physiological signals associated with a patient. A processor unit receives the physiological signals from the at least one s... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100145210 | Multi parametric classification of cardiovascular sounds The present application relates to a method for classifying a cardiovascular sound recorded from a living subject. The method comprises the step of extracting at least two signal parameters (309) from said cardiovascular sound, said at least two signal parameters... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100145403 | SENSING RATE OF CHANGE OF PRESSURE IN THE LEFT VENTRICLE WITH AN IMPLANTED DEVICE An implantable device and method for monitoring S1 heart sounds with a remotely located accelerometer. The device includes a transducer that converts heart sounds into an electrical signal. A control circuit is coupled to the transducer. The control circuit is configure... | 06/10/2010 |
| 20100125218 | APPARATUS, METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR DETECTING A PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT FROM A PHYSIOLOGICAL SOUND SIGNAL An apparatus is disclosed, comprising a speaker suitable to be applied at a user's ear and enabled to be supplied with an audio signal for rendering; a microphone arranged in vicinity of the speaker to acquire a sound signal from sounds present in the ear of the user; a... | 05/20/2010 |
| 20100106038 | Method for Segmenting a Cardiovascular Signal This invention describes a method for dividing a substantial cycli cardiovascular signal into segments by determining the characteristics of said cyclic signal, wherein each cycle in said signal comprises at least two characteristic segments and wherein the method compr... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100099997 | METHOD FOR CORRECTION OF POSTURE DEPENDENCE ON HEART SOUNDS A system to monitor heart sounds. The system comprises an implantable heart sound sensor configured to produce an electrical signal representative of at least one heart sound, an implantable posture sensor operable to produce an electrical signal representative of a pat... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100094152 | System and method for acoustic detection of coronary artery disease A system and method for acoustic detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) are provided. The system includes a transducer for acoustically detecting heart signals of a patient and a computer system which executes detection software for processing the detected heart sig... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100094148 | Differential apneic detection in aid of diagnosis and treatment A computer-based detection method employable with a sleeping subject for aiding in the differential-character diagnosis and treatments of apneic events includes gathering heart-sound data, including S1 data and S2 data. A combined time-frequency-intensity (TFI) analysis... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100094151 | Stethoscope Timer Attachment and Clip Holder Therefor A stethoscope timer attachment and clip holder therefore comprising a timing device affixed to a tube of a stethoscope, and a holster to receive the timing device in an inverted position, wherein said holster is connected to a waist band of a pair of pants of a health c... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100087746 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ANALYZING BODY SOUNDS The invention provides a method and system for analyzing body sounds from one or more body organs. An array of transducers is fixed to the body surface over the organs from which body sounds are to be recorded. Analysis of the recorded sound signals includes dividing ea... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100069768 | USE OF CARDIOHEMIC VIBRATION FOR PACING THERAPIES An exemplary method includes receiving a signal from an intrathoracic vibration sensor, analyzing the signal for vibration associated with deceleration of blood flow into the left ventricle, based at least in part on the analyzing, deciding whether to call for adjustmen... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100056956 | MODULAR ELECTRONIC BIOSENSOR WITH INTERFACE FOR RECEIVING DISPARATE MODULES A modular electronic biosensor includes a housing configured for hand-held manipulation and a base module comprising a module interface configured to receive one of a multiplicity of disparate detachable modules, such as a transducer module and an output module. A trans... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100049072 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR RETRIEVAL OF SIMILAR HEART SOUNDS FROM A DATABASE The present invention exploits a visual rendering of heart sounds and models the morphological variations of audio envelopes through a constrained non-rigid translation transform. Similar heart sounds are then retrieved by recovering the corresponding alignment transfor... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100030095 | Pulse Acoustic Analysis System for the Diagnostic of Cardiovascular Disease This invention provides a pulse acoustic analysis system for detecting disease. The present invention further provides a method for detecting a dynamic pressure change in a blood dynamic system in human.... | 02/04/2010 |
| 20100010358 | System and Method For The Detection of Acute Myocardial Infarction A system and method are provided for the detection of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) using a staged approach for accurate and rapid detection. Physiological signals in a patient's body are sensed and corresponding physiological parameters are derived in a staged appr... | 01/14/2010 |
