26th week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 63 |
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20210202035 | STRATEGIES FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT IDENTIFICATION AND DETECTION OF POLYMORPHISMS - The invention relates to a method for identifying one or more polymorphisms in nucleic acid samples, comprising: (a) performing a reproducible complexity reduction on a plurality of nucleic acid samples to provide a plurality of libraries of the nucleic acid samples comprising amplified fragments, wherein the reproducible complexity reduction comprises amplifying fragments of the nucleic acid samples using one or more primers to obtain the amplified fragments, and wherein the amplified fragments in each library comprise a unique identifier sequence to indicate origin of each library obtained by the reproducible complexity reduction; (b) combining the plurality of libraries to obtain a combined library and sequencing at least a portion of the combined library to obtain sequences; (c) aligning the sequences to obtain an alignment; and (d) identifying one or more polymorphisms in the plurality of nucleic acid samples. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202036 | Hardware Acceleration of Short Read Mapping for Genomic and Other Types of Analyses - A scalable FPGA-based solution to the short read mapping problem in DNA sequencing is disclosed which greatly accelerates the task of aligning short length reads to a known reference genome. A representative system comprises one or more memory circuits storing a plurality of short reads and a reference genome sequence; and one or more field programmable gate arrays configured to select a short read; to extract a plurality of seeds from the short read, each seed comprising a genetic subsequence of the short read; for each seed, to determine at least one candidate alignment location (CAL) in the reference genome sequence to form a plurality of CALs; for each CAL, to determine a likelihood of the short read matching the reference genome sequence in the vicinity of the CAL; and to select one or more CALs having the currently greater likelihood of the short read matching the reference genome sequence. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202037 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENOMIC AND GENETIC ANALYSIS - The present invention relates to a method for genomic and/or genetic analysis of a human nucleic acid sample, the method comprising the steps of providing a group of human reference genomes; testing of the human nucleic acid sample for sex and/or ancestry; selecting one or more population-specific human reference genomes, PHREGs, from the group of human reference genomes on the basis on the results of the sex and/or ancestry test; and aligning the human nucleic acid sample to the selected PHREGs; and variant calling against the selected PHREGs. The present invention also provides respective computer systems and computer programs. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202038 | Memory Allocation to Optimize Computer Operations of Seeding for Burrows Wheeler Alignment - In accordance with embodiments, a processing unit receives a count table and an occurrence table for a reference sequence generated using a Burrows Wheeler Transform (BWT) algorithm. The reference sequence comprises a sequence of base pairs (bps). The processing unit stores a first part of the occurrence table in a first type of memory. The size of the first part of the occurrence table is determined based on a size of the first type of memory and a first number of bps of short reads (SRs) to be processed using the first type of memory. The processing unit receives a short read (SR) of a sample sequence. The SR comprises the first number of bps and a second number of bps. The processing unit performs alignment of the short read (SR) against the reference sequence using the count table and the occurrence table. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202039 | METHOD FOR DESIGNING OPTIMIZED MUTANT PROTEIN SEQUENCE USING AMINO ACID COEVOLUTIONARY INFORMATION - The present invention relates to a method for designing an optimized mutant protein sequence using amino acid co-evolutionary information. Specifically, the present invention relates to a method for searching a protein having a novel mutant sequence with improved expression level, water solubility, stability, and functionality, while maintaining the original function of the protein, using amino acid co-evolutionary information and information on protein tertiary structure. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202040 | METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING AND CLASSIFYING SAMPLE MICROORGANISMS - The present invention relates to a method for identifying and classifying microorganisms included in a sample by using an exact k-mer matching algorithm and a bacterial core gene and, preferably, can more quickly and more accurately analyze the taxonomic composition of a metagenomic sample without bias. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202041 | PROTEIN HOMOLOG DISCOVERY - The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, protein homolog discovery methods for enhanced co-evolution-based protein structure prediction. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202042 | INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION PROCESSING METHOD OF CARBONATE RESERVOIR AND INFORMATION DATA PROCESSING TERMINAL - An information classification processing method of a carbonate reservoir and an information data processing terminal. The method includes: determining rock types; determining reservoir types on the basis of different rock types; and in accordance with the determined reservoir and rock types, performing porosity and permeability intersection by utilizing measured data; fitting a curve to obtain a porosity-permeability relation formula; and calculating permeability by utilizing the formula. According to the present invention, complex carbonate reservoirs in the Middle East can be classified, and porosity-permeability relations are respectively established, thereby increasing interpretation accuracy of permeability. According to the present invention, the reservoir types and the rock types can be rapidly and systematically classified, and clear porosity-permeability relations are obtained, so that interpretation of the permeability in oil reservoir exploitation is more accurate. The system has been applied to Halfaya Oilfield in Iraq of Middle East. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202043 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY COMPLEX (MHC)-PEPTIDE BINDING PREDICTION OF NEOEPITOPES USING A RECURRENT NEURAL NETWORK ENCODER AND ATTENTION WEIGHTING - Techniques are provided for predicting MHC-peptide binding affinity. A plurality of training peptide sequences is obtained, and a neural network model is trained to predict MHC-peptide binding affinity using the training peptide sequences. An encoder of the neural network model comprising an RNN is configured to process an input training peptide sequence to generate a fixed-dimension encoding output by applying a final hidden state of the RNN at intermediate state outputs of the RNN to generate attention weighted outputs, and linearly combining the attention weighted outputs. A fully connected layer following the encoder is configured to process the fixed-dimension encoding output to generate an MHC-peptide binding affinity prediction output. A computing device is configured to use the trained neural network to predict MHC-peptide binding affinity for a test peptide sequence. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202044 | METHODS FOR COMPRESSION OF MOLECULAR TAGGED NUCLEIC ACID SEQUENCE DATA - A method for compressing molecular tagged sequence data includes: grouping sequence reads associated with a molecular tag sequence to form a family of sequence reads, corresponding vectors of flow space signal measurements and corresponding sequence alignments, calculating an arithmetic mean of the corresponding vectors of flow space signal measurements to form a vector of consensus flow space signal measurements, calculating a standard deviation of the corresponding vectors of flow space signal measurements to form a vector of standard deviations, determining a consensus base sequence based on the vector of consensus flow space signal measurements, determining a consensus sequence alignment and generating a compressed data structure comprising consensus compressed data, the consensus compressed data including for each family, the consensus base sequence, the consensus sequence alignment, the vector of consensus flow space signal measurements, the vector of standard deviations and the number of members. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202045 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR PHYSIOLOGICALLY INFORMED NETWORK SEARCHING - In an aspect, a system for physiologically informed network searching, includes a computing device designed and configured to receive a biological extraction from a user, input the biological extraction to an index classifier, the index classifier configured to input biological extractions and output web search indices, wherein the classifier is generated by executing a classification algorithm clustering a plurality of user physiological data records to a plurality of user cohort labels, output, from the index classifier, a physiologically linked web index, receive, from the user, a search query, and generate, using the physiologically linked web index and the search query, a ranked search result. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202046 | PREDICTIVE DETERMINATION OF EXCESS CHEMICAL POTENTIALS - Method for the predictive determination of an excess chemical potential including the following steps:
