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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187181 | Scoring of sensed neurological signals for use with a medical device system A medical device system capable of scoring a severity of sensed neurological signals relating to a nervous system disorder. The system comprises a monitoring element that receives a neurological signal having at least one event to be scored. The medical device syste... | 05/29/2012 |
| RE43433 | Computerized medical diagnostic and treatment advice system A system and method for providing computerized, knowledge-based medical diagnostic and treatment advice. The medical advice is provided to the general public over a telephone network. Two new authoring languages, interactive voice response and speech recognition are... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187182 | Sensor fusion for activity identification A mobile device monitors accelerations using one or more inertial sensors. A user activity is identified based on the accelerations. A first estimation is made of a user activity statistic associated with the user activity based on the accelerations. Location inform... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8182424 | Diary-free calorimeter An indirect calorimeter estimates nutritional caloric intake by periodically monitoring weight and sensing physical exercise (i.e., physiological data and/or motion data related to physical exertion), which can then be used in a calorimetry model derived from regres... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8172752 | Automatic wireless PAN/LAN switching A communication system is used by a portable patient monitoring device for connecting to other devices, including a docking station, via one or more networks. The communications system includes an adaptive communication interface which, when the patient monitoring d... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8157729 | System, method and medium editing moving pictures using biometric signals A system, method and medium editing a moving picture using biometric signals is provided. The system includes a biometric signal generation module to measure signals that reflect an emotional state of a user while capturing a moving picture, and to generate a first ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157730 | Physiological and environmental monitoring systems and methods Systems and methods for monitoring various physiological and environmental factors, as well as systems and methods for using this information for a plurality of useful purposes, are provided. Real-time, noninvasive health and environmental monitors include a plurali... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8147406 | Biological information utilization system, biological information utilization method, program, and recording medium In a vital data utilization system (100), measurement systems (110) include a measurement unit (111) measuring the vital data of subjects, a clock unit detecting each measurement time at which vital data is measured and a communication unit (... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8137269 | Method and system for managing physiological system A method and system for managing physiological systems is provided. The physiological system management (PSM) system includes one or more signal acquisition blocks to collect physiological information. The PSM system includes oversampled filterbanks for transferring... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8133176 | Method and circuit for indicating quality and accuracy of physiological measurements Sensors and monitors for a physiological monitoring system having capability to indicate an accuracy of an estimated physiological condition. The sensor senses at least one physiological characteristic of a patient and is connectable to a monitor that estimates the ... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8123684 | Methods for configuring implantable satellite effectors Techniques for controlling one or more modular circuits (“satellites”) that are intended for placement in a subject's body. The one or more satellites are controlled by sending signals over a bus that includes first and second conduction paths. Also coupled to t... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8125318 | Wireless control system for a patient-support apparatus A wireless control system for use with a patient-support apparatus includes a first receiver located on the patient-support apparatus and a wireless hand-held controller configured to wirelessly communicate with the first receiver to control functions of the patient... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8123683 | Apparatus for aggregating individuals based on association variables An apparatus for aggregating individuals based on variables associated with a type of headache is described. The apparatus may include at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module may be stored in the memory and ma... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8114021 | Body-associated receiver and method Receivers, which may be external or implantable, are provided. Aspects of receivers of the invention include the presence of one or more of: a high power-low power module; an intermediary module; a power supply module configured to activate and deactivate one or mor... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8109874 | Mobile device having health care function based on biomedical signals and health care method using the same The present invention relates to a mobile device capable of performing biomedical signal measurement and a health care method using the same. It is an object of the present invention to provide a mobile device capable of efficiently performing health care functions ... | 02/07/2012 |
| 8100829 | System and method for providing a health score for a patient A system and method for providing an indicator of a patient's health. The system may include a data module receiving data relating to a patient's health, the data including subjective data, a conversion module generating an output from the data, the output represent... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8092381 | Threshold training system A system for increasing the fitness level of a fitness enthusiast. The system includes a personalized set of intensity zones corresponding to increasing levels of exercise intensity. The personalization of the system is accomplished through determining a threshold l... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092379 | Method and system for determining when to reposition a physiological sensor A sensor may be placed on a patient to obtain physiological measurements. The application of the sensor on the patient may start a timer set to run for a given time interval. If the sensor is repositioned before the interval is expired, the timer is reset. If the ti... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8092380 | System and method for improving hospital patient care by providing a continual measurement of health A system for improving hospital patient care by generating a Health Score. The system includes an interface module for receiving incoming medical data from a patient, a transformation module for transforming each of the medical datum into a transformed Health Score ... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8083674 | Power saving uplink for biosensors A system for monitoring a physiological condition of an individual. The system (1) comprises sensing means (3) arranged to pick up a first signal (M) in a first mode of the system, said first signal being representative of the physiological condition a... