The Invention Science Fund I LLC

Elwha LLC

Gearbox LLC

Equility LLC

Deep Science, LLC

Other

Searete LLC

Ventrk, LLC

Elizabeth A Sweeney

Roderick A Hyde

Lowell L Wood, Jr

Eric Leuthardt

Jordin T Kare

Muriel Y Ishikawa

Clarence T Tegreene

Nathan P Myhrvold

Victoria Y H Wood

Dennis James Rivet, Ii

Edward Stuart Boyden

Mark A Malamud

Edward K Y Jung

Michael A Smith

Tony S Pan

Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera

Robert Samuel Langer

Charles Whitmer

Daniel B Cook

Robert W Lord

Royce A Levien

Gary L McKnight

Michael Baym

Stephen L Malaska

Robert C Petroski

Gregory J Della Rocca

Daniel Hawkins

Parag Jitendra Parikh

Terence Myckatyn

Joshua S Shimony

Hon Wah Chin

Erez Lieberman

Ralph G Dacey, Jr

Katherine E Sharadin

Jesse R Cheatham, Iii

Eleanor V Goodall

W Daniel Hillis

Jeffrey A Bowers

Philip Andrew Eckhoff

Nicholas W Touran

Paul G Allen

Alistair K Chan

William David Duncan

Yaroslav Aleksandrovich Urzhumov

Wayne R Kindsvogel

Bran Ferren

Joshua L Dowling

Max Nathan Mankin

Richard Glen Ellenbogen

Philip V Bayly

Paul Santiago

Todd J Stewart

Melanie K Kitzan

David Lozoff Brody

Anthony Vinson Smith

Raul Radovitzky

John D Rinaldo, Jr

Ed Harlow

Brittany Scheid

Sharon L Wolda

Richard T Lord

David Bazeley Tuckerman

Paul Duesterhoft

Elizabeth L Schubert

Roy P Diaz

Thomas A Weaver

William Henry Gates, Iii

David R Smith

Desney S Tan

Richard Neil Zare

Leroy E Hood

Paul Henry Dietz

Tom Driscoll

Eun Young Hwang

Richa Wilson

David Lawrence Tennenhouse

Patrick Neill

Gary Wachowicz

Neil Jordan

Joel Cherkis

Thomas J Nugent, Jr

Erez Lieberman Aiden

Elizabeth E Nugent

Russell J Hannigan

Ehren Brav

3ric Johanson

Philip A Welkhoff

Michael Allan Schneider

Robert Langer

Eric C Leuthhardt

Tim F Ramsey

Eric C Leuthardt

Edward KY Jung

Michael H Baym

Jr Lowell L Wood

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively constrict or selectively dilate, thereby compressing or relieving compression against at least one body part of a subject. Such selective constriction or dilation can improve muscle functioning or joint functioning during use of motion-conducive equipment, such as an exercise bike or rowing machine.

Garment system including at least one sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

In an embodiment, a nerve stimulation system includes a headset and an earpiece which includes two or more ear-contacting elements, for example an ear canal insert, and a concha insert. Ear-contacting elements may be mounted onto an earpiece housing have projecting mounting structures, which provide mechanical and electrical connection between ear-contacting elements and housing through various materials and configurations. In an embodiment, a nerve stimulation system includes a neural stimulation subsystem including neural stimulation device control circuitry for use in combination with a personal computing device to control a neural stimulation device.

Nerve stimulation system, subsystem, headset, and earpiece

Configuration technologies for apportioning resources and communicating indications of potential or actual incentives based on one or more measurements or other objective indications that therapeutic components have been administered to an individual, other attributes of the therapeutic components or the individual, or other such determinants. Techniques for apportioning resources cost-effectively (between providers and other parties, e.g.) and for facilitating or handling implementations thereof or output therefrom.

Cost-effective resource apportionment technologies suitable for facilitating therapies

Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to personal therapy and exercise systems as well as to methods related thereto. For example, a personal therapy system can be a modular system that can include multiple therapy gear modules.

Personal therapy and exercise monitoring and oversight devices, systems, and related methods

Systems and methods are described for monitoring compression applied by a compression bandage to a body portion of an individual. A system embodiment includes, but is not limited to, a deformable substrate integrated with a textile configured to conform to a body portion; a sensor assembly coupled to the deformable substrate, the sensor assembly including one or more strain gauges configured to generate one or more sense signals associated with a strain of the textile; circuitry operably coupled to the sensor assembly and configured to receive the one or more sense signals associated with the strain of the textile; and a reporter operably coupled to the circuitry and configured to generate one or more communication signals responsive to instruction by the circuitry, the one or more communication signals associated with the strain of the textile.

