51st week of 2021 patent applcation highlights part 59 |
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20210398618 | DEVICES AND METHODS FOR GENOME SEQUENCING - A device includes arrays of Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) cells. Reference sequences representing portions of a genome are stored in respective groups of NVM cells. Exact matching phase substring sequences representing portions of at least one sample read are loaded into groups of NVM cells. One or more groups of NVM cells are identified where the stored reference sequence matches the loaded exact matching phase substring sequence using the arrays at Content Addressable Memories (CAMs). Approximate matching phase substring sequences are loaded into groups of NVM cells. One or more groups of NVM cells are identified where the stored reference sequence approximately matches the loaded approximate matching phase substring sequence using the arrays as Ternary CAMs (TCAMs). At least one of the reference sequence and the approximate matching phase substring sequence for each group of NVM cells includes at least one wildcard value when the arrays are used as TCAMs. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398619 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HIGH THROUGHPUT COMPOUND LIBRARY CREATION - The disclosure provides methods and systems for identifying a subset of compounds in a plurality of compounds. The identifying includes obtaining, for each compound, a vector including a set of elements, where each element includes a measurement of a different feature of an instance of a cell context upon exposure to the compound. The identifying includes performing the obtaining for a plurality of cell contexts, to obtain a plurality of vectors for each compound across different cell contexts. The identifying includes combining the vectors for each compound to form a combined vector for each compound, thereby forming a plurality of combined vectors representing different compounds. The identifying includes pruning the plurality of compounds to the subset of compounds based on a similarity between respective combined vectors in the plurality of combined vectors corresponding to compounds in the plurality of compounds. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398620 | METHODS, SYSTEMS, AND COMPUTER READABLE MEDIA FOR ANALYZING SIMULATED SOLVENT-MEDIATED MOLECULAR INTERACTIONS - Provided herein are methods of analyzing simulated solvent-mediated molecular interactions. The methods include defining a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) grids of voxels on simulated target molecules solvated with simulated solvent molecules to produce a 3D simulation structure. The simulated solvent molecules include simulated nonionic solvent molecules and simulated ionic solvent molecules. A first 3D grid of the plurality of 3D grids includes a first spatial resolution and is defined on the simulated nonionic solvent molecules. A second 3D grid of the plurality of 3D grids includes a second spatial resolution that differs from the first spatial resolution and is defined on the simulated ionic solvent molecules. Related systems and computer readable media are also provided. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398621 | A QUANTUM CIRCUIT BASED SYSTEM CONFIGURED TO MODEL PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL SYSTEMS - There is provided a quantum circuit based system configured to model infinite-size systems, in which one or more quantum circuits are configured as an infinite tensor network representation of quantum states of effectively infinite physical or chemical systems. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398622 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR ASSESSING DRUG USE IN CHILDREN, AND COMPUTING DEVICE - The present disclosure relates to the technical field of data processing, and in particular to a method and a system for assessing drug use in children, and a computing device. The method includes: building a rational drug use (RDU) assessment model for clinical drug use in children; acquiring clinical drug use data of children and extracting classification information therefrom; | 2021-12-23 |
20210398623 | SECURE PRODUCTION OF DYNAMICALLY-ALTERABLE INSTRUCTIONS - Methods and systems are provided for a dynamically-alterable set of instructions personalized to a patient. The set of instructions may update based on patient history and/or medical professional approval. The set of instructions may keep certain portions of patient data confidential, and may dynamically trigger different workflows based on patient response. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398624 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED INTAKE OF PATIENT DATA - Some embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods and systems for automated intake of patient data, and more specifically, for generating structured database of patients and real-time identification of health care providers for the patients based on the received real-time patient data. A patient intake server may receive from a patient intake device, a patient intake data including unstructured patient intake data related to personal or medical information of the patient. The patient intake server may select an engine configured to process the unstructured patient intake data to convert the unstructured patient intake data into a structured patient intake data. In some embodiments, the patient intake server may identify one or more health care providers qualified to provide the medical care to the patient based on an analysis of the structured patient intake data. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398625 | CASE-LEVEL REVIEW TOOL FOR PHYSICIANS - A method of implementing a secure exchange portal system for independent medical review, and classification tools and case-level physician review tools for use in such reviews, are disclosed. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398626 | System and Method for Creation of Persistent Patient Identification - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for creating source-specific, persistent patient identifiers for healthcare service providers. One method includes accessing a record of healthcare data, wherein the record includes patient identifying information (PII) associated with one or more persons to whom the healthcare data pertains. The portions of PII included in the accessed record of healthcare data are extracted from the accessed record and encrypted. Based on one or more business rules, one or more hashed tokens are created by applying one or more hashing functions to the extracted portions of PII. A source-specific identifier is received, the source-specific identifier having been encoded in a manner specific to an organization associated with the computer system and having been encoded with reference to the one or more hashed tokens. An association is stored between the source-specific identifier and the accessed record of healthcare data. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398627 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR HEALTH INFORMATION MESSAGES ARCHIVING - Messages having patient healthcare information are exchanged between various healthcare IT systems. The messages are formatted according to various specific healthcare communication standards. The standards enable communication of the patient healthcare information among the healthcare IT systems. The messages are collected into a repository. Data mining is performed on the collected messages in order to make health-related findings. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398628 | SYSTEM AND METHOD TO FACILITATE INTEROPERABILITY OF HEALTH CARE MODULES - A system for facilitating interoperability among health care modules includes an interface configured to receive a first electronic record from a first health care module. The first electronic record has a first data structure. The system also includes a processor communicatively coupled to the interface. The processor is configured to analyze the first electronic record having the first data structure, and, based on the analysis, extract a portion of data from the first electronic record. The processor further creates a second electronic record using the portion of data from the first electronic record, where the second electronic record has a second data structure. The second data structure is configured to be compatible with a second health care module. The interface is further configured to transmit the second electronic record for display to the second health care module. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398629 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR GENERATING A REPORT - The present invention relates to a method for generating a report ( | 2021-12-23 |
