System and method for event-based searching on social media

    公开(公告)号:US12235915B1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US17887594

    申请日:2022-08-15

    Abstract: An event-based social media search platform includes a database for storing event data associated with user-created events for a plurality of users. The platform analyzes event data from different user-created events to determine when user-created events have event data in common. The platform alerts associated users of related events and facilitates communications between users to confirm that the user-created events are the same or related events. The platform can associate event data and users of related events in the database. Events can be published via social media platforms to assist users in finding other users who share common events.

    Pneumatics system with advanced system diagnostics capabilities

    公开(公告)号:US12234844B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US17358356

    申请日:2021-06-25

    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to diagnosing and locating fluid leakage within a pneumatic system (5) using a minimal amount of pressure sensors (55, 75, 89). In general, each branch (51, 71, 85) of a pneumatic system (5) includes an associated pressure sensor (55, 75, 89) and in accordance with how the pneumatic components (57, 59, 61, 77, 91, 93, 95) associated with the pneumatic branch (51, 71, 85) are toggled and monitored, leaks can be detected and located within the branch (51, 71, 85) using a minimal amount of pressure sensors (55, 75, 89). More specifically, pressure and pressure decay may be measured by the sensors (55, 75, 89) within a branch (51, 71, 85) while the pneumatic components (57, 59, 61, 77, 91, 93, 95) are in a particular configuration. The configuration is thereafter changed, and pressure and pressure decay are again measured by the sensors (55, 75, 89). The results of these two measurements may enable the pneumatic system (5) to derive the presence and location of a leak.

    Configuring perimeter of balloon electrode as location sensor

    公开(公告)号:US12232804B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-25

    申请号:US18464840

    申请日:2023-09-11

    Inventor: Meir Bar-Tal

    Abstract: An expandable balloon, which is coupled to a distal end of a shaft for insertion into an organ of a patient, includes an expandable membrane, one or more electrodes and one or more respective conductive coils. The one or more electrodes are disposed over an external surface of the membrane. The one or more respective conductive coils are each disposed proximate a respective RF ablation electrode. The one or more conductive coils are configured as magnetic sensors.

    Modulating butterfly valve control

    公开(公告)号:US12228220B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-18

    申请号:US18368106

    申请日:2023-09-14

    Abstract: A method and system for controlling a fluid valve are described that avoid the effects of hysteresis. In hysteresis, the power signals associated with a valve position are different on the upstroke and downstroke. As a result, predicting the valve position can be difficult if you only know the current power signal. Instead of using upstrokes and downstrokes, a valve can momentarily be set to zero power, or a rest position when receiving a new command signal. This way the command signal is applied from a zero power or rest position, making the valve position more predictable and accurate.

    Systems and methods for aligning an elongate member with an access site

    公开(公告)号:US12220189B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-11

    申请号:US17826239

    申请日:2022-05-27

    Inventor: Alan Lau Yu

    Abstract: Systems and methods align an elongate member with an access site. An alignment system for controlling an alignment of a robotically controlled elongate member at an access site on a patient may include a longitudinal support rail and support arms coupled with and extending from the longitudinal support rail to form an alignment joint. One or more of the support arms may be configured to maintain the alignment of the elongate member with the access site during a surgical procedure. A method of aligning an elongate member with an access site may include determining a position of a stabilizer of an alignment joint and the access site on a patient, coupling the stabilizer to the access site on the patient, and automatically aligning the instrument driver with the stabilizer on the patient.

    Combination ultrasonic and electrosurgical instrument having electrical circuits with shared return path

    公开(公告)号:US12213717B2

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-04

    申请号:US17337885

    申请日:2021-06-03

    Abstract: A surgical instrument includes a shaft, an ultrasonic transducer, a waveguide acoustically coupled with the ultrasonic transducer and extending distally through the shaft, and an end effector arranged at a distal end of the shaft. The end effector includes an ultrasonic blade acoustically coupled with the waveguide, a clamp arm movable relative to the ultrasonic blade for clamping tissue, and an RF electrode operable to seal tissue with RF energy. The ultrasonic transducer is operable to drive the waveguide and the ultrasonic blade with ultrasonic energy. The surgical instrument further includes an ultrasonic electrical circuit operable to energize the ultrasonic transducer, and an RF electrical circuit operable to deliver RF energy to the RF electrode. A return path of the ultrasonic electrical circuit and a return path of the RF electrical circuit pass through a shared electrically conductive element.

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