Patent Applications published on Feb 9, 2006

Explore the 5,246 U.S. Patent Applications published on the 06th week of 2006, including 3,308 applications that subsequently received a Patent Grant.

Featured patent applications from Feb 9, 2006

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: MEDTRONIC MINIMED, INC..
US20060031094A1
Physics
Application 20060031094, fig. 01

Medical data management system and process

Systems and processes for managing data relating to one or more medical or biological conditions of a plurality of subjects (such as patients) over a wide area network, such as the Internet, may be employed for diabetes subjects or subjects with other medical conditions requiring monitoring and/or treatment over time. Such systems and processes provide various functions for several types of users, including patients or subject-users, healthcare provider-users and payor entity-users and combinations thereof, which allow for improved treatment and medical data management of individual subjects and groups of subjects and which allow collection and analysis of aggregate data from many subject sources, for improving overall healthcare practices of providers and subjects (e.g., patients).

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: Anascape, Ltd..
US20060028436A1
Electricity
Application 20060028436, fig. 01

Image controller

An image controller structured for allowing inputs to be converted or translated into electrical outputs, one preferred controller structured with at least a sufficient number of sensors to aid in controlling three-dimensional objects and navigating a three-dimensional viewpoint shown by a display. An active tactile feedback vibrator is mounted as a component of the controller for providing vibration to be felt by a user. Inputs to the controller include a move forward command, a move back command, a move left command, a move right command, a move up command, and a move down command.

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: ANXeBusiness Corp..
US20060031407A1
Electricity
Application 20060031407, fig. 01

System and method for remote network access

Systems and methods for remote network access are provided. The described methods may be implemented in a computer-readable-medium and executed on a processing device. Software modules resident on one or more networks servers and one or more client computing devices cooperate to provide the client computing device(s) with remote network access.

Published: 2006-02-09
US20060030885A1
Human necessities
Application 20060030885, fig. 01

Apparatuses and methods for heart valve repair

A medical device for treating a heart having a faulty heart valve is disclosed. The medical device comprises a ligature including a first anchoring member and a second anchoring member is used. The ligature is percutaneously deployable into a patient with a faulty heart valve wherein the first anchoring member to anchor to a first tissue area of the heart and the second anchoring member to anchor to a second tissue area of the heart.

Published: 2006-02-09
US20060030884A1
Human necessities
Application 20060030884, fig. 01

Suture anchor and approximating device

An elastically curved suture anchor is resiliently straightened and delivered into tissue by a needle. When the needle is withdrawn, resumption of the curvature provides leverage for anchor rotation as the attached suture is pulled to fasten the anchor within the tissue. A fin at the proximal end of the anchor further increases the rotational leverage and expedites anchor fastening. When two or more anchors with connecting suture are delivered in series on a needle, the tension of the suture helps to draw the anchors together and approximates the pierced tissue.

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: SANDISK TECHNOLOGIES INC..
US20060031593A1
Physics
Application 20060031593, fig. 01

Ring bus structure and its use in flash memory systems

A system and integrated circuit chips used in the system utilize a bus in the form of a ring to interconnect nodes of individual components for transfer of data and commands therebetween. An example system described is a memory having one or more re-programmable non-volatile memory cell arrays connected to each other and to a system controller by a ring bus.

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: Exbiblio B.V..
US20060029296A1
Physics
Application 20060029296, fig. 01

Data capture from rendered documents using handheld device

A portable device having scanning, imaging or other data-capture capability is described. In some cases, the portable device can indicate to the user when enough information has been captured to uniquely identify a source document. In some cases, the portable device calculates timestamps and location-stamps indicating when and where a data capture occurred. In some cases, the portable device is controlled by gestures. In some cases, the portable scanning device has associated billing and content/service subscription information.

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: InterSense, Inc..
US20060027404A1
Physics
Application 20060027404, fig. 01

Tracking, auto-calibration, and map-building system

A navigation or motion tracking system includes components associated with particular sensors, which are decoupled from a tracking component that takes advantage of information in the sensor measurements. The architecture of this system enables development of sensor-specific components independently of the tracking component, and enables sensors and their associated components to be added or removed without having to re-implement the tracking component. In a software implementation of the system, sensor-specific software components may be dynamically incorporated into the system and the tracking component is then automatically configured to take advantage of measurements from the corresponding sensors without having to modify the tracking component.

Published: 2006-02-09 Assignee: BodyMedia, Inc..
US20060031102A1
Physics
Application 20060031102, fig. 01

System for detecting, monitoring, and reporting an individual's physiological or contextual status

The invention is a system for detecting, monitoring, and reporting an individual's physiological or contextual status. The system works deriving a physiological or contextual status parameter of an individual using the system. The derivation utilizes two sensed parameters of the individual. The system is able to present the derived parameter in relation to any other sensed parameters, entered information, life activities data, or other derived data.

Published: 2006-02-09
US20060028400A1
Physics
Application 20060028400, fig. 01

Head mounted display with wave front modulator

An augmented reality device for inserting virtual imagery into a user's view of their physical environment, the device comprising: a display device through which the user can view the physical environment; an optical sensing device for sensing at least one surface in the physical environment; and, a controller for projecting the virtual imagery via the display device; wherein during use, the controller uses wave front modulation to match the curvature of the wave fronts of light reflected from the display device to the user's eyes with the curvature of the wave fronts of light that would be transmitted through the device display if the virtual imagery were situated at a predetermined position relative to the surface, such that the user sees the virtual imagery at the predetermined position regardless of changes in position of the user's eyes with respect to the see-through display.