20210398630 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING ERRORS AND/OR CRITICAL RESULTS IN MEDICAL REPORTS - Systems and methods for analyzing a medical report to determine whether the medical report includes at least one instance of at least one category selected from a group consisting of: gender error, laterality error, and critical finding. In some embodiments, one or more portions of text are identified from the medical report. Contextual information associated with the medical report is used to determine whether the identified one or more portions of text comprise at least one instance of at least one category selected from the group. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398631 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DISPLAYING A PATIENT SPECIFIC REPORT - Systems and method for displaying a patient specific report are provided. The report includes a determination of an allele status for genomic loci. Each respective loci associates with an efficacy of a treatment for at least one neuropsychiatric disorder and one or more treatments of the at least one disorder. A respective graphical chart displays for each corresponding disorder including a respective first axis, a respective second axis, and respective data plots. The respective first axis segments into bins. Each respective bin associates with a respective independent first subset of loci and represents a respective treatment class. The second respective axis is associated with a characteristic of an efficacy of a treatment for the corresponding disorder. Each respective data plot represents a corresponding treatment, is within the corresponding bin, and independently located on the first respective axis based on an allele status for the respective independent first subset of loci. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398632 | MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, MEDICAL INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - A medical information processing apparatus comprises: a memory storing a program; and one or more processors which, by executing the program, cause the information processing apparatus to: obtain a plurality of findings for a case from a medical image as a target of a diagnosis; generate a description of a report based on at least some of the plurality of findings; and search a storage unit storing a plurality of cases for a specific case using a search condition including a designated finding designated as a condition to search for the specific case and discrimination information for discriminating whether the designated finding is a finding described in the report while discriminating whether the designated finding is a finding described in the report or a finding that is not described in the report. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398633 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TRANSACTING PRESCRIPTIONS USING A MOBILE DEVICE - Some embodiments of the present disclosure disclose methods and systems for issuing and filling medical prescriptions for a patient. In some embodiments, the system may include a mobile device for use by the medical prescriber in cellular communication with a computer network that in turn is coupled to a computer server. The computer server may include an authentication engine configured to authenticate the identity of a prescriber of a medication, medical device, medical treatment, etc., and a prescription engine configured to generate a prescription based on a message from the mobile device that may be in the form of an image, audio file, text message, etc., based on the result of the authentication. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398634 | MEDICINE PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE SYSTEM - [Problem] To compress the number of records and make consistent records with good visibility by arranging medicine, disease, and symptom/finding entries in a tree structure having a hierarchical structure and recording common attributes in an entry at an appropriate level. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398635 | MEDICATION COMPLIANCE DEVICE - The invention relates to a portable drug dispenser system that includes a chamber for holding a plurality of separately contained medication canisters, a dispensing mechanism for dispensing one or more of the plurality of medication products from the medication canisters, and includes a processor to determine the time of each activation of the dispensing mechanism and to transmit the medication to a locked dispensing station which is only openable by either a password or biornetric means. The dispenser also includes a connection to a smart device to provide the user information and alarms. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398636 | APPLICATION UNLOCK USING A CONNECTED PHYSICAL DEVICE AND TRANSFER OF DATA THEREBETWEEN - According to one embodiment, a system includes a medical device configured to provide a function to a user, communicate via a wireless communication channel with one or more other devices, and send a signal to shift a medical device application from a locked state to an unlocked state. The system also includes a computing device having wireless communication channels and a processor and logic integrated with and/or executable by the processor. The logic is configured to cause the computing device to communicate with the medical device, execute the medical device application, and shift from the locked state to the unlocked state in response to receiving the signal from the medical device. Core functionality of the medical device application is disabled when the medical device application is in the locked state, and some functionality applicable to the medical device is enabled when the medical device application is in the unlocked state. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398637 | Methods For Delivering Drugs Utilizing a Patient-Controlled Device and For Regulating and Monitoring Same - Aspects and embodiments of the present invention generally include a device for patient self-administration of a prescribed medication. The total quantity of doses to be contained in the device, the quantity of prescribed medication comprising each individual dose, and the dosing schedule, collectively referred to as prescription parameters, are determined and controlled solely by a health care provider. In accordance with a prescribed dosing schedule, the device makes available for administration the precise quantity of prescribed medication constituting an individual dose. Patient access to the medication as well as patient control of the device is limited solely to the aspects of the device necessary to administer the available dose. The device also has a monitored subassembly which detects and transmits relevant device information to a remote management system accessible to the HCP, including detected attempts to alter, access, control or otherwise tamper with the device beyond its prescribed use. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398638 | DOSING CALCULATOR FOR SPASTICITY - Mobile computing application for use in the determination of a recommended dose of a medicinal. Computer-implemented method for determining a dose for the administration of a medicinal to a subject wherein information is input by a user and the computer determines the total close for administration. Method for treating a disorder in a subject in need of such treatment, the method comprising using a computer-implemented method for determining a dose of the medicinal to be administered to the subject and administering such a dose to the subject. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398639 | DEFAULT CARBOHYDRATE CONSUMPTION COUNTS BASED ON POPULATION CARBOHYDRATE CONSUMPTION MODELS - The present disclosure relates to default carbohydrate consumption counts based on population carbohydrate consumption models. Aspects of the present disclosure relate to receiving, from a device, at least one characteristic of a person; accessing a population carbohydrate consumption model which relates the at least one characteristic with carbohydrate intake for a population; determining, based on applying the population carbohydrate consumption model to the at least one characteristic, at least one of: a preliminary carbohydrate count for the person or a default carbohydrate consumption count for the person; and causing delivery of insulin to the person based on communicating, to the device, at least one of: the preliminary carbohydrate count for the person or the default carbohydrate consumption count for the person. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398640 | ACTIVITY EVALUATIONS AND USER ADHERENCE FOR DEVICES - Devices, systems, and methods are provided for performing activity evaluations. A method may include determining, by a device, a heart rate. The method may include determining, based on an activity template, a first biometric and a threshold associated with the first biometric. The method may include determining first data associated with the first biometric, the first data indicative of a first quantity. The method may include comparing, by the at least one processor, the first quantity to the threshold, and determining, based on the first data, second data associated with a second biometric, the first biometric different than the second biometric, the second data indicative of a second quantity. The method may include determining that the first quantity is associated with the second quantity. The method may include sending a message to a second device for presentation, the message associated with the first biometric. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398641 | PREDICTIVE METABOLIC INTERVENTION - Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for predictive data analysis. Certain embodiments utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive metabolic intervention by utilizing at least one of activity recommendation machine learning models and prediction window encoding machine learning models. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398642 | REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE DEVICE, REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSIENT STORAGE MEDIUM STORING REHABILITATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - To provide a rehabilitation assistance device, a rehabilitation assistance method, and a non-transient storage medium storing a rehabilitation assistance program that support continuous rehabilitation by enabling the generation of a rehabilitation plan that can increase the motivation to continue rehabilitation. When a patient selects one set from an activity event information DB that stores a plurality of sets that associate information of a predetermined activity event with information of an exercise amount for each of a plurality of body parts when the activity event is performed, the patient can check on the screen displayed on the display unit to what extent the exercise amount contained in one's rehabilitation plan information is achieved by the activity event of the selected set. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398643 | METHOD AND DEVICE FOR PROVIDING A PERSON WITH TRAINING DATA OF AN ATHLETE AS THE ATHLETE IS PERFORMING A SWIMMING WORKOUT - An athlete tracking system and method for tracking an athlete during training sessions. The system includes a mobile tracking device wearable around a portion of the athlete's head, and a training log server for maintaining an athlete profile that includes a training record updatable by the athlete and a training plan supplied by a coach. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398644 | USER SIGNALING THROUGH A PERSONAL CARE DEVICE - A personal care device that is capable of two-way communication is provided. In some embodiments, the personal care device operates in a first mode and a second mode depending on whether a signal has been received from a networked computing device, thus allowing a single human-machine interface (HMI) device to both control the personal care device and to cause signals to be sent to the networked computing device. In some embodiments, the personal care device is configured to present media streamed from the networked computing device, and/or to stream audio detected by the personal care device to the networked computing device. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398645 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR MEASURING DIET AND NUTRITION IN CHILDREN - A tray assembly for monitoring food consumed from one or more dishes supported by the tray assembly includes a housing defining an interior and having an upper surface for supporting the one or more dishes. One or more weight assemblies are disposed in the interior of the housing. Each weight assembly includes a weight sensor configured to detect a weight of one dish of the one or more dishes and to provide a weight signal corresponding to the detected weight of the one dish. A difference between the weight taken at a first time during a meal and at a second time, after the first time, during the meal being generally indicative of an amount of food consumed during the meal from the one or more dishes. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398646 | METHOD, INFORMATION TERMINAL, STORAGE MEDIUM, AND METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION - A method includes transmitting identification information stored in an information terminal to a first server and acquiring biological information of a user based on the identification information from the first server, generating information indicating a degree of dietary restriction depending on a progress of a disease of the user based on the biological information of the user, generating a personalized menu for the user based on the menu information and the information indicating the degree of dietary restriction so as to meet the information indicating the degree of dietary restriction, displaying the personalized menu on a second operation screen for accepting an order of a dish in the restaurant, the second operation screen being displayed on a display of the information terminal of the user, transmitting ordered-dish information representing the dish selected from the personalized menu and a seat ID to the second server. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398647 | METHOD OF PROVIDING INFORMATION - A method of providing information includes outputting a request of acquisition of menu information to a second server based on a request for a personalized menu for the user acquired from an information terminal of the user via a network, acquiring identification information stored in the information terminal from the information terminal via a network, acquiring the menu information from a second server generating information indicating a degree of dietary restriction depending on a progress of a disease of the user based on the biological information of the user, generating, based on the menu information and the information indicating the degree of dietary restriction, a personalized menu for the user so as to meet the information indicating the degree of dietary restriction, and transmitting the personalized menu to the information terminal, thereby allowing a dish to be selected from the personalized menu on the information terminal. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398648 | Method And Apparatus For Treatment And Relapse Prevention In Alcohol, Chemical, And Other Dependencies - An application on a user's mobile device provides interaction and network support which may be based or supplemented with knowledge of the user's emotional state and risk of drug or alcohol dependency relapse. The user's emotional state may be determined in a number of interrelated and/or independent ways including asking the user to rate his/her state, games/quizzes, and/or pictures of the user, any one or more of which may be analyzed for emotional cues. The application establishes an emotional baseline, identifies triggers, tracks movements/activities, and helps the user stay on the road to recovery through consistent messaging, advice, ideas, and feedback. The user's network is notified if conditions point to a likely or imminent relapse and a response team may be automatically selected and notified to intercede in a virtual and/or physical intervention. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398649 | MULTI-DIMENSIONAL BIG HEALTH GUIDANCE SYSTEM BASED ON TRADITIONAL CHINESE MEDICINE THEORY - A multi-dimensional big health guidance system based on a traditional Chinese medicine theory, and a multi-dimensional big health guidance method based on a traditional Chinese medicine theory are provided. An information acquisition unit is used to collect user information. An information analysis unit is used to analyze the user information and perform a user portrait. A guidance scheme output unit is used to perform relevance matching on the user portrait and the material data stored in an information storage unit from multiple dimensions, so as to output a guidance scheme matching the user information. The guidance scheme matching is performed on the user from multiple dimensions, and finally, more accurate and precise health guidance is provided to the user. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398650 | MEDICAL IMAGING CHARACTERISTIC DETECTION, WORKFLOWS, AND AI MODEL MANAGEMENT - Systems and methods for processing electronic imaging data obtained from medical imaging procedures, with use of trained artificial intelligence (AI) models, are disclosed herein. In an example, a use of a medical evaluation workflow involving an AI model includes: obtaining image data and non-image data associated with a medical imaging study; using at least one AI model to analyze the image data, with the trained AI model being validated with a defined governance standard to identify a characteristic or particular type of characteristic; identifying the characteristic with the AI model; and communicating the identified characteristic to a location associated with evaluation of the medical imaging study. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398651 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING REMOTE TREATMENT AND MONITORING - The disclosure relates to medical databases, remote monitoring, diagnosis and treatment systems and methods. In one particular embodiment, a system for remote monitoring, diagnosis, or treatment of eye conditions, disorders and diseases is provided. This method generally includes administering a stream of droplets to the eye of a subject from an ejector device, and storing data related to the administration in a memory of the ejector device. The data may then be monitored and analyzed. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398652 | AUTOMATIC SETTING OF IMAGING PARAMETERS - The present application relates to a computer-implemented medical method of determining a patient-specific setting of at least one imaging parameter of an imaging device. The method includes patient data being acquired, describing information relating to a patient and having impact on the setting of at least one imaging parameter of the imaging device, and imaging parameter data being determined based on the patient data, describing a patient-specific setting of the at least one imaging parameter of the imaging device. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398653 | KEY IMAGE UPDATING MULTIPLE STACKS - A process for key image updating multiple image stacks includes obtaining a first key image list comprising at least one first key image corresponding to a first stack of medical images and obtaining a second key image list comprising at least one second key image corresponding to a second stack of medical images. The first key images are then mapped to the corresponding second key images such that in response to selection of one of the first key images of the first stack the process can map and display the selection of the first key image and the corresponding second key image of the second stack of medical images. In some examples, more than two stacks (e.g., 3 or more) of medical images can be mapped or synchronized in this fashion. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398654 | AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF COVID-19 IN CHEST CT IMAGES - Systems and methods for automatically detecting a disease in medical images are provided. Input medical images are received. A plurality of metrics for a disease is computed for each of the input medical images. The input medical images are clustered into a plurality of clusters based on one or more of the plurality of metrics to classify the input medical images. The plurality of clusters comprise a cluster of one or more of the input medical images associated with the disease and one or more clusters of one or more of the input medical images not associated with the disease. In one embodiment, the disease is COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019). | 2021-12-23 |
