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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8075490 | Vascular resistance gauge A system and a method for assessing the patency of a vessel or a graft during coronary artery bypass grafting surgery or PTCA, said system comprising a syringe capable of electronically measuring the pressure and flow of a fluid that is injected into the vessel or g... | 12/13/2011 |
| 8057398 | Method, system, and apparatus for cardiovascular signal analysis, modeling, and monitoring Disclosed embodiments of the invention include a method, system, and apparatus to monitor cardiovascular signals such as arterial blood pressure (ABP), pulse oximetry (POX), and intracranial pressure (ICP). The system can be used to calculate and monitor usef... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8052610 | Event registration for automatic threshold setting An implantable medical device includes a sensor for sensing a first signal in a patient, detection circuitry for receiving the first signal, determining a parameter therefrom, and detecting a first event in response to the parameter. The device further includes cont... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8016761 | Method and apparatus for automated flow mediated dilation A method and system for use in measuring the endothelial dysfunction in a patient utilizing flow mediated dilation. The system includes both a non-invasive blood pressure monitor and an ultrasound system that communicate with each other to perform the flow mediated ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 7988634 | Adaptive cancellation of a signal component A cardiac-related signal such as a cardiogenic impedance signal is derived to obtain cardiac information such as stroke volume information that may be used to evaluate cardiac performance and/or other medical conditions. In some aspects detection of the cardiogenic ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7918800 | Aneurysm sensing devices and delivery systems A system for gaining access to an interventional site within vasculature through a vessel wall or other structure such as that of a medical device. An apparatus is provided to accomplish a sealed worksite as are sensor delivery systems including sealable sensor devi... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7909768 | Reducing data acquisition, power and processing for hemodynamic signal sampling Methods, systems and devices are provided for reducing the amount of data, processing and/or power required to analyze hemodynamic signals such as photoplethysmography (PPG) signals, pressure signals, and impedance signals. In response to detecting a specific event ... | 03/22/2011 |
| 7883469 | Device for determining cardiac function parameters A device for detecting the state of a heart on the basis of intracardial impedance measurement. The device has an impedance measuring unit, which has electrical terminals, configured to be electrically connected or to be connected to electrodes for delivering and de... | 02/08/2011 |
| 7857767 | Lumen-traveling device Lumen-traveling devices and associated methods and systems are described. Lumen-traveling devices capable of traveling within a body lumen may include a propelling mechanism to produce movement of the lumen-traveling device within the lumen, as well as additional co... | 12/28/2010 |
| 7846104 | Monitoring physiological condition and detecting abnormalities A method for monitoring an individual's physiological condition and detecting abnormalities therein, comprising concurrently receiving an electrocardiograph signal and a ballistocardiograph signal. The electrocardiograph and ballistocardiograph signals are condition... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7744540 | Patient data mining for cardiology screening A system and method for screening for coronary heart disease is provided. The method includes the steps of retrieving a test for assessing risk of coronary heart disease, the test including a plurality of data fields relating to coronary risk factors; accessing a da... | 06/29/2010 |
| 7699784 | System for detecting and monitoring vital signs A system and method for determining and monitoring various characteristics of a patient positioned on a patient support apparatus, such as a bed, stretcher, or cot, is disclosed. The system and method involve monitoring the forces exerted by the patient on one or mo... | 04/20/2010 |
| 7682312 | System for sensing, diagnosing and treating physiological conditions and methods One method for diagnosing a cardiovascular-related condition in a breathing person comprises interfacing a valve system to the person's airway. The valve system is configured to decrease or prevent respiratory gas flow to the person's lungs during at least a portion... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7678057 | Device and system that identifies cardiovascular insufficiency In an embodiment, the present invention provides a device that identifies cardiovascular dysfunction of a subject. The claimed device comprises a controller, a transducer, and a processor. The controller initiates collection of a plurality of data related to a physi... | 03/16/2010 |
| 7654962 | Radiation stress non-invasive blood pressure method The invention determines the energy dispersion via acoustic, electromechanical or other related physiological signals collected from a patient that lies down or otherwise engages a discritized sensing array. Signals are monitored over a range of frequencies and coll... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7621875 | Methods, systems, and computer program products for analyzing cardiovascular sounds using eigen functions Non-invasive methods for detecting arterial disease in vivo include obtaining acoustic signals from a sensor held on an external body region proximate an artery. A complex frequency grid of frequencies and associated lifetimes of the obtained acoustic signals is gen... | 11/24/2009 |
| 7615010 | System for monitoring the physiologic parameters of patients with congestive heart failure A telemetric sensing system for monitoring physiological parameters for diagnosis and treatment of congestive heart failure in a patient. This system includes one or more implantable sensing devices implanted in a cavity of the patient's cardiovascular system, and a... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7582060 | Diagnosing peripheral vascular disease by monitoring oxygen saturation changes during a hyperemia phase Peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed through measurements of oxygen saturation. In a specific implementation, peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed based on changes in oxygen saturation in tissue. Ischemia is induced, and then measurements of changes in oxyge... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7569017 | Diagnosing peripheral vascular disease by monitoring oxygen saturation changes during an ischemia phase Peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed through measurements of oxygen saturation. In a specific implementation, peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed based on changes in oxygen saturation in tissue. Ischemia is induced, and then measurements of changes in oxyge... | 08/04/2009 |
