16 results about "PHYSICAL MANIPULATIONS" patented technology

Embodiments are directed to a wearable audio device, such as an earbud. The earbud may be configured to detect input using various sensors and structures. For example, the earbud may be configured to detect gestures, physical manipulations, and so forth performed along or on the earbud. In response to the detected inputs, the earbud may be configured to change various outputs, such as an audio output or a haptic output of the device. The earbud may also include a microphone to register voice commands. In some cases, the microphone may be used to control the earbud using the registered voice command in response to one or more detected gestures or physical manipulations.

Jammed oil-in-water emulsion toothpaste compositions. Opaque jammed oil-in-water emulsion toothpaste compositions without an opacifier and / or abrasive. Toothpaste compositions including jammed oil-in-water emulsion wherein the opacity can be modified through physical manipulation. Toothpaste compositions comprising jammed oil-in-water emulsion wherein the toothpaste composition is opaque without a solid opacifier.

The invention provides a physical manipulation apparatus that is engageable with a skin surface of a human or animal subject. The apparatus may include a skin-engageable pad configured to conform to the morphology of a physical manipulation member such as a digit of a human therapist or a stylus tip of a chiropractic adjustment instrument. The skin-engageable pad may include a friction-inducing component in the form of a biomimetic dry adhesive. The apparatus may include a digit cover (110, 120, 130) configured at least partially to cover a human digit. Instead, the apparatus may be configured as a skin patch having two release liners superimposed, respectively, on opposite sides of the skin-engageable pad. The skin patch may include indicia arranged to indicate a required orientation of the skin patch relative to a targeted anatomical feature such as a spinal segment, or a required direction of movement of the manipulation member.

Systems and methods are provided for a secure human user verification procedure that involves physical manipulation of a user device with respect to its environment. A challenge prompt may be presented for a user to provide challenge response data. A subsystem of an application running on the user device may be configured (e.g., using a machine learning model) to evaluate the challenge response data and determine whether the challenge response data includes the subject of the challenge. To ensure that the user is not providing pre-existing data in response to the challenge prompt, data items associated with the challenge response data may be evaluated to validate the challenge response data as being provided by a human user rather than automatically generated.

Embodiments are directed to a wearable audio device, such as an earbud. The earbud may be configured to detect input using various sensors and structures. For example, the earbud may be configured to detect gestures, physical manipulations, and so forth performed along or on the earbud. In response to the detected inputs, the earbud may be configured to change various outputs, such as an audio output or a haptic output of the device. The earbud may also include a microphone to register voice commands. In some cases, the microphone may be used to control the earbud using the registered voice command in response to one or more detected gestures or physical manipulations.

A piston-driven pump apparatus configured to transfer liquid-based abrasive materials via a pressurized hydraulic medium which is capable of physical manipulation between remote material reservoirs. The apparatus exhibits a remotely tethered double-acting pump having independence from a fluidic supply source. The pump is configured to be removed from a first material reservoir and placed in communication with a second material reservoir by physical manipulation. The apparatus has a cylindrical sleeve assembly which has a wearing sleeve which may be removed and / or rotated to increase the operational time of the apparatus before an end-of-life replacement of the sleeve is required. The apparatus diminishes a pulsation effect of conventional double-acting piston pumps via a compressible pressure sleeve which is capable of deformation within a pump housing. A metering device is present to control the external flow of abrasive material, providing back pressure against an internal compressible sleeve.

A piston-driven pump apparatus configured to transfer liquid-based abrasive materials via a pressurized hydraulic medium which is capable of physical manipulation between remote material reservoirs. The apparatus exhibits a remotely tethered double-acting pump having independence from a fluidic supply source. The pump is configured to be removed from a first material reservoir and placed in communication with a second material reservoir by physical manipulation. The apparatus has a cylindrical sleeve assembly which has a wearing sleeve which may be removed and / or rotated to increase the operational time of the apparatus before an end-of-life replacement of the sleeve is required. The apparatus diminishes a pulsation effect of conventional double-acting piston pumps via a compressible pressure sleeve which is capable of deformation within a pump housing. A metering device is present to control the external flow of abrasive material, providing back pressure against an internal compressible sleeve.