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8083675 | Method and system for providing adaptive rule based cognitive stimulation to a user A method and system for providing evolving, highly variable, long-term on-going cognitive stimulation over a broad spectrum of cognitive domains. The user is presented with a series of entertaining audio/visual activities customized for the user, based on the user's... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8079953 | General-purpose medical instrumentation A general-purpose, low-cost system provides comprehensive physiological data collection, with extensive data object oriented programmability and configurability for a variety of medical as well as other analog data collection applications. In a preferred embodiment,... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8075483 | Device for use in measuring and/or analysing at least one parameter of an external body portion A device (1) for use in measuring and/or analyzing at least one parameter of an external portion of a body comprises at least one surface (3) configured to be placed in the vicinity of said external portion. The device is either a) configured to be abl... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8075484 | Systems and methods for assessing equipment operator fatigue and using fatigue-risk-informed safety-performance-based systems and methods to replace or supplement prescriptive work-rest regulations In a system and method for assessing and modifying fatigue, an input device receives current work-rest pattern and/or sleep data from an individual. A data aggregation and processing platform combines the current work-rest pattern and/or sleep data with previous dat... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8066637 | Method and apparatus for facilitating physiological coherence and autonomic balance Method and apparatus for determining the state of entrainment between biological systems which exhibit oscillatory behavior such as heart rhythms, respiration, blood pressure waves and low frequency brain waves based on a determination of heart rate variability (HRV... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066638 | Diagnostic and intervention tools for emergency medical dispatch A system and method assists an emergency medical dispatcher in responding to emergency calls. A computer implemented emergency medical dispatch protocol includes interrogatories for a dispatcher to ask a caller to generate an appropriate response. A diagnostic tool ... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8066636 | Disease management system and method including pain code A system and method for allowing a patient to access an automated process for managing a specified health problem called a disease. The system performs disease management in a fully automated manner, using periodic interactive dialogs with the patient to obtain heal... | 11/29/2011 |
| 8062219 | Apparatus for determining association variables An apparatus, and related method, for determining one or more association variables is described. The apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module stored in the memory configured to be executed by the processor. The... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8047988 | Avatar refrigerator The present invention relates to a refrigerator for providing a user with a variety of information using an avatar. The present invention comprises a storage device for storing avatar data including a figure and/or a motion of the avatar, a display device provided o... | 11/01/2011 |
| 8043213 | Advanced patient management for triaging health-related data using color codes Systems, devices and methods for triaging health-related data, such as significant health-related events associated with health-related parameters, are disclosed. One aspect is a method for use in managing a patient's health within a patient management system. In va... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8043214 | Neuro-aid An improved neurological testing apparatus 10 for examining a person's neurological system has a body housing 12, one or more separate specific taste testing substances 20, one or more separate specific smell testing substances 30, one or... | 10/25/2011 |
| 8038614 | Establishing baseline data for physiological monitoring system A method for establishing baseline data for normalization in a physiological monitoring system which captures images of an individual in order to monitor the well being of the individual, including establishing the identity of an individual; assembling a set of pers... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038613 | Apparatus for determining association variables An apparatus, and related method, for determining one or more association variables is described. The apparatus includes at least one processor, at least one memory, and at least one program module. The program module is stored in the memory and is configurable to b... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8038615 | Inferring wellness from physiological conditions data A method for inferring the physiological condition an individual using a physiological monitoring system including providing a set of personal data regarding the individual, the personal data including wellness parameter data or semantic data or both, wherein the we... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8033996 | Computer interfaces including physiologically guided avatars This invention provides user interfaces that more intuitively display physiological data obtained from physiological monitoring of one or more subjects. Specifically, the user interfaces of this invention create and display one or more avatars having behaviors guide... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8021297 | Wearable device A wearable device comprising at least two measuring devices (2,3,4,5,6) providing primary data, a processor (1) designed for calculating secondary data from the primary data, for calculating reference data from the primary and/or the secondary data and... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8021298 | System and method for mapping pain depth A pain depth mapping system and method may be used to map the location and depth of pain experienced by a user (e.g., a patient). The pain depth mapping system and method is capable of displaying one or more body representations with symptom representations represen... | 09/20/2011 |
| 8002700 | Communications system for an implantable medical device and a delivery device A closed loop system for monitoring drug dose, intake and effectiveness includes a drug delivery device in data communications with at least one implantable medical device. The system is preferably implemented in a web-enabled environment in which a remote data cent... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8002701 | Medical alarm and communication system and methods A medical alarm communications system comprises a pager like device to be kept near a patient. The pager like device communicates medical alerts regarding the patient to a remote central station, which can provide therapeutic and/or diagnostic assistance by communic... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7998069 | Mask algorithms for health management systems A device and method of providing information to a healthcare provider regarding the dosing of insulin is provided where the data is analyzed to produce a qualified set of points. The applied analysis is performed via parameters that are independent of patient input.... | 08/16/2011 |
