698results about "Temperature sensors" patented technology

A system for remotely monitoring and managing health statuses of a plurality of users includes software instructions storable on a memory device usable by a computing device, the software instructions causing a hardware processor of the computing device to receive a plurality of sets of health-related information from a plurality of mobile computing devices of a plurality of users. The health-related information includes physiological information derived from wearable devices of the users indicative of an onset of symptoms associated with an infection, contact tracing data, and diagnosis data. The hardware processor determines exposure levels based on at least the contact tracing data, and determines user-specific risk states based on physiological information, diagnosis data, and exposure levels.

An electrocardiogram device configured to transmit at least one signal responsive to a wearer's cardiac electrical activity can include a disposable portion and a reusable portion configured to mechanically and electrically mate with each other. The disposable portion can include a base having at least one mechanical connector portion, a plurality of cables and corresponding external ECG electrodes, and a first plurality of electrical connectors associated with the plurality of cables. The reusable portion can include a cover having at least one mechanical connector portion, a second plurality of electrical connectors configured to electrically connect with the first plurality of electrical connectors of the disposable portion, and an output connector port configured to transmit at least one signal responsive to one or more signals outputted by the external ECG electrodes of the disposable portion.

A wearable device configured to secure to skin of a user and noninvasively measure body temperature of the user can include first and second pairs of temperature sensors configured to generate one or more signals responsive to detected thermal energy, a thermally conductive element positioned at least partially between the second pair of temperature sensors, and one or more hardware processors configured to receive the one or more signals generated by each of said first and second pairs of temperature sensors and determine one or more body temperature values of the user based on at least comparisons between different ones of the first and second pairs of temperature sensors. In some implementations, the wearable device includes thermally conductive probes for transmitting thermal energy toward ones of the first and second pairs of temperature sensors and a substrate positioned between the probes and the skin.

The invention relates to a sensor head device for a heart support system, wherein the sensor head device has at least one sensor carrying element, wherein the sensor carrying element has at least one sensor cavity for accommodating at least one sensor and / or at least one signal transmitter cavity for accommodating at least one signal transmitter.

A system for detecting an anomalous biologic event in a person includes a wearable device for monitoring skin surface sites of a person. The wearable device includes an electrode for contacting skin sites, an electronic stimulus source with a surface area to provide stimulus, and a sensor placed adjacent the skin sites to sense physiological data. A processor is coupled to the wearable device and is configured to: cause the stimulus source to generate a stimulus; excite the electrode to trigger monitoring the skin sites; cause operation of the sensor; receive bioelectrical data from each skin site; receive physiological data from the sensor; continuously compute a difference in the received bioelectrical data for a duration; compute a difference in the received physiological data at time intervals; and generate, based on the computation, an assessment including a likelihood of occurrence of the anomalous biologic event.

Obstructive sleep apnea from blockage of the upper airway can result in significant health issues. Described herein is an intelligent personalized closed loop neuromodulation system and methods to prevent backwards movement of the genioglossus muscle through stimulation of certain branches of the hypoglossal nerve and muscle motor points, by using muscle feedback from electromyogram sensors to provide optimal stimulus. Alternative embodiments to treat neuropathic pain and urinary dysfunction are enclosed.

A system for detecting an anomalous biologic event in a person includes a wearable device for monitoring skin surface sites of a person. The wearable device includes an electrode for contacting skin sites, an electronic stimulus source with a surface area to provide stimulus, and a sensor placed adjacent the skin sites to sense physiological data. A processor is coupled to the wearable device and is configured to: cause the stimulus source to generate a stimulus; excite the electrode to trigger monitoring the skin sites; cause operation of the sensor; receive bioelectrical data from each skin site; receive physiological data from the sensor; continuously compute a difference in the received bioelectrical data for a duration; compute a difference in the received physiological data at time intervals; and generate, based on the computation, an assessment including a likelihood of occurrence of the anomalous biologic event.

Embodiments herein relate to an optical chemical sensor system that is wearable and includes a microneedle array. In one embodiment, the invention includes a chemical sensing device having a set of microneedles and sensor elements. The sensor element may include a first low refractive index gel layer, a second low refractive index gel layer, and a chromogenic ionophore sensing film disposed between the first low refractive index gel layer and the second low refractive index gel layer. In one embodiment, a retardation layer may be disposed between the sensor element and a set of microneedles. An optical emitter may be configured to emit light into the sensor element. An optical detector may be configured to receive light from the sensor element. Other embodiments are also included herein.

A system, apparatus and method directed to determining a temperature within a patient body, including an optical fiber with one or more core fibers. The system can include a console having non-transitory computer-readable medium storing logic that, when executed, causes operations of providing an incident light signal to the optical fiber, receiving a reflected light signal of the incident light, processing the reflected light signal to determine a temperature within the patient body near a measurement region. The method may include determining a location of a distal tip of the optical fiber within the patient body at least based on the temperature.