20210398655 | MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS, RELATED SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS - Systems for preparing, training, and deploying a machine learning algorithm for making medical condition state determinations include at least one processing unit that includes the machine learning algorithm. The at least one processing unit is programmed to receive image input from an imaging device, receive patient health data, encode the patient health data to convert the patient health data to encoded patient health data, and transmit the encoded patient health data into the machine learning algorithm. Systems are configured to make a medical condition state determination based on the image input and the encoded patient health data, via the machine learning algorithm, and provide visual output for the medical condition state determination via a display device such that the visual output may be augmented with the patient health data. Dynamic state information also may be input to the machine learning algorithm and used to make medical condition state determinations. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398656 | Optimizing Treatment Administration and Management for GI Diseases - Disclosed is a system with a webserver for improving treatment of gastrointestinal diseases by use of questionnaires for the patient that are updated continuously to provide the optimal standard of care, and automatic analysis of responses to the questionnaire to provide an assessment and action plan. The action plan may include treatment or action courses, education, dietary and medication adjustments, testing, and follow-up appointments. The action plan and questionnaire can be automatically optimized by comparing results for patients following it with known treatment results. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398657 | COMPUTER-BASED SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ACTION ITEM EVALUATION AND INITIATION VIA TASK DATA OBJECT GENERATION - To identify relevant action items (that may ultimately be reflected as claims data) for closing an identified gap in care reflected by combinations of disparate claims data records within a claims data store, a task-based interventional system executes rule-based models to determine action items eligible for closing a particular gap in care identified based on criteria associated with one or more programs. The task-based interventional system executes one or more machine-learning models to generate care scores associated with relevant entities associated with the identified gaps in care and generates a task data object comprising data indicative of an action item to close the gap in care together with executable jobs for initiating computer-based workflows to provide data indicative of the gap in care to relevant entities. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398658 | COGNITIVE ARTIFICIAL-INTELLIGENCE BASED POPULATION MANAGEMENT - A cognitive intelligence platform including: a first system configured to execute a knowledge cloud, the first system including: a first memory storing instructions that cause the knowledge cloud to: receive inputs from medical facilities; and receive inputs from service providers; a second system configured to implement a critical thinking engine, the second system including: a second memory storing instructions that cause the critical thinking engine to receive inputs from the knowledge cloud; and a third system configured to implement a cognitive agent, the third system including: a third memory storing instructions that cause the cognitive agent to: receive an originating questions from a user related to a subject matter; execute, using the critical thinking engine, a first round of analysis to generate an answer; and provide the answer to the user including a recommendation associated with the subject matter. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398659 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONTACT TRACING OF OCCUPANTS OF A FACILITY - A contact tracing system and method identifies which persons at a facility may have been exposed to a possibly contagious person. In some examples, multiple sensors, such as access card readers and cameras with video and thermographic imaging, monitor individuals at the facility. For each person, the system collects data pertaining to an individual's location and/or temperature at discrete points in time. In addition to collecting data throughout the day, data is also collected over an extended period of days or weeks. Based on data recorded during the extended periods, the system determines each person's typical schedule and travel pattern through the facility. When one or more sensors detect a possibly contagious person by sensing a fever, or even a gradually rising body temperature, the system searches for person's whose typical schedule and travel patterns overlap with those of the contagious person. The system then automatically notifies people accordingly. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398660 | TIME-BASED RESOURCE ALLOCATION FOR LONG-TERM INTEGRATED HEALTH COMPUTER SYSTEM - Provided is a system configured to allocate healthcare resources for population health management using time values, health scores, or health condition labels stored in a population of records. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398661 | MATCHING ASSISTANCE DEVICE, MATCHING ASSISTANCE METHOD, AND NON-TRANSIENT RECORDING MEDIUM ON WHICH MATCHING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM IS RECORDED - A matching assistance device, a matching assistance method, and a non-transient recording medium on which a matching assistance program is recorded, which assist matching between a patient and a practitioner who can perform a suitable treatment for the patient. When a search request for a practitioner matching the desire of a patient is received from a patient-side terminal used by the patient, a control unit of a server retrieves the practitioner information, from a practitioner information DB, that matches the patient information of the patient and returns information for displaying the search result to the patient-side terminal. When a display request for treatment history information associated with the patient information is received from a practitioner-side terminal used by a practitioner whose practitioner information is registered in the practitioner information DB, the control unit transmits information for displaying the treatment history information to the practitioner-side terminal. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398662 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR TECHNICAL SUPPORT OF CONTINUOUS ANALYTE MONITORING AND SENSOR SYSTEMS - Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for technical support of continuous analyte monitoring and sensor systems. In certain aspects, a method includes sensing, by an analyte sensor, analyte levels of a patient to generate one or more sensed signals. The method further includes generating, by a transmitter, a plurality of event indications based on the one or more sensed signals. The method further includes transmitting, by the transmitter, the plurality of event indications to a processor. The method also includes receiving the plurality of event indications indicating one or more errors associated with the analyte sensor. The method further includes determining one or more root causes associated with the plurality of event indications based on a pattern associated with the plurality of event indications. The method also includes taking one or more actions to resolve the one or more root causes. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398663 | Infusion Devices and Methods - Medical devices, systems, and methods related thereto a glucose monitoring system having a first display unit in data communication with a skin-mounted assembly, the skin-mounted assembly including an in vivo sensor and a transmitter. The first display unit and a second display unit are in data communication with a data management system. The first display unit comprises memory that grants a first user first access level rights and the second display unit comprises memory that grants a second individual second access level rights. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398664 | CELL PROCESSING METHOD - A method of processing blood includes receiving from a touch screen user input data for a protocol for a wash procedure. The user input data includes a numeric value. The method includes storing the protocol in a memory, receiving an identifier from a user, determining if the identifier permits the user to modify the protocol and receiving a modification of the protocol from the user. The method includes providing a plurality of authorizations, a second authorization being a default and an administrator authorization permitting the user to change a setting. The method includes comparing a password to a password stored in memory and, if there is a match, determining that the password is associated with an administrator. If a command to change the setting is received, the command is applied to change the setting. The blood is processed employing a wash procedure using the modified protocol and the changed setting. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398665 | MOTION-CAPTURE SYSTEM, MOTION-CAPTURE PROGRAM, AND MOTION-CAPTURE METHOD - To display/output a complex body motion by accurately synchronizing said body motion with motion image so as to allow a detailed interpretation through comparison thereof. This system is provided with: a plurality of body motion sensors | 2021-12-23 |
