General Electric Company

Ge Precision Healthcare LLC

S M Shajedul Hasan

Steven William Wik

David Michael Davenport

Stanislava Soro

Radislav Alexandrovich Potyrailo

Emad Andarawis Andarawis

Danijel Maricic

John Brandon Laflen

Krishnakumar Sundaresan

Feng Chen

Ertugrul Berkcan

Michael James Hartman

Lembit Salasoo

Bruno Hans Haider

John William Herbold

Yongjae Lee

Selaka Bandara Bulumulla

Cheng-Po Chen

Robert William Tait

Juntao Wu

Yakov Polishchuk

Yang Zhao

Patrick Jay Biel

Kieran Andrew Wall

Cheryl (Chun) Zhan

Srihari Mukesh Tirumalai

Methods and systems are provided for ultrasound imaging. In one example, a method includes receiving ultrasound signals of a region of interest with a wireless hand-held probe assembly, generating a plurality of received digital signals based on the received ultrasound signals within the wireless hand-held probe assembly, generating each of a larger dataset and a smaller dataset from the plurality of received digital signals, transmitting the smaller dataset from the wireless hand-held probe assembly to a hub via a lower bandwidth wireless connection, transmitting the larger dataset from the wireless hand-held probe assembly to the hub via a higher bandwidth wireless connection, generating each of a low resolution image from the smaller dataset and a high resolution image from the larger dataset at the hub, and transmitting the low resolution image from the hub to a first display and the high resolution image from the hub to an electronic device.

Methods and system for data transfer for ultrasound acquisition with multiple wireless connections

A system for detecting and mapping hazards is provided. The system includes at least one sensor unit including a plurality of sensors and a locating device and a hazard mapping (HM) computing device. The HM computing device includes at least one processor configured to receive, from the plurality of sensors, a plurality of sensor measurements, receive, from the locating device, a plurality of sensor locations, determine, based on the sensor locations, a location of the sensor unit during each sensor measurement of the plurality of sensor measurements, identify, for each determined location, a first location identifier of a first plurality of location identifiers, compare each sensor measurement corresponding to the first location identifier to a reference sensor level of the identified first location identifier, and determine that an alert condition is present based on the comparison.

Systems and methods for mapping hazards using wearable sensors

A sensor assembly includes an impedance sensor element, an impedance sensor reader and a communications module. The communications module is configured to communicate with a remote computing device. The impedance sensor reader is coupled to the impedance sensor element. The impedance sensor reader includes a synthesizer and a detector. The synthesizer is configured to output an excitation signal having known values for a plurality of signal characteristics to the impedance sensor element and to generate the excitation signal based on a plurality of direct digital synthesizer (DDS) coefficients received from the remote computing device through the communications module. The detector is coupled to the impedance sensor element and configured to detect a response of the impedance sensor element to the excitation signal and determine an impedance of the impedance sensor element based at least in part on the response of the impedance sensor element to the excitation signal.

Systems and methods for networked sensor nodes

Apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to provide improved, automatic, and dynamic frequency selection for and/or by medical body area network apparatus are disclosed. Certain examples provide a medical body area network apparatus. The example apparatus includes a radio to receive a beacon signal and a processor to process the beacon signal to determine a location of the apparatus. The example processor is configured to at least: when the beacon signal indicates a first location, communicate via a first frequency band; and when the beacon signal indicates a second location, communicate via a second frequency band.

Automatic frequency band selection using infrastructure-enabled beaconing

A system includes a control system. The control system includes a processor configured to receive a first signal from a light source within an industrial facility. The first signal includes a unique identification code configured to indicate at least a partial identity of a human resource within the industrial facility. The processor is configured to determine a proximity of the human resource with respect to the light source based at least in part on a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of the first signal, and to generate an indication of a location of the human resource within the industrial facility based on the determined proximity of the human resource to the light source.

Systems and methods for tracking location in industrial facilities

A metrological interface device includes a printed circuit board ('PCB') including at least one metrological sensor communication interface and at least one first wireless communication interface. The metrological interface device is in communication with a metrological sensing device via the metrological sensor communication interface. Each metrological sensing device is coupled to a physical asset. Each metrological interface device is configured to receive the metrological data from the metrological sensing device. The metrological interface device is configured to receive metrological data from the metrological sensing device via the metrological sensor communication interface. Metrological data represents physical measurement data associated with the physical asset. Each metrological interface device is configured to advertise connection availability to a plurality of mobile computing devices, and also configured to receive a connection request from a connecting mobile computing device, and is additionally configured to create an active connection with the connecting mobile computing device.

Methods and systems for a universal wireless platform for asset monitoring

A system includes wireless sensor devices monitoring a patient, a gateway device providing dual-frequency adaptive protocol time synchronization signals to the sensor devices, the time synchronization signals including a communication frame structure having time slots including two beacon signal time slots and a plurality of data slots, where the sensor devices transmit respective patient data a first time interleaved within a first data slot and a second time interleaved within a second data slot, the first interleaved data transmission and the second interleaved data transmission are each transmitted at respective different frequencies provided to the sensor devices in beacon signals received from the gateway device. The first interleaved data transmission includes both current data and previous data from the at least two wireless sensor devices, and a frequency agility pattern separates adjacent channels by a respective predetermined frequency offset. A method and non-transitory medium are disclosed.

System and method for adaptive interference mitigation in wireless sensor network

A remote monitoring system is presented. The system includes a sensor unit disposed in the electrical device, and configured to obtain measurement characteristics in response to a measurand of the electrical device, obtain reference characteristics insensitive to the measurand of the electrical device, and communicate the measurement characteristics and the reference characteristics using time varying electromagnetic fields. Further, the system includes a reader unit to establish a far-field communication with the sensor unit in the presence of at least one metallic interferer in the electrical device, wherein the reader unit is configured to receive the time varying electromagnetic fields associated with the measurement characteristics and the reference characteristics in response to a radio frequency signal transmitted to the sensor unit, and determine the measurand of the electrical device based on at least one property of the received time varying electromagnetic fields associated with the measurement characteristics and the reference characteristics.

System and method for monitoring characteristics of an electrical device

The present application provides for feeler gauges. The feeler gauges include a plurality of elongate measuring leaves rotatably coupled on a common axis of rotation with an elongate housing. The leaves may be manually, selectively rotatable between a 'home' position wherein the leaves are substantially aligned with the housing and an 'extended' position wherein the leaves are spaced from the housing. The leaves may be relatively flexible and substantially flat such that they define a substantially constant thickness. One or more extended leaves may be used to measure the thickness of a clearance or gap. The gauges may be configured to detect, determine or measure the thickness of the leaves that are in the &#x201c;home&#x201d; position and/or the &#x201c;extended&#x201d; position, and thereby determine the total thickness of a clearance or gap measured by the extended leaves.

Digital feeler gauge and method of using same

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Rexford, NY, United States of America

S M Shajedul Hasan