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20210202047 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR NEW DRUG CANDIDATE DISCOVERY - The present disclosure provides a new drug candidate material output apparatus, including: a communication module; a memory in which a new drug candidate material output program is stored; and a processor executing the new drug candidate material output program. The new drug candidate material output program provides a drug learning model in which an embedding vector for a chemical structure of a chemical compound and an embedding vector for change information on an amount of a transcriptome induced by each chemical compound are located in a same vector space, outputs a result of the change information on the amount of the transcriptome that matches the embedding vector for the chemical structure of the new material input to the drug learning model, or outputs information on one or more drugs that match the change information on the amount of the transcriptome that is a target input to the drug learning model. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202048 | METHOD FOR GENERATING COMPOUND STRUCTURE, PROGRAM FOR GENERATING COMPOUND STRUCTURE, AND DEVICE FOR GENERATING COMPOUND STRUCTURE - The present invention provides a method for generating a compound structure, a program for generating a compound structure, and a device for generating a compound structure, which are capable of acquiring a modified compound structure having synthetic aptitude. The method for generating a compound structure includes: (A) a step of preparing a standard compound database for evaluating a synthetic aptitude, and a compound structure; (B) a step of selecting any one of an addition of an atom or an atomic group to the compound structure, or a deletion of an atom or an atomic group from the compound structure; (C) a step of, in a case of selecting the addition of an atom or an atomic group to the compound structure, bonding a new atom or a new atomic group to an atom selected from atoms included in the compound structure, or in a case of selecting the deletion an atom or an atomic group from the compound structure, deleting an selected atom or atomic group from the atoms included in the compound structure, thereby obtaining a modified compound structure; (D) a step of determining a synthetic aptitude of the modified compound structure based on information of the compound database; (E) a step of, in a case where the modified compound structure has the synthetic aptitude, probabilistically accepting the modification, or in a case where the modified compound structure does not have the synthetic aptitude, probabilistically rejecting the modification; and (F) a step of repeating the steps (B) to (E) until the compound structure which has undergone the step (E) satisfies a termination condition. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202049 | DRUG-SCREENING SYSTEM AND DRUG-SCREENING METHOD - A drug-screening system includes an encoding module, a candidate-drug generating module and a drug-ranking module. The encoding module is configured to encode a drug expression and at least one drug-ranking indicator to generate a first encoding variable. The candidate-drug generating module is configured to train a generative adversarial network according to the first encoding variable to generate a plurality of candidate drugs, wherein each of the candidate drugs has a generative drug expression and at least one generative drug-ranking indicator. The drug-ranking module is configured to rank strengths of the candidate drugs according to the generative drug-ranking indicator of each of the candidate drugs. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202050 | METHOD FOR CALCULATING THICKNESS OF OXIDE FILM OF MARTENSITE HEAT-RESISTANT STEEL UNDER SUPERCRITICAL HIGH-TEMPERATURE STEAM - A method for calculating a thickness of an oxide film of a martensite heat-resistant steel under supercritical high-temperature steam is disclosed, which includes following steps: the martensite heat-resistant steel is a 9% Cr martensite heat-resistant steel; and a formula for calculating the thickness of the oxide film is | 2021-07-01 |
20210202051 | EXTENDING PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE INTO COMMUNITY-BASED SETTINGS - The present invention is generally related to a digital health platform useful in improving health care outcomes for the underserved population. More specifically, the present invention provides an inexpensive method and a system based on a digital health platform to connect “unreachable” Medicaid members, who are prone to become costlier “super-utilizer” patients, to preventive health care by their respective care management teams. The front end of the digital health platform of the present invention consists of a client management tool used at the community-based organizations. At the back end, this digital health platform links consenting Medicaid members identified at community-based organizations to their respective health care organizations for preventive health care | 2021-07-01 |
20210202052 | PATIENT SAFETY USING VIRTUAL OBSERVATION - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for improving patient safety using virtual observation. A falls risk assessment and a patient safety risk assessment are initially provided within an electronic health record of a patient. A clinician is prompted at a clinician device to provide input to the falls risk assessment and the patient safety risk assessment for the patient. Based on the input, a safety assessment score is determined for the patient. The safety assessment score is provided to the clinician via the clinician device and the clinician is prompted to initiate an order to place a camera in the room of the patient. Based on the order, a virtual sitter may be assigned to the patient to monitor the camera. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202053 | INTELLIGENTLY LINKING PAYER/HEALTH PLAN COMBINATIONS TO SPECIFIC EMPLOYERS - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing machine learning to verify payers and/or health plans. HIPAA transactions can be utilized to train a machine learning model to intelligently link payers and/or health plans to specific employers. Initially, transaction data is received from electronic data interchange (EDI) insurance transactions. The transaction data comprises data corresponding to a plurality of employers, a plurality of payers, and a plurality of health plans provided by the plurality of payers. A machine learning model is trained with the transaction data to build a mapping of the plurality of employers, the plurality of payers contracted with each employer of the plurality of employers, and the plurality of health plans provided by the plurality of payers for each employer of the plurality of employers. The machine learning model is utilized to verify the scan data is mapped in accordance with the mapping. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202054 | HOSPITAL BED HAVING WIRELESS NETWORK CONNECTIVITY - A system that monitors various conditions of a plurality of hospital beds located in different rooms of a healthcare facility is provided. Alternatively or additionally, other types of equipment may be monitored by the system. Various configurations of network interface units that are coupleable to or integrated into a hospital bed are also disclosed. The system receives data from the hospital beds and/or other equipment and initiates a communication to a wireless communication device of at least one designated caregiver in response to the received data being indicative of an alarm condition. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202055 | Learning Interpretable Strategies in the Presence of Existing Domain Knowledge - A mechanism computes a discounted health variable with a penalty for deviating from clinical guidelines based on a distance function representing an allowed deviation from the clinical guidelines, applies reinforcement learning techniques on the discounted health variable to generate a reinforcement learning (RL) model for generating dynamic treatment regimes, and determines, for a patient for a plurality of times, a next action in a treatment regime using the RL model with no distance function, an optimal next action in the treatment regime with allowed deviation from the guidelines, and a next action in the treatment regime that adheres to the guidelines. The mechanism generates an outcome output display based on the determined next action in a treatment regime using the RL model with no distance function, optimal next action in the treatment regime with allowed deviation from the guidelines, and next action in the treatment regime that adheres to the guidelines. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202056 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING A MEDICAL SUPPLY CHAIN - The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for managing a medical supply chain. According to one aspect, a remote medical management environment can include a medical management system intermediary to a plurality of patients and a plurality of medical care providers. The medical management system can communicate with medical dispensing devices configured to dispense medication to patients. Further, the medical management system can communicate with provider devices through which medical care providers can provide information regarding services provided to users or instructions associated with medication use. The medical management system can detect medication supply events based on information communicated by the medical dispensing devices and/or provider devices or based on information stored at the medical management system. Upon detecting a supply/refill event, the medical management system can initiate a supply refill process for supplying medication or medical device(s) to a patient. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202057 | MEDICATION DELIVERY MANAGEMENT - The disclosed system identifies a preparation status of a first and second medication. Based on the delivery time and the completion time for the second medication, the system determines whether the first medication should be delivered prior to delivering the second medication and, when determining that the second medication should delivered prior to delivering the first medication, a notification to deliver the second medication before delivering the first medication is sent to a display device. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202058 | METHOD, MOBILE DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUM FOR VACCINE ADMINISTRATION REMINDING - A vaccine administration reminding method includes the steps of providing a vaccination reminder message to a user of a mobile device according to a vaccine administration receiver's birth date, displaying a list of potential hospitals according to a user behavior of the user on the mobile device, and recording a vaccination hospital selected by the user from the list. The user behavior may include browsing a web page of the vaccination hospital on the mobile device or dialing a telephone number of the vaccination hospital on the mobile device. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202059 | DISPOSABLE INFUSION FLUID DELIVERY DEVICE FOR PROGRAMMABLE LARGE VOLUME DRUG DELIVERY - A disposable electronically controlled infusion pump system includes at least one disposable infusion container and at least one disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system. The at least one disposable infusion container is configured to contain infusion fluid. The at least one disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system is fluidly connected to the at least one disposable infusion container. The disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system includes an infusion channel, a disposable electronically controlled micropump, and valves, but may further include a microprocessor, a memory, a battery or power receiver configured to wirelessly receive power, a wireless communication device, and other components. The memory is in electronic communication with the microprocessor. The wireless communication device is configured to receive a wireless signal which wirelessly controls the disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system. The disposable electronically controlled micropump is configured to pump the infusion fluid through the infusion channel. The valves are connected to the infusion channel. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202060 | APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR TRACKING ADMINISTERING OF MEDICATION BY MEDICATION INJECTION DEVICES - A medication injection device including a plunger, a temperature sensor, an antenna, and a controller is described herein. The plunger is configured to dispense medication. The temperature sensor is to measure a temperature representative of an ambient temperature of the medication injection device. The antenna is to pair the medication injection device with a remote device. The controller includes logic that when executed causes the medication injection device to perform operations, including placing the medication injection device into a low-power sleep mode, measuring the temperature with the temperature sensor at a regular interval while the medication injection in the low-power sleep mode, detecting a temperature change with the temperature sensor while in the low-power sleep mode, transitioning the medication injection device into an initialization mode in response, and pairing the medication injection device with the remote device using the antenna while in the initialization mode. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202061 | SYNCHRONIZING PHYSIOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT DATA STREAMS - There is provided a method in a collector device of a physiological performance measurement system, which includes: broadcasting a timing signal on a predetermined radio channel; receiving a data packet from each of a plurality of peripheral devices configured to perform measurements with respect to one or more users and to transmit physiological measurement data on the one or more users to the collector device, wherein the data packet indicates a clock value of the respective peripheral device as a response to the broadcasting the timing signal; and synchronizing data streams from the plurality of peripheral devices with each other based on the indicated clock values. A respective method is described for the peripheral device. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202062 | MULTI-AXIS MOTOR POSITION COMPENSATION IN OPHTHALMIC SURGICAL LASER SYSTEM USING DEEP LEARNING - A motor position compensation method for an ophthalmic surgical laser system employs a deep artificial neural network to characterize motor following errors of the motors of the system. The artificial neural network is trained using a large number of commanded motor positions and corresponding measured actual motor positions (measured by encoders associated with the motors) as training data, to obtain a trained artificial neural network that can predict the actual motor position for any commanded motor position. Before executing a treatment scan, the original commanded motor positions calculated from the intended scan pattern are inputted to the trained artificial neural network to predict the actual motor positions, and the predicted actual motor positions are used to adjust the original commanded motor positions. The adjusted commanded motor positions are then used to perform the treatment scan, which produces an actual scan pattern that more closely match the intended scan pattern. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202063 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR SURGICAL SMOKE MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for detecting, characterizing, and addressing surgical smoke are disclosed. In some embodiments, a surgical system receives image data representing an image of a surgical environment and generates sets of values based on the received image. The sets of values may include representations of atmospheric light in the image and representations of contrast values in the image. The system may determine from the sets of values whether predetermined smoke severity criteria are met, and may responsively automatically engage and/or disengage one or more surgical devices, such as a surgical smoke evacuation system and/or an image processing system (e.g., a video enhancement feature) configured to improve quality of smoky surgical images. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202064 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR INFORMING PRODUCT DECISIONS - A system for informing product decisions. The system includes a computing device configured to locate an article of interest for a user. The computing device is configured to receive a user biological extraction. The computing device is configured to generate using ingredient training data and a classification algorithm an ingredient metabolic classifier. The ingredient metabolic classifier inputs a user biological extraction and outputs an ingredient metabolic profile. The computing device identifies at least an ingredient contained within an article of interest. The computing device determines the tolerability of an article of interest as a function of a metabolic profile and at least an ingredient contained within an article of interest. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202065 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR IMPROVED THERAPY DELIVERY AND MONITORING - A computer-implemented method is provided for taking one or more action relating to therapy. The method comprising: receiving text data relating to a therapy session between a therapist and a patient; dividing the text data into a plurality of utterances; assigning a semantic representation to each of the plurality of utterances to produce a plurality of assigned utterances; aggregating the plurality of assigned utterances to form a representation of the therapy session; providing an output prediction, based on the representation of the therapy session and optionally one or more further input, of one or more characteristic of at least one of the patient, the therapist and the therapy; taking one or more action relating to the therapy, wherein the one or more action is selected based on the output prediction meeting a predetermined criterion. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202066 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ASSISTING INDIVIDUALS IN A BEHAVIORAL-CHANGE PROGRAM - Methods and systems of enhancing an electronic interaction between a behavioral-modification program and a user in the program by providing customized content specific to the user. The systems and methods allow for coach-counselor assistance to the individual-user or for automated content delivery. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202067 | DYNAMIC AND ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REWARDING AND/OR DISINCENTIVIZING BEHAVIORS - The present disclosure generally relates to dynamic and adaptive systems and methods for rewarding and/or disincentivizing behaviors. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202068 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PRE-ACTION TRAINING AND CONTROL - A system for improving physical motor control of affected human extremities and related cognitive and nervous system processes improvement includes a computer device having a display device and an input device each disposed in communication with the computer device. The computer device is configured to display to a user at least one virtual body part that represents a corresponding body part portion of the user requiring improvement. The virtual body part(s) is shown in a first configuration on the display device. The computer device receives user input that causes the virtual body part(s) to move in a user-directed motion. The computer device displays the user-directed motion of the virtual body part to a second configuration based on the user input. The user repeats the user input to cause improvement of physical motor control of the corresponding body part of the user. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202069 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING A GUIDED WORKFLOW THROUGH A SERIES OF ULTRASOUND IMAGE ACQUISITIONS WITH REFERENCE IMAGES UPDATED BASED ON A DETERMINED ANATOMICAL POSITION - A system and method for providing a guided workflow through a series of ultrasound image acquisitions with reference images updated based on a determined anatomical position is provided. The method includes acquiring and displaying, by an ultrasound system, at least one ultrasound image of an anatomy. The method includes determining, by at least one processor, a position of the anatomy depicted in the at least one ultrasound image. The method includes automatically selecting and displaying, by the at least one processor, reference images corresponding to pre-defined views of an ultrasound examination. An orientation of anatomy depicted in the selected and displayed reference images is based on the determined position of the anatomy. The method includes acquiring and displaying, by the ultrasound system, additional ultrasound images of the anatomy corresponding to the selected and displayed reference images. The additional ultrasound images include pre-defined views of the ultrasound examination. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202070 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS - A medical information processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured: to register first relevance information relevant to a first trained model to be newly generated; to calculate, with respect to each of a plurality of second trained models being existing trained models, a similarity degree between second relevance information relevant to the second trained model and the first relevance information; to calculate a data quantity required to generate the first trained model with respect to each of the plurality of second trained models, on the basis of the similarity degrees each corresponding to a different one of the plurality of second trained models; and to output the data quantity required to generate the first trained model with respect to each of the plurality of second trained models. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202071 | TASK ASSIGNMENT SUPPORTING APPARATUS, TASK ASSIGNMENT SUPPORTING SYSTEM, AND TASK ASSIGNMENT SUPPORTING METHOD - According to one embodiment, a task assignment supporting apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry manages types of image reading preferences indicating types of image reading tasks preferred by each radiologist. The processing circuitry acquires an image reading order and a type of image reading order indicating a type of image reading task required for the image reading order. The processing circuitry assigns to the image reading order a radiologist with a type of image reading preference corresponding to the type of image reading order. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202072 | MEDICAL IMAGE DIAGNOSIS ASSISTANCE APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING USER-PREFERRED STYLE BASED ON MEDICAL ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK - Disclosed herein is an artificial neural network-based medical image diagnosis assistance apparatus for assisting in diagnosing a medical image based on a medical artificial neural network. A medical image diagnosis assistance apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a computing system, and the computing system includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to acquire or receive a first analysis result obtained through the inference of a first artificial neural network about a first medical image, to detect user feedback on the first analysis result input by a user, to determine whether the first analysis result and the user feedback satisfy training conditions, and to transfer the first analysis result and the user feedback satisfying the training conditions to a style learning model so that the style learning model is trained on the first analysis result and the user feedback. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202073 | COMPUTER IMPLEMENTED METHOD FOR CONVERTING A HIGH-RESOLUTION DIGITAL IMAGE INTO A DICOM PYRAMIDAL IMAGE - The invention discloses a method for converting a high-resolution digital image into a DICOM pyramidal image. More specifically, the method converts an image having a fixed width (W) and a fixed length (L) into a DICOM pyramidal image comprising a desired number of DICOM instances (n | 2021-07-01 |
20210202074 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING BRAIN IMAGES - The present invention relates to a novel methodology for the field of brain images from Positron Emission Tomography (PET), likewise applicable to brain images from Single-Photon Emission Computer Tomography (SPECT) or another technique that makes it possible to generate images of brain metabolism, function or blood flow. This methodology arises from the need to improve the medical diagnosis of neurological disorders and from the need for objective, unbiased quantification of brain metabolism. The method is based on the spatial symmetry of the metabolism of the healthy human brain. Under this assumption, the entire healthy brain metabolism can be deduced from the metabolism of a single hemisphere of the brain. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202075 | REVENUE CYCLE WORKFORCE MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing system diagnostics focused in areas of disruption to improve inventory and workforce management in a revenue cycle management system. Inventory input is received from a revenue cycle management system. The inventory input includes inventory in the revenue cycle management system, types of claims in the inventory, pair agreements of the claims, and a length of time the claims have been in the inventory. Workforce input is also received from the revenue cycle management system. The workforce input includes experience, type of education or technical training, specialty, and outcomes corresponding to a workforce of the client. A portion of the inventory is automatically assigned to an associate of the workforce. The portion of the inventory tailored to the associate based on the inventory input and the workforce input. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202076 | ANALYZING CLINICAL PATHWAYS - Methods and systems for studying clinical pathways. Methods and systems described herein implement a two-stage clustering approach for learning clinical pathways. A first clustering procedure is executed on patient data to sort the data into clusters based on clinical path structure. Then a second clustering procedure is executed on the data based on the combination of clinical path structure and relevant contextual variables that affect clinical pathways. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202077 | REVENUE CYCLE INVENTORY MANAGEMENT - Methods, computer systems, and computer storage media are provided for utilizing system diagnostics focused in areas of disruption to improve inventory and workforce management in a revenue cycle management system. Diagnostic data is utilized to automatically identify disruptions in the revenue cycle management system across a plurality of clients. The disruptions are automatically ranked based on an impact to the revenue cycle management system and a time required to execute a correction for each disruption. A recommendation is provided for the client to execute the correction for each disruption. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202078 | Patient-Observer Monitoring - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for patient-observer monitoring are provided herein. A method creates a reference model based on interaction data of previous patient-observers. The method determines an optimal value for alertness based on the reference model. The method detects interaction data for a particular patient-observer. The method calculates an alertness value for the particular patient-observer. The method generates a warning when the calculated alertness value does not satisfy the optimal value. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202079 | Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Process Control, Support and Analysis - A computer apparatus and computer-implemented process for generating a batch record (BR) from a master batch record (MBR) during manufacture of a batch of pharmaceutical product. In the control software, a graphical analysis interface is provided for processing graphs of spectroscopic or chromatographic analysis. A group of fields in the MBR is assigned to the analysis. The operator wears an augmented reality headset and uses this to capture an image of a graph from an instrument display. The graph image is then processed to extract the graph and its metadata, and then further processed to find peaks and assign attribute labels to the peaks, and thus populate the analysis fields. Overlay images are then transmitted to AR headset to present to the operator the populated analysis fields. The operator then accepts or rejects the populated analysis fields by issuing user interface commands. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202080 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MANAGING FUTURE RADIOLOGY ORDERS - Computerized systems and methods are provided for managing future radiology orders for multiple facilities. The systems and methods can include detecting a location identifier for each future radiology order, and in response to detecting the location identifier, determining a specific radiology facility for that location identifier. The respective future radiology orders can then be provided to the intended radiology facility. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202081 | CUSTOMIZATION OF POPULATION MANAGEMENT - Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for customization of management of population health. A population tracking builder application is provided as a single application that allows users to completely customize population management. In particular, populations may be added or changed, algorithms for monitoring the populations may be added or changed to meet a user's needs or completely removed, specific variables of algorithms may be edited, and the like. This provides user's flexibility to customize population management tools at any time. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202082 | Remote View Playback Tool - A remote view playback system for use by medical practitioners to improve patient outcomes, including a patient database and data storage engine including means for collecting and storing data from any number of electronic devices and instructions for transmitting data to any number of electronic devices and for storing data associated with the patient records and/or data to be stored as quality data; a communication hub for collecting, agnostically, data from any number of electronic devices and instructions for transmitting data to any number of electronic devices, and for storing data associated with the patient records to be stored as quality data, and providing access to all data, so that data from multiple disparate sources can be acquired and consolidated within a unified view; optionally, at least one monitoring station; and a user interface rules engine to collect, store and process data in real time, compose views that organize data, notify end-users based on execution steps defined by end-users, display an organized view of data within a timeline of events, change, for end-users, or augment the execution steps, provide notifications at the same time the end-user is reviewing data, and apply one or more rules to the data selected from assessment data from each monitored patient to determine whether a rule for that monitor has been violated or whether best practice rules established by a health care provider are being adhered to as expected. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202083 | INTEGRATION OF A POINT-OF-CARE BLOOD ANALYZER INTO A PREHOSPITAL TELEMEDICINE SYSTEM - A prehospital telemedicine system comprises a physiologic monitor; an electronic patient care reporting system (ePCR) system; and a point-of-care blood analyzer communicatively coupled to the physiologic monitor and the ePCR system. The point-of-care blood analyzer is configured to perform an analysis of a blood sample based on an indication of a need for a specific blood analysis provided by one of the physiologic monitor and the ePCR system, and to automatically transmit a result of the analysis to a remote data receiving system. The indication of a need for a specific blood analysis may be based upon any one of the following: vital signs data obtained for a patient by the physiologic monitor; and/or current documentation or past medical history captured on or available through the ePCR system. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202084 | TRACKING USAGE OF A PULSE OXIMETER VIA A NETWORK SYSTEM - A method for tracking usage of a pulse oximeter via a network system comprising: uploading a patient information with corresponding pulse oximeter identification data to a network server; connecting the pulse oximeter to a patient monitoring device; acquiring the connected pulse oximeter identification data and status data via the patient monitoring device; acquiring and storing pulse oximeter data using the connected pulse oximeter; transmitting the acquired pulse oximeter data, the acquired pulse oximeter identification data, and the acquired status data to the network server; matching the transmitted pulse oximeter identification data with the uploaded pulse oximeter identification data stored in the network server; and associating the transmitted pulse oximeter data to the patient information. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202085 | APPARATUS FOR AUTOMATICALLY TRIAGING PATIENT AND AUTOMATIC TRIAGE METHOD - The present application discloses an apparatus for automatically triaging a patient. The apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive patient information of the patient from a terminal; a feature extractor configured to extract feature information from the patient information; a selector configured to provide a recommendation on a hospital and a department of the hospital for treating the patient based on the feature information extracted by the feature extractor, and a transmitter configured to transmit the recommendation to the terminal. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202086 | SYSTEM, METHOD, AND APPARATUS FOR COLLECTING AND ANALYZING PHYSIOLOGIC, MEDICAL, AND PSYCHOMETRIC DATA IN SUPPORT OF CLINICAL DECISION MAKING - Systems, methods, and apparatuses for remote patient monitoring (RPM) and/or care management of patients outside of a medical facility are provided. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can act as a middleware-type connection between instruments used by patients, medical facility records management systems, and healthcare provider record management systems. The systems, methods, and apparatuses can accept data in any applicable format from instruments used by a patient outside the medical facility. The data can be standardized, integrated based on time, relevancy, and reliability, and provided to a database. The data can be provided to a dashboard for monitoring, allowing healthcare providers to monitor the levels of patients remotely with relative ease, even when the patients are not in a medical facility. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202087 | Remote communication portal, system and method of use - The invention is a remote electronic communication system and method of use, providing means of real-time, full-body video and audio while a variety of sensors or measurement devices read and communicate electronic data to one or all participants. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202088 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CUSTOMIZING TREATMENTS - A system for customizing treatments. The system includes a computing device configured to record a user biological extraction containing an element of user physiological data. The computing device is configured to receive condition state training data and generate a condition state model utilizing a first machine-learning algorithm. The computing device is configured to calculate a condition state label using the condition state model. The computing device is configured to select a treatment model utilizing the condition state label. The computing device is configured to generate a treatment model and output a plurality of treatments utilizing the treatment model. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202089 | MEDICAL IMAGE RECOGNITION SYSTEM AND MEDICAL IMAGE RECOGNITION METHOD - The medical image recognition method includes the following steps: transmitting an accession number to a recognition module through a prediction unit; receiving an accession number and a human body image by a recognition model, and importing the human body image into a set of neural network models respectively; wherein each of the neural network models outputs at least one recognition result; the recognition module returns the recognition results to the prediction unit, and then the recognition results are stored in database. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202090 | AUTOMATED HEALTH CONDITION SCORING IN TELEHEALTH ENCOUNTERS - A system for automated health condition scoring includes at least one communication interface to receive an audio stream and a video stream from an endpoint in proximity to a patient, at least two different artificial intelligence (“Al”) detectors to respectively process one or both of the audio stream and the video stream using machine learning to automatically determine at least two respective likelihoods of the patient having a health condition, an Al scorer to combine the at least two respective likelihoods of the health condition using machine learning to automatically determine a health condition score representing an overall likelihood of the patient having the health condition, and a display interface that displays an indication of the health condition score to a physician. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202091 | TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFERRING A PATIENT CONDITION USING MACHINE LEARNING - A machine learning compute device may include circuitry configured to obtain sensor data from a product associated with a patient. The circuitry may also be configured to obtain response variable data indicative of an actual condition of the patient associated with the sensor data. Additionally, the circuitry may be configured to train, based on the response variable data and the sensor data, an inference model to infer the actual condition of the patient from the sensor data. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202092 | Efficient artificial intelligence analysis of radiographic images with combined predictive modeling - A system, an image analyzer and a method for diagnosing a presence of a disease or a condition in an image of a subject, for example, a veterinary patient, are provided including: classifying the image to a body region, and obtaining a classified, labeled, cropped, and oriented sub-image; directing the sub-image to artificial intelligence processor for obtaining an evaluation result, and comparing the evaluation result to a database library of evaluation results and matched written templates or a dataset cluster to obtain at least one cluster result; measuring the distance between the cluster result and the evaluation result to obtain at least one cluster diagnosis; and assembling the cluster diagnosis and the matched written templates to obtain a report to display the report to a radiologist. These system, analyzer and method are achieved in greatly reduced lengths of time and are useful for cost and time savings. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202093 | Intelligent Ecosystem - Systems, methods, and devices identify members of a cohort, as one example. In embodiments, medical professionals may seek to identify patents who suffer from, or are likely to suffer from, a condition, even if patients are not associated with a diagnoses or a recorded description of the condition, or medical professionals may seek to confirm the inclusion of members in a cohort. Embodiments include considering hypothetical factors that may indicate whether a patient has a condition, performing regression analyses to obtain a set of initial cohorts and likelihoods that they will experience the condition, and user interaction(s) to identify members, for example patients with a higher likelihood of developing a condition. Outputs include, in embodiments, treatment plans or updates for a patent such as medications or appointments, tests to be performed on physical samples, or input(s) for a manufacturing process, such as three-dimensional printing using biological or other materials. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202094 | USER INTERFACE FOR NAVIGATING THROUGH PHYSIOLOGICAL DATA - A system comprising a processor configured to: obtain physiological data acquired during a medical examination of a patient's body, the medical examination being conducted by a user using a sensor, wherein the user is not a medical practitioner; analyze the obtained physiological data to determine presence of diagnosis-enabling data, wherein the diagnosis-enabling data enables a diagnosing entity to later diagnose a medical condition of the patient; and provide at least the diagnosis-enabling data, if present, to the diagnosing entity, thereby enabling the diagnosing entity to diagnose the medical condition of the patient. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202095 | DECISION SUPPORT APPLICATION FOR PCOS - Aspects of the present disclosure determine a risk level of Polycystic Ovarian syndrome (“PCOS”). Alongside the risk level of PCOS, aspects of the present disclosure simultaneously display the risk level of PCOS with patient information, which may be useful for clinicians. Aspects include receiving patient information of a patient, determining a patient criteria is satisfied based on the patient information, and applying a predictive diagnosis model to the patient information to determine a risk level of PCOS. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202096 | METHOD AND SYSTEMS FOR SPEECH THERAPY COMPUTER-ASSISTED TRAINING AND REPOSITORY - A computerized system and method of improving a speech therapy process include receiving a signal representing an utterance spoken by the patient, determining a first score reflecting a correlation of the signal and a patient acoustic model, determining a second score reflecting a correlation of the signal and the reference acoustic model, determining a progress metric reflecting a difference between the first score and the second score and responsively providing in real-time an indication of progress to the patient, wherein the indication is presented in at least one of an audio and a visual manner. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202097 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING GESTATIONAL DIABETES MELLITUS RISK AND ASSIGNING WORKFLOWS - Computerized systems and methods are provided for determining the risk of developing gestation diabetes mellitus (GDM) and assigning workflows based on such a determination. The systems and methods can include receiving medical information associated with an individual, determining whether the individual is at risk of developing GDM based on the received medical information, and performing one or more response actions. The one or more response actions can include assigning a workflow for preventative treatment of GDM, providing a notification that the individual is at risk of GDM, or a combination thereof. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202098 | CREATION AND MANAGEMENT OF DIGITAL TWINS OF HEALTHCARE PATIENTS - Systems and methods are provided for creating and using healthcare patients' digital twins based on data related to a patient, and a plurality of patient populations, to monitor and manage healthcare services by forming a digital twin of individual patients based on their health information, where the digital twin of a patient is a digital representation of at least one health state of the patient. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202099 | MODELING AND PREDICTING INSURANCE REIMBURSEMENT FOR MEDICAL SERVICES - Systems and methods are provided for monitoring insurance billing events using patient data, healthcare services data, insurance reimbursement criteria and insurance reimbursement records to model and calculate an insurance reimbursement score for a future planned health service event using an analytic engine to calculate an insurance reimbursement score for a future planned health service event based at least in part on a comparison to a plurality of calculated insurance reimbursement scores. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202100 | IDENTIFICATION OF MEDICAL CODING INCONSISTENCIES - Systems and methods are provided for using a machine learning device to receive demographic records, diagnosis records, prescription records, and testing records from a plurality of healthcare databases, from a plurality of healthcare providers, to identify inconsistencies in the names and/or codes used by the healthcare providers. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202101 | DETECTION AND MODELING OF DRUG DISPENSING BEHAVIORS BY HEALTHCARE PROVIDERS - Systems and methods are provided for determining drug dispensing consistency based on using patient data from at least one healthcare provider that includes at least one of drug toxicology data, metabolite data, patient-reported symptoms, and patient prescriptions, computing relationships among the data, transmitting an enriched data set to a machine learning module, and using the machine learning module to analyze the enriched data set to determine if a patient metabolite reported in a toxicology test is consistent with a known patient prescription. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202102 | DETERMINING AND MODELING THE EFFICACY OF DRUG TREATMENT PLANS - Systems and methods are provided for simulating patient risk using patient data relating to a plurality of patients received from patient data providers, determining relationships among the data, receiving simulation instructions that are indicative of one or more drug treatment plans, and using a machine learning module to simulate the one or more drug treatment plans and evaluate the efficacy of the plans. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202103 | MODELING AND SIMULATION OF CURRENT AND FUTURE HEALTH STATES - Systems and methods are provided for simulating a patient health state by determining one or more relationships between patient data and historical data, creating enriched data elements based on the determined relationships, and using a machine learning module to compute a current health state for a patient and to simulate a future health state of the patient. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202104 | IDENTIFYING AND MEASURING PATIENT OVERDOSE RISK - Systems and methods are provided for identifying patient overdose risk using patient data including at least one of drug toxicology data, metabolite data, patient-reported symptoms, patient prescriptions, and patient adverse events, and using a machine learning module to compute a patient drug profile based on the patient data and at least one patient population drug profile and calculating an overdose risk score for a patient within the ingested patient data, wherein the overdose risk score is based at least in part on an association between a patient drug profile and a population drug profile. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202105 | IDENTIFICATION AND NOTIFICATION OF ABERRANT PRESCRIPTION ACTIVITY - Systems and methods are provided for relationship discovery of physician prescription behavior using patient data received from a plurality of healthcare data providers and physician data from a plurality of physician practices, determining one or more relationships between the patient data and physician data, wherein an enriched data set includes determined relationships with supplemental reference data, and generating an alert based at least in part on an indicator of aberrant prescription activity among the determined one or more relationships within the enriched data set. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202106 | DETECTION OF PATIENT MISUSE OF PRESCRIPTION MEDICATION - Systems and methods are provided for detecting a patient's misuse of a controlled medication of a patient using lab test results and patient attributes to generate a usage profile that is used to determine whether the usage profile is indicative of potential misuse of the controlled medication based on one or more features of the usage profile and, in response to determining potential misuse of the controlled medication, transmitting a notification that indicates the potential misuse by the patient. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202107 | HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT USING DIGITAL TWINS - Systems and methods are provided for healthcare data management using a machine learning module to determine patterns related to effects of health behaviors and treatments, forming digital twins of a patient and a population of patients, and presenting the digital twin of said individual patient, the digital twin of said population of patients, and data based on associations among the patient and health data and the patient population health data. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202108 | STATE ESTIMATION DEVICE, METHOD AND PROGRAM - In an embodiment of this invention, in a learning phase, a state estimation device acquires activity state data and biometric data at that time from user terminals of a plurality of users, generates a regression formula representing the relationship between the biometric data and the activity state data using a regression analysis method on the basis of these pieces of measurement data, and calculates a difference between the coefficients of the regression formula of all users and each user to generate a coefficient correction regression formula representing a relationship between the difference of the coefficient and an average value of the biometric data. In an estimation phase, the state estimation device acquires biometric data of a new user, corrects a coefficient value of an activity state estimation regression formula to a coefficient value for the new user on the basis of the average value of the biometric data and the coefficient correction regression formula, and estimates the activity state of the new user using the regression formula having the corrected coefficient. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202109 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME HEALTH DATA MANAGEMENT AND PREDICTION OF HEALTH TRENDS FOR PATIENTS - Disclosed herein is a method and system for real-time health data management and prediction of health trends for patients. The system receives patient data from patients, doctors treating patients and one or more external sources. Upon receiving the patient data, system generates three tables for storing, general information, health information and preference information of patients. Thereafter, the system generates a distributed ledger in real-time for each patient based on details of each patient from three tables. The distributed ledger comprises consolidated health data from all the three tables. The system provides a selectively authorized access to the distributed ledger based on biometric information of the patient. Further, based on the consolidated health data, the system manages health data of each of the one or more patients and predicts health trends of each of the one or more patients using Artificial Intelligence (AI) Machine Learning (ML) techniques. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202110 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR VESSEL REACTIVITY TO GUIDE DIAGNOSIS OR TREATMENT OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE - Systems and methods are disclosed for using vessel reactivity to guide diagnosis or treatment for cardiovascular disease. One method includes receiving a patient-specific vascular model of a patient's anatomy, including at least one vessel of the patient; determining, by measurement or estimation, a first vessel size at one or more locations of a vessel of the patient-specific vascular model at a first physiological state; determining a second vessel size at the one or more locations of the vessel of the patient-specific vascular model at a second physiological state using a simulation or learned information; comparing the first vessel size to the corresponding second vessel size; and estimating a characteristic of the vessel of the patient-specific vascular model based on the comparison. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202111 | METHOD OF CLASSIFYING MEDICAL RECORDS - A method for organizing medical record data based on classification of a set of medical records in accordance with an indexing intervention event identified for each record, associated with a medical intervention. The method is based on extracting for each of a plurality of medical records one or more candidate intervention events, and then mapping these to a dataset (or ontology) of standard intervention event names (indexing intervention events) in order to identify a closest matching indexing event for each extracted intervention event. The mapping is based on breaking down each extracted intervention event into a set of characterizing attributes of particular domains or types and then comparing these with corresponding attribute sets for each of the indexing events in the dataset. A closest match is found, and each medical record is classified according to the closest matching indexing event. Data is then aggregated based on the classifications, and also based on information about a user, e.g. a particular clinical area of expertise. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202112 | INTEGRATED HEALTH CONTENT FRAMEWORK - Embodiments herein disclose systems, methods, and computer-readable media for providing relevant content to users. Content from a plurality of disparate sources can be received and data from an electronic health record (EHR) can be leveraged such that relevant data or recommendations can be provided to users. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202113 | INTERNET OF THINGS (IoT) ENABLED WIRELESS SENSOR SYSTEM ENABLING PROCESS CONTROL, PREDICTIVE MAINTENANCE OF ELECTRICAL DISTRIBUTION NETWORKS, LIQUID AND GAS PIPELINES AND MONITORING OF AIR POLLUTANTS INCLUDING NUCLEAR, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL AGENTS USING ATTACHED AND/OR EMBEDDED PASSIVE ELECTROMAGNETIC SENSORS - The invention relates generally to an Internet of Things (IoT) enabled wireless sensor system using attached and/or embedded passive electromagnetic sensors (PES) with distribution hardware. One embodiment of this invention includes a wireless sensor system, which permits process control and predictive maintenance on a utility's electrical transmission and distribution grid. Another embodiment includes a wireless sensor system, which permits process control and predictive maintenance of liquid or gas through a pipeline. Another embodiment includes a wireless sensor system, which permits measurement of breathable air pollutants. Furthermore, a method of manufacturing a protective passive electromagnetic sensor pod and passive electromagnetic sensor equipped distribution hardware components is provided. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202114 | DRY STAND-BY LIQUID CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A NUCLEAR REACTOR - A boiling water reactor system includes a reactor vessel including a reactor core. A steam line is in communication with the reactor core and a turbine that is connected to an electrical generator. A dry standby liquid control system includes a standby vessel containing dry powder containing boron and including a high pressure water supply in communication with the standby vessel via a first closed valve, wherein the standby vessel is in communication with the reactor vessel via a second closed valve. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202115 | NUCLEAR-FUEL SINTERED PELLETS BASED ON OXIDE IN WHICH FINE PRECIPITATE MATERIAL IS DISPERSED IN CIRCUMFERENTIAL DIRECTION AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - Provided is a nuclear-fuel sintered pellet based on oxide in which a plate-type fine precipitate material in a base of a sintered pellet of uranium dioxide, used as nuclear fuel in nuclear power plants, is uniformly dispersed in a matrix of uranium dioxide fuel thereof so as to form a donut-shaped precipitate cluster, and to a method of manufacturing the same. The plate-type fine precipitate material is uniformly precipitated in a tissue thereof or forms a donut-shaped precipitate cluster having a two-dimensional structure through dispersion to improve thermal and physical performance of the nuclear-fuel sintered pellet of uranium dioxide, whereby the creep deformation rate and thermal conductivity of the sintered pellet are improved. The nuclear-fuel sintered pellet based on oxide can reduce the Pellet-Clad Interaction (PCI) failure and the core temperature of nuclear fuel when an accident occurs, thereby significantly improving the safety of a nuclear reactor. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202116 | NUCLEAR FUEL ELEMENTS INCLUDING PROTECTIVE STRUCTURES, AND RELATED METHODS - A nuclear fuel element comprises a core comprising a fissile element and an additional element, a first material surrounding the nuclear fuel, the first material comprising the fissile element and the additional element, the first material comprising a greater than stoichiometric amount of the additional element, and a metal around an outer portion of the nuclear fuel element. Related nuclear fuel elements, and related methods are disclosed. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202117 | CONTROL DRUM FOR A MOBILE NUCLEAR REACTOR - Various example embodiments are directed towards an improved control drum, as well as systems, apparatuses, and/or methods for operating a nuclear reactor with a plurality of improved control drums. The control drum includes an outer shell, an inner shell, a plurality of tubes, the plurality of tubes including at least one neutron absorbing tube and at least one neutron scattering tube, and at least one baffle plate arranged between the outer shell and the inner shell, the at least one baffle plate including a plurality of perforations, and at least one perforation of the plurality of perforations configured to support a tube of the plurality of tubes. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202118 | System for Confining and Cooling Melt from the Core of a Water-Moderated Nuclear Reactor - System for confining and cooling melt from the core of a water-moderated nuclear reactor comprising a melt trap. The melt trap is installed in the reactor vessel bottom and provided with a cooled containment, consisting of outer and inner housings between which there is a sealant, and the filler for the melt dilution placed in the melt trap inner body. The melt trap inner body has a damper consisting of a central mantle, bearing ribs connected with the central mantle, titled plates, placed between the bearing ribs, the stops providing fastening of the damper to the melt trap body. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202119 | PASSIVE CONTAINMENT COOLING SYSTEM FOR BOILING WATER REACTOR AND METHOD OF INSTALLATION - A boiling water reactor includes a reactor building, a reactor cavity pool, a primary containment vessel, and a passive containment cooling system. The reactor building includes a top wall defining a penetration therein, a bottom wall, and at least one side wall, which define a chamber. At least a portion of the primary containment vessel is in the chamber. The passive containment cooling system includes a thermal exchange pipe including an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The outer pipe has a first outer pipe end and a second outer pipe end. The first outer pipe end is closed and in the primary containment vessel. The second outer pipe end is open and extends into the reactor cavity pool. The inner pipe has a first inner pipe end and a second inner pipe end, which are open. The second inner pipe end extends into the reactor cavity pool. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202120 | VVER Emergency Cooling System Sump Protection Device, Filter Module of Sump Protection Device and Filter Element of Sump Protection Device - Emergency Core Cooling System under loss-of-coolant accidents, including a sump protection device (SPD) in the emergency cooling system of a VVER, and the filter module and filter element of the sump protection device, which is to protect sumps from accumulation of debris in case of a loss-of-coolant accident. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202121 | Flow Mixing T-Unit of Reactor Volume Control System - Primary circuit auxiliary systems. The invention provides integrity and normal operation of the T-unit, including cases when the unit operates under abnormal conditions. The flow mixing T-unit of reactor volume control system which includes a T-piece connected with two ends to the bypass line carrying the coolant of one temperature, and with the additional opening to the makeup system pipeline carrying the coolant of a different temperature under emergency and an insert which separates the coolant flows of different temperature, the insert is installed upstream the coolant flow in the bypass so that its outer part is located upstream the coolant inlet into the T-unit, and its inner part is cantilevered inside the T-unit and forms a tube with openings in the area of the T-piece. The T-unit is provided with an adapter mounted at its outlet and forming, together with the insert, a coaxial channel for coolant flow. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202122 | FISSION REACTOR WITH SEGMENTED CLADDING BODIES HAVING CLADDING ARMS WITH INVOLUTE CURVE SHAPE - Plurality of layers form a nuclear fission reactor structure, each layer having an inner segment body, an intermediate segment body, and an outer segment body (each segment body separated by an interface). The layers include a plurality of cladding arms having involute curve shapes that spirally radiate outward from a radially inner end to a radially outer end. Chambers in the involute curve shaped cladding arm contain fuel compositions (and/or other materials such as moderators and poisons). The design of the involute curve shaped cladding arms and the composition of the materials conform to neutronic and thermal management requirements for the nuclear fission reactor and are of sufficiently common design and/or have sufficiently few variations as to reduce manufacturing complexity and manufacturing variability. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202123 | SYSTEM FOR STORING RADIOACTIVE MATERIALS - System for storing radioactive materials comprising: —a canister ( | 2021-07-01 |
20210202124 | Spherical structures for imaging, ablation, antennas, detectors,optical tweezing, and quantum operations - A spherical layer apparatus for imaging, ablation, optical tweezing, and quantum operations is described. In addition, a spherical device that can scatter and absorb electromagnetic radiation effectively, enhance emission and absorption of nearby molecules and atoms, and direct radiation toward a radiation source. The apparatus and device can work in the same setup. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202125 | RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGING APPARATUS - A sensor substrate is provided with a plurality of pixels for accumulating electrical charges generated depending on light converted from radiation in a pixel region of a flexible base material. A circuit unit includes at least one of a driving substrate, a signal processing substrate, or a control substrate and is electrically connected to the sensor substrate. A fixing plate fixes the circuit unit. A conversion layer is provided on a first surface opposite to a second surface of the fixing plate on which the circuit unit is fixed, is provided in a state where the second surface opposite to the fixing plate side faces the first surface of the base material on which the pixels are provided, and converts radiation into light. A housing houses the sensor substrate, the circuit unit, the fixing plate, and the conversion layer. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202126 | CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL COMPOSITION AND CONDUCTIVE MATERIAL PREPARED THEREFROM - A conductive material composition and a conductive material prepared therefrom are provided. The conductive material composition includes 40-80 parts by weight of disulfide resin having at least one terminal reactive functional group and 20-60 parts by weight of metal material. The terminal reactive functional group is independently acrylate group, methacrylate group, glycidyl group, oxiranyl group, oxetanyl group, or 3,4-epoxycyclohexyl group. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202127 | WIRING MEMBER AND LAMINATED SHEET - A wiring member includes: a wire-like transmission member (for example, an electric wire); a first sheet member including one main surface to which the wire-like transmission member is fixed; and a second sheet member fixed to the first sheet member on a side of another main surface of the first sheet member. The first sheet member is suitable for fixing of the wire-like transmission member in comparison to the second sheet member. One member of the first sheet member and the second sheet member includes a space into which another member being melted can be filled. The first sheet member and the second sheet member overlap each other with the another member out of the first sheet member and the second sheet member being melted, filled and then solidified in the space of the one member. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202128 | LAMINATE OF CONDUCTOR AND INSULATING COATING, COIL, ROTATING ELECTRIC MACHINE, INSULATING PAINT, AND INSULATING FILM - There is provided a laminate having excellent partial discharge resistance. A laminate of a conductor and an insulating coating comprising a conductor and an insulating coating formed on the conductor, wherein the insulating coating is formed of a resin composition containing a metal oxide hydrate, and an inorganic insulating layer is formed on the insulating coating when the laminate is exposed to partial discharge caused by inverter surges. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202129 | WIRING MEMBER - A wiring member includes a plurality of wire-like transmission members disposed along a common route on an object-attached part and a base member keeping the plurality of wire-like transmission members in a flat state, wherein the plurality of wire-like transmission members include a first wire-like transmission member and a second wire-like transmission member longer than the first wire-like transmission member. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202130 | Conductor Arrangement and Production Method - The present disclosure provides a conductor arrangement for transmitting differential communication signals, the conductor arrangement includes a conductor carrier, a plurality of pairs of first conductors, two of the first conductors being electrically coupled together at their ends, and a plurality of pairs of second conductors, two of the second conductors being electrically coupled together at their ends, and wherein, as conductor bundles, in each case one of the first conductors of a pair and one of the second conductors of a pair are jointly arranged on a first side of the conductor carrier and the further first conductor of the respective pair and the further second conductor of the respective pair are arranged on a second side of the conductor carrier. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202131 | ELECTRIC POWER TRANSMISSION CABLE - An electric power transmission cable comprises electric power conductors and a plurality of parallel spiralled armouring wires. The electric power transmission cable comprises along its length a first section (I), a second section (III) and a transition section (II). The transition section (II) is provided between the first section (I) and the second section (III). The plurality of parallel spiralled armouring wires in the first section (I) comprises or consists out of first armouring wires ( | 2021-07-01 |
20210202132 | OXIDE SUPERCONDUCTING WIRE CONNECTION STRUCTURE - An oxide superconducting wire connection structure includes: connection target wires, each of which includes an oxide superconducting wire including a superconducting layer on a substrate; and connection superconducting wires that connects the connection target wires. The connection superconducting wires are narrower in width than the connection target wires. Current characteristics of the connection superconducting wires are equal to or greater than current characteristics of the connection target wires. | 2021-07-01 |
20210202133 | WIRE HARNESS WIRE END PROTECTION METHOD - A bent portion of electric wires is protected at a high versatility by a protective member having a simple shape. A wire end of a wire harness | 2021-07-01 |
20210202134 | POLY (ARYL ETHERKETONE) BASED VARNISH FOR WIRE COATING AND METHOD COATING A WIRE FROM A SOLUTION - A method of manufacturing a coated metallic wire having a polymeric coating, the method includes: dissolving at least one polymer including a poly(aryl etherketone) in at least one phenolic solvent to form a solution; contacting the surface of a metallic wire with the solution to form a coated wire having at least one layer of coating; and drying the coated wire to evaporate residual solvent. | 2021-07-01 |