20210398666 | SYSTEMS, APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR ACQUISITION, STORAGE, AND ANALYSIS OF HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL DATA - A system for monitoring health of a patient includes a touchless sensing device disposed within a sensing range of the patient. The touchless sensing device includes at least one touchless sensor configured to receive raw data relating to the health status of the patient. The system also includes at least one processor configured to receive the raw data from the touchless sensor or sensors, compute physiological data from the raw data, compute health metrics from the physiological data, and display the health metrics or the physiological data on a display device in communication with the at least one processor. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398667 | SYSTEMS, METHODS, AND APPARATUSES FOR SECURE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENTS AND AUTHENTICATING DIAGNOSED USERS - Disclosed herein are systems and methods for monitoring a patient. One of the system for monitoring a patient includes: a plurality of health sensors configured to measure one or more vital signs of a patient; and a health application residing on the mobile device, the health application is configured to communicate with the plurality of health sensors and to receive data of the one or more vital signs measured by the plurality of health sensors. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398668 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING TELEHEALTH SESSIONS - Methods and systems establishing a telehealth session between a patient and a healthcare provider (HP) are disclosed herein. One of the systems includes: a HP-side application residing a HP-side device; a patient-side application residing on a patient's device; and a telehealth application residing on a server. During a telehealth session, the HP-side application is configured to: generate one or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that display patient-related data on the display of the HP-side device; enable the healthcare provider to edit, using the one or more GUIs, one or more portions of the patient-related data; and send the one or more edited portions of the patient-related data to the telehealth application on the server for storage. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398669 | ULTRAVIOLET LIGHT SENSOR AND METHOD TO ACHIEVE TARGETED VITAMIN D LEVELS - The computer system and computer-implemented method of generating and providing skin care product recommendations to a subject, wherein the method comprises determining, by a computing device, a UV-B exposure of the subject; determining, by the computing device, a vitamin D intake due to the UV-B exposure; determining, by the computing device, a target vitamin D of the subject; and providing, by the computing device, a skin care product recommendation to the subject when the vitamin D intake due to the UV-B exposure is less than the vitamin D target of the subject. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398670 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEMPLATIZING CONVERSATIONS WITH AN AGENT AND USER-ORIGINATED FOLLOW-UPS - A method for answering a user-generated natural language medical information query based on a diagnostic conversational template, including: receiving a medical information query at an artificial intelligence-based diagnostic conversation agent; responsive to content of the query, selecting a diagnostic fact variable set relevant to generating an answer for the query by classifying the query into a domain-directed medical query classification associated with respective diagnostic fact variable sets; compiling user-specific medical fact variable values for respective medical fact variables of the diagnostic fact variable set, where the compiling further includes: extracting a first set of user-specific medical fact variable values from a local user medical information profile associated with the query and requesting a second set of user-specific medical fact variable values through questions; and generating an answer in response to the query. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398671 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RECOMMENDING ITEMS IN CONVERSATIONAL STREAMS - A method including receiving segments of a medical information natural language conversation stream at an artificial intelligence-based health information conversation agent from a user interface; responsive to medical information content of a user profile associated with the conversation stream, defining a desired clinical management outcome objective relevant to health management criteria and related health management data attributes of the user profile; identifying potential therapeutic interventions correlated to advancement of the clinical management outcome objective; selecting a medical intervention from the potential therapeutic interventions correlated to advancement of the outcome objective; presenting in the conversation stream a therapeutic advice conversation stream segment designed to stimulate execution of the medical intervention likely to advance the outcome objective; and presenting to the user in the stream a therapeutic advice conversation stream segment explaining a correlation between the medical intervention likely to advance the outcome objective and achievement of the outcome objective. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398672 | Big Data-Driven Personalized Management of Chronic Pain - Systems as described herein can include diagnosing and treating patients with chronic conditions, such as chronic back pain. A transition to chronic pain can include brain adaptations that can carve the state of chronic pain. Additionally, pain characteristics, pain related disability, and responses to treatment can be at least partially determined by psychological factors and/or personality properties. Personalized management recommendations can be generated for individual chronic pain patients using an infrastructure and associated methodology monitors chronic pain patients and gathers a large amount of group data (e.g., phenotyping participants at various levels of depth: behavior, psychology, brain anatomy and function, genetics, etc.) and machine learning methods to generate individualized treatment recommendations that are updated and retooled based on the group data analyses and based on the specific subjects responses. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398673 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR TREATING CANCER BASED ON RESPONSE PREDICTION USING LIGHT SCATTERING TECHNOLOGY - Disclosed are methods and systems that make use of light scattering techniques, such as the use of a multiphoton laser-scanning microscope, to quantify the scattering directionality of second harmonic generation (SHG) from biopsy samples of cancer in order to predict efficacy of neoadjuvant chemotherapy. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398674 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING SEMI-SUPERVISED LEARNING, AND DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM USING SAME - A method for providing a diagnostic system using semi-supervised learning, and a system therefor. The method for providing a diagnostic system using semi-supervised learning includes: a step in which a diagnostic system trained through a neural network on the basis of supervised learning receives predetermined input data and outputs a diagnostic result for the input data; a step in which the diagnostic system generates automatic annotation training data including the input data annotated as the diagnostic result; and a step in which the diagnostic system performs a retraining process by using the generated automatic annotation training data. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398675 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MEDICAL SUGGESTION SEARCH - The present teaching relates to medical suggestion searching. In one example, data related to a medication drug are obtained. One or more candidate prescription strings are identified from the obtained data. Each of the candidate prescription strings is associated with a plurality of attributes. Each of the one or more candidate prescription strings is automatically processed based on at least one model to generate one or more prescription strings each with an associated ranking. At least some of the generated one or more prescription strings and the associated rankings are stored for future use. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398676 | MACHINE LEARNING ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTING MEDICAL CONDITIONS, RELATED SYSTEMS, AND RELATED METHODS - Systems for preparing, training, and deploying a machine learning algorithm for making medical condition state determinations include at least one processing unit that includes the machine learning algorithm. The at least one processing unit is programmed to receive image input from an imaging device, receive patient health data, encode the patient health data to convert the patient health data to encoded patient health data, and transmit the encoded patient health data into the machine learning algorithm. Systems are configured to make a medical condition state determination based on the image input and the encoded patient health data, via the machine learning algorithm, and provide visual output for the medical condition state determination via a display device such that the visual output may be augmented with the patient health data. Dynamic state information also may be input to the machine learning algorithm and used to make medical condition state determinations. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398677 | PREDICTING CHANGES IN MEDICAL CONDITIONS USING MACHINE LEARNING MODELS - Techniques are described herein for using time series data such as vital signs data and laboratory data or other time series data as input across machine learning models to predict a change in stage of a medical condition of a patient. In various embodiments, patient data comprising vital signs data of a patient and laboratory data or other time series data of the patient corresponding to an observation window may be received. A time series model may be used to predict a change in stage of a medical condition in the patient in a prediction window based on the patient data. The predicted change in stage of the medical condition may be output. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398678 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR MONITORING FUNCTIONAL NEUROPLASTICITY - Systems and methods for monitoring neuroplasticity within at least one region of interest of a brain of a subject are disclosed. The method includes transforming at least one time sequence of signals indicative of neural activity into a summary parameter indicative of plasticity pulses. The method further includes evaluating the summary parameter with respect to one or more threshold values to obtain a determination of neuroplasticity within at least one region of interest of the subject. The method may be used to evaluate the efficacy of a neuroactive therapy, such as a neuroactive medication, a physical therapy, an occupational therapy or a speech therapy. The summary parameter obtained using the disclosed method may be displayed to a subject as a biofeedback during a neurotherapy. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398679 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR USING MULTISCALE DATA FOR VARIABLE, PATHWAY, AND COMPOUND DETECTION - A method can apply permutation procedures to mediation and moderation tests of multiple hypotheses, while controlling the rate of false positives. The techniques presented here through a platform-independent tool can be applied to a variety of datasets in diverse and interdisciplinary fields, such as biology and medicine, where integration of multi-scale data is utilized to unmask disease diagnosis, prognosis, susceptibility/resilience, treatment optimization, and biopharmaceutical development for any brain-based, psychological, or medical illness. This platform allows for study of human illness where animal models are proving inadequate. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398680 | COVID-19 SCREENING SYSTEM, APPARATUS, METHOD, AND GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE - Disclosed is a computer-implemented method and system for screening people for COVID-19. The method entails receiving data relating to a person in a computing system including a processor and memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores programmable instructions executable by the processor. The presence of COVID-19 is determined based on the data. The data is received using a graphical user interface. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398681 | MACHINE MODEL GENERATION SYSTEMS AND METHODS - A method includes defining model attributes of a machine model that organizes feedback data into topic groups based on similarities in concepts in the feedback data. The model attributes include a topic model number that defines how many topic groups are to be created, a hyperparameter optimization alpha value, and/or a hyperparameter optimization beta value. The method also includes generating the machine model using the model attributes that are defined and the feedback data, and applying the machine model to the feedback data to divide different portions of the feedback data into the different topic groups based on contents of the feedback data, the topic model number, the hyperparameter optimization alpha value, and/or the hyperparameter optimization beta value. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398682 | Methods for Evaluation of Gestational Progress and Preterm Abortion for Clinical Intervention and Applications Thereof - Methods to compute gestational age and gestational health and applications thereof are described. Generally, systems utilize analyte measurements to determine a gestational age and gestational health, which can be used as a basis to perform interventions and treat individuals. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398683 | PASSIVE DATA COLLECTION AND USE OF MACHINE-LEARNING MODELS FOR EVENT PREDICTION - Methods and systems for monitoring of sensor data for processing by machine-learning models to generate event predictions to estimate a risk a medical event are provided. An electronic device or wearable smart device may monitor the output of various sensors to collect data related to a person's activity level, location changes, and communications and may use this information as input to a personalized trained machine-learning model to predict a likelihood of an event. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398684 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED CONTACT TRACING - A system and method for generating a risk score for an observer device based on the wireless signals that are emitted from one or more wireless devices is provided. The system and method includes receiving, by an analytic server, a request for tracing data associated with a first device identifier of a first observer device; generating, by the analytic server responsive to receiving the request, tracing data including a second identifier of a second observer device and a risk score indicative of a degree of association between the first observer device and the second observer device; and transmitting, by the analytic server, the tracing data to a human resource (HR) server associated with an organization, wherein the tracing data causes the HR server to notify the second observer device. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398685 | MACHINE LEARNING-BASED DIAGNOSTIC CLASSIFIER - Systems and methods for utilizing machine learning to generate a trans-diagnostic classifier that is operative to concurrently diagnose a plurality of different mental health disorders using a single trans-diagnostic questionnaire that includes a plurality of questions (e.g., 17 questions). Machine learning techniques are used to process labeled training data to build statistical models that include trans-diagnostic item-level questions as features to create a screen to classify groups of subjects as either healthy or as possibly having a mental health disorder. A subset of questions is selected from the multiple self-administered mental health questionnaires and used to autonomously screen subjects across multiple mental health disorders without physician involvement, optionally remotely and repeatedly, in a short amount of time. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398686 | VIRTUAL REALITY VIDEO REPRODUCTION APPARATUS, AND METHOD OF USING THE SAME - The present invention has an object to provide a virtual reality video reproduction apparatus that can allow a viewer to experience an impairment due to a disease, such as diabetes, with a strong sense of immersion. The virtual reality video reproduction apparatus of the present invention applies a filter process of simulating a visual impairment caused by diabetes to a predetermined area of images included in a virtual reality video that represents virtual reality content, and causes an electronic display included in a virtual reality headset to display the video. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398687 | COMPUTER SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING EFFICACY OF A MEDICAL TREATMENT FOR A MEDICAL CONDITION - Users indicate possible outcomes of a medical treatment of a medical condition, a population of patients ( | 2021-12-23 |
20210398688 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR PROCESSING MULTI-OMICS DATA FOR DISCOVERING NEW DRUG CANDIDATE SUBSTANCE - A method for processing data for discovering a new drug candidate substance by a data processing apparatus includes receiving at least some of omics levels that make up omics through a user interface, receiving at least some types of mutual association degrees among a plurality of types of mutual association degrees, selecting a DB for the at least some of the omics levels and a DB for the at least some types of mutual association from an omics DB including data for each omics level and data for each type of mutual association, generating a first matrix composed of the DB for the at least some of the omics levels and the DB for the at least some types of mutual association degrees, receiving a predetermined search word through the user interface, extracting a plurality of biological entities, and generating a multi-omics network in which a plurality of nodes. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398689 | AUTONOMOUS MAPPING AND MONITORING POTENTIAL INFECTION EVENTS - Systems, and method and computer readable media that store instructions for monitoring potential infection events. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398690 | DEVICES, SYSTEMS, AND METHODS FOR ASSESSING FACILITY COMPLIANCE WITH INFECTIOUS DISEASE GUIDANCE - Devices, methods, and systems for monitoring and/or assessing compliance with infectious disease guidance for reducing infectious disease transmissions are described herein. The systems may include sensing devices at or within a facility and computing devices to compare data based on outputs from the sensing devices with guidance and/or recommendations for mitigating infectious disease transmission. Various compliance parameters may be identified as being relevant to the guidelines and measurable with outputs from the sensing devices. Various compliance parameters may be identified as being relevant to the guidelines, but not measurable with outputs from the sensing devices. The compliance parameters may be individually scored or scored in groups, including the compliance parameters not measureable with outputs from the sensing devices, and a score relative to a facility or group of facilities may be provided. The scores may be presented to via a dashboard. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398691 | METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR REDUCING A RISK OF SPREAD OF DISEASE AMONG PEOPLE IN A SPACE - Methods and systems for location tracking or maintaining a count of people in a building or space. An illustrative method may include storing a background image of a field of view of a video camera and receiving a video stream from the video camera. Background subtraction may be performed to identify one or more blobs in the field of view of the video camera. The size of the one or more blobs may be compared to an expected size of the blob at a similar distance from the camera. When the size of the blob is greater than the expected size of a person at the determined distance of the corresponding blob by more than a predetermined threshold the blob may be counted as two or more people. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398692 | PATIENT COMMUNICATION SYSTEM - The techniques described herein may provide for an evidence-based, clinical practice guideline-driven, patient communication system. A user (e.g., a patient, a client, etc.) may interact with, or use, a patient communication system for improved healthcare according to one or more aspects. The patient communication system may credibly categorize user inputs into injury patterns (e.g., correlated to healthcare industry established clinical practice guidelines). For instance, an evidence-based, clinical practice guideline-driven, patient communication system may utilize a library of extensive and credible healthcare information (e.g., reviewed by a credible body established by the healthcare industry). Such information may include physical therapy videos, recovery strategies, workplace group or client-group healthcare information, etc. The patient communication system may generate (e.g., based on user input and decision-making trees) patient diagnosis, injury recovery plans, wellness plans, healthcare information reports (e.g., for healthcare clinicians, insurance companies, employers, etc.), and preventative healthcare plans, among other examples. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398693 | METHOD FOR DRUG RECOMMENDATION, ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND COMPUTER-READABLE STORAGE MEDIUM - The present disclosure proposes a method for drug recommendation, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the method comprises: receiving information of a specified disease and a name of a first drug for the specified disease input by a user; obtaining information of the first drug associated with the name of the first drug and information of a plurality of second drugs associated with the information of the specified disease from a pre-established drug database; determining a text semantic similarity between the information of the first drug and information of each of the plurality of second drugs; determining information of a recommended drug from the information of the plurality of second drugs based on the text semantic similarity; and outputting the information of the recommended drug. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398694 | METAL OXYGEN FUSION REACTOR - An exothermic fusion reactor is described that uses metal-oxygen transmutation. The process comprises a negatively-charged environment; a moderator comprising at least one noble gas; a metal, including isotopes of hydrogen; and a facilitator comprising at least one element selected from the group consisting of oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, selenium, bromine, iodine, or combinations thereof. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398695 | CONTROL ROD DAMPING SYSTEM - A damping area or “dash pot” on the upper ends of control rods absorb energy from dropped control rod assemblies without narrowing the diameter of guide tubes. As a result, coolant can freely flow through the guide tubes reducing boiling water issues. The dampening area reduces a separation distance between an outside surface of the control rod and an inside surface of the guide tubes decelerating the control rods when entering a top end of the guide tubes. In another example, the dampening area may be located on a drive shaft. The dampening area may have a larger diameter than an opening in a drive shaft support member that decelerates the drive shaft when dropped by a drive mechanism. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398696 | USE OF ISOLATION CONDENSER AND/OR FEEDWATER TO LIMIT CORE FLOW, CORE POWER, AND PRESSURE IN A BOILING WATER REACTOR - A method and apparatus of limiting power of a boiling water nuclear reactor system includes a reactor pressure vessel, a reactor core disposed in the reactor pressure vessel, a core shroud surrounding the reactor core, a downcomer region disposed between an inner surface of the reactor pressure vessel and the core shroud, a steam line connected to an upper end of the reactor pressure vessel and a condenser system that receives steam from the reactor pressure vessel. A portion of the condenser system condensate is returned to the reactor pressure vessel of the boiling water reactor inside the core barrel above the core rather than into the downcomer. Returning the condensate in this way increases the effectiveness of an isolation condenser system or if the condensate is a portion of the feedwater from the main condenser it provides an effective means to regulate core flow and core power. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398697 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR NUCLEAR REACTOR - A closed loop heat convection cooling system for nuclear reactors. The cooling system is formed outside the containment structure of the nuclear reactor and the structure of the cooling system prevents gas that is not in the closed circuit to approach the reactor within neutron radiation distance. The cooling systems has cooling assemblies that are housed in protective structures, which shield the cooling assemblies for projectile impact. Air inlet and outlet apertures are formed in the protective structures to cause outside air to be drawn into the protective structures to cool the cooling assemblies. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398698 | SENSORS FOR PASSIVELY MEASURING A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE OF A NUCLEAR REACTOR, AND RELATED METHODS - A sensor for passively measuring a maximum temperature within a nuclear reactor comprises a substrate, and a plurality of melt wires within a cavity defined within the substrate, at least one melt wire of the plurality of melt wires exhibiting a variable melting temperature along a length of the at least one melt wire. Related sensors and methods of forming the sensors are also disclosed. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398699 | METHOD AND FACILITY FOR CONVERTING URANIUM HEXAFLUORIDE INTO URANIUM DIOXIDE - A method for converting uranium hexafluoride to uranium dioxide includes steps of hydrolysis of UF | 2021-12-23 |
20210398700 | FUEL ASSEMBLY - Nuclear fuel assemblies include fuel elements that are sintered or cast into billets and co-extruded into a spiral, multi-lobed shape. The fuel kernel may be a metal alloy of metal fuel material and a metal-non-fuel material, or ceramic fuel in a metal non-fuel matrix. The fuel elements may use more highly enriched fissile material while maintaining safe operating temperatures. Such fuel elements according to one or more embodiments may provide more power at a safer, lower temperature than possible with conventional uranium oxide fuel rods. The fuel assembly may also include a plurality of conventional UO | 2021-12-23 |