| 7553285 | Diagnosing peripheral vascular disease by monitoring oxygen saturation changes during an accumulation phase Peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed through measurements of oxygen saturation. In a specific implementation, peripheral vascular disease is diagnosed based on changes in oxygen saturation in tissue. Ischemia is induced, and measurements of changes in oxygen sat... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7507206 | Stress reducer The present invention combines into a single housing a multiplicity of features that may be used separately or together to facilitate stress reduction in the user. A central computer receives inputs and sends signals to facilitate activation of a visual display as w... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7481770 | Method and system for tissue differentiation A system and method for tissue differentiation. In the method, M acoustic signals si(t), i=1 to M, are obtained from M locations on a body surface. The N signals are subjected to band pass filtering using N band-pass filters, so as to generate NXM signals... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7468034 | Biological information monitoring apparatus A biological information monitoring apparatus highly precisely observes a clothed subject who is taking any desired posture. The apparatus acquires information on positional displacements of the surface of a living body, by generating a high-frequency electromagneti... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7442169 | Methods of distinguishing between vasoconstriction and vasodilation as a cause of hypotension The present invention relates to the use of the arterial pressure waveform recorded invasively or non-invasively, to distinguish between compensatory vasoconstriction with low cardiac output on the one hand from vasodilation from more severe organ damage on the othe... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438688 | Apparatus and method for measuring pulse rate In an apparatus adapted to measure a pulse rate of a subject, a plurality of band pass filters, each of which has a center frequency that is different from the others are provided. The band pass filters are connected in parallel to one another so as to be adapted to... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7435220 | Monitoring, system for cardiac surgical operations with cardiopulmonary bypass A monitoring system for cardiac operations with cardiopulmonary bypass comprising: a processor operatively connected to a heart-lung machine; a pump flow detecting device connected to a pump of the heart-lung machine to continuously measure the pump flow value and s... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7422560 | Detection of congestion from monitoring patient response to a recumbent position Systems and methods obtain information that allows detection of whether a patient suffers from congestion by monitoring a response of the patient to a recumbent position of the patient's body. The patient may be monitored to determine a respiration pattern for a non... | 09/09/2008 |
| RE40470 | Body function measuring apparatus Body function measuring apparatus which provides: (1) an indication of the body function being measured, and (2) a loose probe condition by determining that the difference between the rate of change of a first body function signal, developed by a first sensor in the... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7413545 | Method of calculating circulation dynamics of a living body In a method of calculating circulation dynamics of a living body, a resistance component corresponding to a shape of a blood vessel in the living body is derived using previously obtained values of viscosity, pressure and flow rate of blood flowing in the blood vess... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7410465 | Devices for counteracting hypotension Devices and methods are disclosed to address blood pressure control. More particularly, the present invention relates to correction of transient low blood pressure. ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407484 | Physiological monitoring system for a computational device of a human subject A system for monitoring at least one physiological parameter of a human subject. The system of the present invention features a device with which the human subject regularly interacts, and which is connected to the computational device of the human subject for autom... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7407486 | Method and an apparatus for pulse plethysmograph based detection of nociception during anesthesia or sedation The invention concerns a method and an apparatus for monitoring a condition of a patient under anesthesia or sedation. For this purpose there is a sensor for acquiring a signal that represents peripheral cardiovascular flow in the patient. Successive heart beat puls... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7397937 | Region growing in anatomical images A region-growing method for identifying nodules in an anatomical volume segments a 3-D image volume by controlled voxel growth from seed points. The process is based on creation and use of a distance map for tracking the distance of vessel voxels from a predetermine... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7393328 | Physical condition monitoring system A microcomputer included in a physical condition monitoring system calculates the amount of autonomic nerve activity during sleep based on physical information during sleep collected by a physical information collecting device 1. The physical information cont... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7384395 | Detection of congestion from monitoring patient response to a recumbent position Systems and methods obtain information that allows detection of whether a patient suffers from congestion by monitoring a response of the patient to a recumbent position of the patient's body. The patient may be monitored to determine a respiration pattern for a non... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7384398 | Device and method for detecting abnormal situations The invention concerns a device for detecting abnormal situations, in particular falls, in a living being, comprising means generating an alarm signal representing an abnormal situation, based on analysis of at least an activity information and, at least in some cas... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7374539 | Method and apparatus for predicting material hypertension during pregnancy using coherence analysis of material and fetal blood velocity waveforms An embodiment of a method of predicting maternal hypertension during pregnancy is disclosed. The method may include measuring a maternal blood velocity waveform and measuring a fetal blood velocity waveform. The method may further include the calculation of a cohere... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374541 | System for determining endothelial dependent vasoactivity A method of determining endothelial dependent vasoactivity of a subject, the method is effected by recording pressure-related signals of a plurality of locations adjacent to at least one blood vessel; extracting at least one parameter from the pressure-related signa... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7374540 | Non-invasive probe for detecting medical conditions A non-invasive probe for application to a body part, such as a finger, toe or limb, for the detection of a medical condition of the subject includes a housing defining a compartment closed at one end and open at the opposite end for receiving the distal end of the s... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7372778 | Pulsometer worn on wrist and associated control method The invention proposes a pulsometer (10) comprising a case (14) which contains an electronic optical pulse measuring device (18) and an electronic circuit, a tightening wristband (16) which holds the back cover of the case (14) pre... | 05/13/2008 |