Systems and methods for monitoring compression with compression bandages having stretchable electronics

Methods, computer program products, and systems are described that include measuring at least one effect of a combined bioactive agent and artificial sensory experience on an individual and/or modifying at least one of the bioactive agent or the artificial sensory experience at least partially based on the at least one effect.

Methods and systems for modifying bioactive agent use

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods, devices, and computer systems thereof for automated data collection from a subject. In certain embodiments, one or more characteristics of a subject are sensed, and the subject is given a queue status indicator based on a comparison of the subject's one or more sensed characteristics with corresponding sensed characteristics from other subjects. In one embodiment, the subject is a healthcare worker and the system, methods, and devices are utilized to evaluate the overall health of the worker as part of the check-in process for work.

Devices, systems, and methods for automated data collection

Breast monitoring systems are described including a breast sensor device having a substrate fabricated to substantially conform to one or more breasts of a subject, dynamically bendable optical fibers, and a connector; a light source configured to operably couple with the optical fibers through the connector; a photodetector configured to operably couple with the optical fibers through the connector and positioned to detect light transmission through the optical fibers; a reporting device; and a microcontroller including a microprocessor and circuitry, the circuitry including input circuitry configured to receive a first set of signals and at least one second set of signals from the photodetector; calculation circuitry configured to calculate a curvature delta value based on a comparison of the first and at least one second set of signals, and calculate a breast volume delta value from the calculated curvature delta value; and reporting circuitry.

Systems, devices and methods for monitoring breastfeeding

Devices, systems, and methods that may be used to controllably deliver alcohol to a subject using an inhaler, wherein the inhaler may include a housing having a flow channel coupled to an ethanol-containing inhalant reservoir, an actuator configured to facilitate release of the inhalant, a constituent sensor, and a control unit. The control unit may accept parameters associated with the subject, create an inhalant delivery regime, and control operation of the actuator based at least partially on a sensed constituent level to facilitate release of an ethanol-containing inhalant from the reservoir into the flow channel in accordance with the regimen.

Methods, systems, and devices related to delivery of alcohol with an inhaler

Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to systems and methods of dispensing one or more medicaments to a subject. The systems and methods utilize at least one flexible compression garment having one or more medicament dispensers therein.

Systems for dispensing a medicament to a subject and related methods

Systems and related methods for enhancing learning of a motor task are described. The system controls delivery of an example or prompt to the subject via one or more of an audio, video, or other output device. A learning enhancing transcutaneous neural stimulus is delivered in association with the example or prompt. Electrical control circuitry controls timing of delivery of neural stimuli and prompts or examples. The system may be implemented in connection with a personal computing device, for example.

System and method for enhancing learning of a motor task

Embodiments disclosed herein relate to a garment system including at least one muscle or at least one joint activity sensor, and at least one actuator that operates responsive to sensing feedback from the at least one muscle or the at least one joint activity sensor to cause a flexible compression garment to selectively compress against or selectively relieve compression against at least one body part of a subject. Embodiments disclosed herein also relate to methods of using such garment systems.

Garment system including at least one muscle or joint activity sensor and at least one actuator responsive to the sensor and related methods

Systems and related methods for enhancing learning of an activity by a subject are described. A prompt for causing the subject to perform the activity is delivered repeatedly, in combination with a neural stimulus, with timing of delivery of prompts and neural stimuli controlled by electrical control circuitry. Neural stimuli are delivered with a transcutaneous neural stimulator located fitted in or on at least a portion of an ear of the subject. The system is implemented in connection with a personal computing device such as a smart phone or tablet computer.

Prompting system and method for enhancing learning with neural modulation

A patient medical support system is provided including at least one article of medical equipment and a two-way audio-visual system. Such equipment may be used, for example, for telemedicine applications by a patient discharged from a hospital, or other subject in need of remote health care monitoring. Electrical control circuitry is provided for monitoring and controlling usage of the medical support system, including determining operational mode and amount of usage of the medical equipment and/or telepresence system. Electrical control circuitry is provided for controlling a controllable lighting system of the patient medical support system to influence the amount or type of medically useful information in an image of the patient for remote visual monitoring.

Patient medical support system and related method

Devices, compositions, and methods are described which provide a tubular nanostructure or a composite tubular nanostructure targeted to a lipid bilayer membrane. The tubular nanostructure includes a hydrophobic surface region flanked by two hydrophilic surface regions. The tubular nanostructure is configured to interact with a lipid bilayer membrane and form a pore in the lipid bilayer membrane. The tubular nanostructure may be targeted by including at least one ligand configured to bind to one or more cognates on the lipid bilayer membrane of a target cell.

Tubular nanostructure targeted to cell membrane

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Elizabeth A Sweeney