An amplitude-modulated pulsed direct current (DC) electrotherapy system may comprise an electrotherapy glove for insertion of a practitioner's hand and an exterior surface including an electrically conductive patient-contact surface for contacting a patient's skin during an electrotherapy-assisted physical manipulation treatment of the patient's muscle within a physical manipulation target region, a signal generator operably connected to the glove via an electrically conductive interface to deliver an amplitude-modulated pulsed DC electrical signal to the target region via the patient-contact regions of the glove, the amplitude-modulated pulsed DC electrical signal having an alternating current electrical signal for inhibiting painful sensation in the patient's skin within the target region due to application of the amplitude-modulated pulsed DC electrical signal mixed with a pulsed DC electrical signal frequency and amplitude capable of inducing relaxation of the patient's muscle to increase a portion thereof accessible to the practitioner for physical manipulation during the electrotherapy-assisted physical manipulation treatment.

The present disclosure provides a system that incorporates a design that has an energy source and probe for creating cellular lysis and in integral infusion sheath for directing infusion of fluids into the same target where the cellular lysis was performed. The system includes an energy probe and an infusion sheath. The combined system provides accurate drug infusion into an area of cellular lysis while removing physical manipulation required for other systems where the cellular lysis energy source and the infusion sheath are separate.

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for performing fitting of an auditory prosthesis using tactile responses. A tactile feedback device determines a physical manipulation in response to a test stimulus. A type of adjustment can be determined based upon the type of the physical manipulation and the type of the test signal. A scaling of the adjustment can be determined based on the degree of the physical manipulation.

The present disclosure provides a system that incorporates a design that has an energy source and probe for creating cellular lysis and in integral infusion sheath for directing infusion of fluids into the same target where the cellular lysis was performed. The system includes an energy probe and an infusion sheath. The combined system provides accurate drug infusion into an area of cellular lysis while removing physical manipulation required for other systems where the cellular lysis energy source and the infusion sheath are separate.

An interface device includes an electronic trace comprising a fluid phase conductor. The electronic trace is configured to transmit a current from a first end of the electronic trace to a second end of the electronic trace. A portion of the electronic trace is configured to receive a physical manipulation from a user, where the physical manipulation causes a change in current along the electronic trace which is configured to be interpreted as a control action. The electronic trace is further configured to sense a strain field produced by the physical manipulation by the user and interpret the strain field as a variable control action.

Systems and methods are provided for a secure human user verification procedure that involves physical manipulation of a user device with respect to its environment. A challenge prompt may be presented for a user to provide challenge response data. A subsystem of an application running on the user device may be configured (e.g., using a machine learning model) to evaluate the challenge response data and determine whether the challenge response data includes the subject of the challenge. To ensure that the user is not providing pre-existing data in response to the challenge prompt, data items associated with the challenge response data may be evaluated to validate the challenge response data as being provided by a human user rather than automatically generated.

The present disclosure applies to methods of cardiac ablation that use catheters able to conform and adapt to the heart of a patient in the middle of surgery. The catheters comprise paddles at the distal ends that have an array of electrodes on at least one side. The durometer of the paddles can be changed through physical manipulation of wires attached to the paddles or through other means such as the material the paddles are made of. Electrodes on the paddle record cardiac signals and a computer analyzes these signals to determine where in the heart fibrillation is originating. The computer then outputs a site for ablation.

Methods of conducting guided oral or maxillofacial procedures involve forming a secure, physical interaction between a fiducial marker and a site having an associated object. A virtual plan is formed, detailing the procedure on the object or the site, in registration with the fiducial marker. Movement of a procedure-conducting device is physically regulated with a robot arm responsive to a controller device and with respect to the fiducial marker. The procedure-conducting device interchangeably receives procedural devices and a calibration element. The controller device cooperates with the robot arm to physically regulates movement of the procedure-conducting device, according to the virtual plan and corresponding with physical manipulation of the procedure-conducting device by the user, for the procedural device to conduct the procedure. Tactile feedback is provided to the user, via the procedure-conducting device, if the physical manipulation by the user causes the procedure-conducting device to deviate from the virtual plan.

The invention provides a physical manipulation apparatus that is engageable with a skin surface of a human or animal subject. The apparatus may comprise a skin-engageable pad configured to conform to the morphology of a physical manipulation member such as a digit of a human therapist or a stylus tip of a chiropractic adjustment instrument. The skin-engageable pad may include a friction-inducing component in the form of a biomimetic dry adhesive. The apparatus may comprise a digit cover (110, 120, 130) configured at least partially to cover a human digit. Instead, the apparatus may be configured as a skin patch having two release liners superimposed, respectively, on opposite sides of the skin-engageable pad. The skin patch may include indicia arranged to indicate a required orientation of the skin patch relative to a targeted anatomical feature such as a spinal segment, or a required direction of movement of the manipulation member.