20210398701 | FUEL ASSEMBLY - Nuclear fuel assemblies include fuel elements that are sintered or cast into billets and co-extruded into a spiral, multi-lobed shape. The fuel kernel may be a metal alloy of metal fuel material and a metal-non-fuel material, or ceramic fuel in a metal non-fuel matrix. The fuel elements may use more highly enriched fissile material while maintaining safe operating temperatures. Such fuel elements according to one or more embodiments may provide more power at a safer, lower temperature than possible with conventional uranium oxide fuel rods. The fuel assembly may also include a plurality of conventional UO2 fuel rods, which may help the fuel assembly to conform to the space requirements of conventional nuclear reactors. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398702 | A RADIATION SHIELD - Disclosed is radiation-retarding radiation shield which is more flexible than non-toxic lead and lead alloy structures and does not disturb the user. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398703 | DISPOSAL CONTAINER FOR HIGH-LEVEL RADIOACTIVE WASTE USING MULTIPLE BARRIERS AND BARRIER SYSTEM USING THEREOF - The present invention relates to a disposal container and a storage system for high-level radioactive waste and, more specifically, to a disposal container for high-level radioactive waste using multiple barriers and a barrier system using thereof, the disposal container having the multiple barriers consisting of an inner wall made of carbon steel for excellent corrosion resistance and ease of manufacture, a middle wall made of Inconel, which is bonded to a lateral surface of the inner wall, and an outer wall made of copper, which is bonded to a lateral surface of the middle wall. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398704 | SHIELDED TRANSPORTABLE NUCLEAR REACTOR - A transportable nuclear power generator assembly includes a first modular nuclear power generator unit and a second nuclear power generator unit. The first modular nuclear power generator unit includes a first transport container, a first nuclear power module positioned inside the first transport container, and a first supporting mechanism movably supports the first nuclear power module inside the first transport container. The second modular nuclear power generator unit includes a second transport container, a second nuclear power module positioned inside the second transport container, and a second supporting mechanism configured to support the second nuclear power module inside the second transport container. At least one of the first supporting mechanism and the second supporting mechanism is configured to move at least one of the first nuclear power module and the second nuclear power module relative to one another to result in an at least critical state or a subcritical state. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398705 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PYROLYSING ORGANIC WASTE - The invention provides a system for pyrolysing organic waste. The system comprises a conical housing ( | 2021-12-23 |
20210398706 | MAGNETIC OPTIMISATION - A method of designing at least one coil for producing a magnetic field is disclosed. The method comprises: i) setting a performance target comprising: a target magnetic field, and at least two of a target power, a target resistance, a target size and/or weight, a target supply voltage or current, and a target inductance; ii) determining initial design parameters for the at least one coil; iii) modelling performance with the current design parameters to determine a simulated performance against each of the performance targets; iv) calculating a penalty function based on the difference between the simulated performance and the performance targets; v) modifying the design parameters in order to reduce the penalty function; vi) iterating steps iii) to v) until the penalty function or simulated performance has met an acceptance condition. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398707 | COLLIMATOR CONTROL - An adjustable collimator includes a pair of knobs configured to adjust an aperture size by manipulating one or both of the knobs. The knobs may be disposed at opposite ends of a first shaft. The knobs may be configured to each adjust a same dimension of the aperture or to each adjust a different dimension of the aperture. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398708 | Welded conductors for power transmission cables - A conductor for a power transmission cable has a first conductor element and a second conductor element connected by a welding joint. The welding joint has a welding material alloy where the welding material alloy has an Al content of from 90% to 98% by weight, a Ni content of from 2% to 8% by weight, and a content of other metals and/or substances from 0% to 2% by weight, based on the total weight of the welding material alloy, wherein the Al content, Ni content and content of other metals and/or substances sum up to 100% by weight. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398709 | HIGH-SPEED TRANSMISSION LINE - A high-speed transmission line includes a first shielded layer, a first insulating layer, a conductor layer, a second insulating layer and a second shielded layer sequentially attached to each other. The conductor layer includes plural first conductors and plural first conductors interspersed with each other, and the first conductor has a round cross section and is made of a round copper wire capable of increasing the signal transmission speed and extending the scope of application of the transmission line of a flexible cable. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398710 | SHIELDED COMMUNICATION CABLE - Disclosed is a shielded communication cable containing a parallel electric cable containing a pair of insulated wires arranged parallel to each other without being twisted. The shielded communication cable exhibits excellent noise shieldability and hardly generates signal propagation time difference. The shielded communication cable contains a parallel electric cable containing a pair of insulated wires arranged parallel to each other. Each of the insulated wires contains a conductor and an insulation coating that covers the conductor. A braided shield containing elemental wires braided together and a film-shaped shield containing a metal film are arranged at an outer circumference of the parallel electric cable. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398711 | WIRING MEMBER - A wiring member includes: a first electric wire; a braided wire that surrounds the first electric wire; a second electric wire; a resin; a sheath; and a ground wire that is electrically continuous with the braided wire. The braided wire surrounds the first electric wire, the second electric wire, and the braided wire. The sheath has a first end exposing the first electric wire, the second electric wire, and the braided wire. The braided wire has a second end exposing the first electric wire away from the first end. The resin seals, in a liquid-tight manner, the sheath and a region covered by the sheath, and the braided wire and a region surrounded by the braided wire. The first electric wire, the second electric wire, and the ground wire are exposed from the resin. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398712 | Wave Wire Flexible Shielding - A cable with a wave wire flexible shield includes a cable core having an outer surface, and a plurality of wires surrounding the cable core, each of the wires having a wave shape as applied around the cable core. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398713 | COAXIAL CABLE, COAXIAL CABLE PRODUCING METHOD, AND CABLE ASSEMBLY - A coaxial cable includes a conductor, an electrically insulating member provided over a periphery of the conductor, a shielding layer composed of served shields formed by helically wrapping a plurality of metal wires around the electrically insulating member, and a sheath provided around the shielding layer. The electrically insulating member includes indentations on portions of its surface to be brought into contact with and mated to the metal wires respectively. The shielding layer includes portions in respective circumferential directions of the plurality of metal wires being brought into contact with the electrically insulating member are mated to the indentations, respectively, on the electrically insulating member, and adjacent ones of the metal wires in a circumferential direction of the shielding layer are in surface contact with each other. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398714 | ABOVE ROOM TEMPERATURE TYPE II SUPERCONDUCTOR - A Type II superconductor includes a perforated carbonaceous material with an activating material on at least one surface. The activating material a non-polar liquid that does not incorporate Pi-bonding in its structure. The superconductor is manufactured by perforating a carbonaceous material to produce voids and coating at least one surface of the carbonaceous material with the activating material. A superconductive cable includes wires with a perforated carbonaceous material wetted with the activating material on a non-conductive substrate interspersed with non-conducting spacers and surrounded by an insulation layer. The superconductor conducts current at room temperature and above. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398715 | ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT ASSEMBLY CONNECTOR SUPPORT STRUCTURES - Cables, cable connectors, and support structures for cantilever package and/or cable attachment may be fabricated using additive processes, such as a coldspray technique, for integrated circuit assemblies. In one embodiment, cable connectors may be additively fabricated directly on an electronic substrate. In another embodiment, seam lines of cables and/or between cables and cable connectors may be additively fused. In a further embodiment, integrated circuit assembly attachment and/or cable attachment support structures may be additively formed on an integrated circuit assembly. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398716 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR FORMING WIRE AND CABLE - A system and method for manufacturing wire and cable products with a polymer cable component is provided. The systems and methods include increasing the hardness of a polymer cable component in order to reduce compression and deformation of the cable components during manufacturing. In some instances, the hardness is temporarily increased prior to or during the process of creating twisted pair or during the cabling process. | 2021-12-23 |
20210398717 | NOISE-PREVENTING RESISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING SAME - A noise-preventing resistor has a structure in which a resistance wire is wound around an outer circumferential surface of a core, cap terminals are attached to either end part of the core, and part of an insulative coating (resin coating) covering the resistance wire and part of the resistance wire positioned underneath the insulative coating are cut, forming peeled regions exposing the resistance wire. As a result, conduction between the cap terminals and the resistance wire in the noise-preventing resistor is ensured. | 2021-12-23 |