A medical system is disclosed that includes a medical device having an optical fiber, and an interchangeable connection component configured to provide a fiber optic connection between the medical device and capital equipment. The connection component is configured to facilitate cleaning and / or polishing of fiber optic interfaces include therewith. The connection component is also configured for replacement by a medical technician while the capital equipment is operational. The capital equipment may include one or more of an optical interrogator, a patch cable, a medical probe, an ultrasound machine, a display, a magnet sensor, or an electro-cardiogram (ECG) machine. The medical device may include an elongate member configured for insertion within the patient body, where the optical fiber core extends along a length of the elongate member.

An exemplary hearing device may be configured to be inserted at least partially within an ear canal of a user of the hearing device. The hearing device may include a first temperature sensor configured to detect ear canal temperature within the ear canal, a second temperature sensor configured to detect ambient temperature outside of the ear canal, and a processor. The processor may be configured to determine a work status of the user indicative of an activity level of the user and determine a core body temperature of the user based on the ear canal temperature detected by the first temperature sensor, the ambient temperature detected by the second temperature sensor, and the work status of the user.

Embodiments include a method of diagnosing gastroparesis or suspected gastroparesis, the method comprising: obtaining data representing a time series of readings from gas sensing apparatus housed within a ingestible capsule device orally ingested by a subjected; processing the readings to detect one or more gastroparesis indicator spikes in the CO2 concentration with respect to time; based on the detected one or more gastroparesis indicator spikes in the CO2 concentration with respect to time, diagnosing gastroparesis or suspected gastroparesis.

Provided are a sensor device which can be made small-sized, a catheter, and a system provided with the sensor device. A sensor device (1) is provided with a pipe-shaped distal-end-side member (23), a pressure sensor (4) and a temperature sensor (5) which are integrated and accommodated in an inner space of the distal-end-side member (23), and lead wires (6) connected to the pressure sensor (4) and the temperature sensor (5) and led out to the rear-end side. In the pressure sensor (4) and the temperature sensor (5), sensor elements (41), (51) are formed on one surface side of respective substrates (42), (52) thereof, and are disposed and integrated so that the other-surface sides of the substrates (42), (52) face each other.

The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for measuring skin conductance of a writing instrument's user, comprising: - applying a DC voltage to user's fingers contacting the writing instrument during a writing session with the writing instrument; - measuring a current generated by reverse iontophoresis following applying the DC voltage; - calculating an average skin conductance over a specific timeframe from the measured current; - storing calculated average skin conductance data as historical data; - comparing the average skin conductance to historical data from the same user or to reference data from a group of users; and - providing an indication to the user in case that the skin conductance has decreased and / or the calculation results.

A system for monitoring a subject in a physical space, the system including: a plurality of sensors for detecting movements of the subject in the physical space; a data processing system configured to: receive from the sensors signals representing detected movements of the subject in the physical space, process the received signals to determine corresponding movements of the subject in the physical space, and select an action from a plurality of predefined actions, based on the detected movement; and one or more output devices for outputting a prompt based on the selected predefined action for the subject.

Proposed is a complex handpiece. The handpiece includes a housing and a needle assembly. The housing has an internal space and a plurality of holes formed at a front face thereof. The needle assembly is located in the internal space of the housing, and includes a plurality of microneedles for applying a high-frequency current. The microneedles are movable in a longitudinal direction of the housing such that tips of the microneedles are exposed to an outside of the housing through the holes. The microneedles become longer as being positioned from an outermost edge of the front face of the housing to a central portion of the front face of the housing such that the tips of the microneedles are arranged convexly with the central portion as an apex. The complex handpiece can uniformly insert the microneedles into the skin and perform both microneedle high-frequency treatment and ultrasonic treatment.

A method of monitoring a subject with an opto-physiological sensor system is described herein. The method comprises obtaining a model of the optical properties of at least one body tissue type to be monitored, wherein the model of the optical properties comprises a definition of static (DC) and dynamic (AC) components of transmitted optical power and a definition of a source-detector separation related to a normalised path length for an illumination source of the opto-physiological sensor: obtaining an indication of at least one physiological property of the subject from a wearable device worn by the subject: obtaining an indication of at least one physical variable from the wearable device worn by the subject; determining, using the opto-physiological model, how the at least one physical variable affects the at least one physiological property; and determining a corrected value for the physiological property based on the determination of how the at least one physical variable affects the at least one physiological property.

Systems are described for measuring, recording, transmitting, accessing, and using an array of physical and physiological measurements that quantify states of complex adaptive systems, such as biological systems, more particularly the state is reflected in a metric designated health capacity. These measurements may be used, for example, for the pre-symptomatic detection and interception of disease states in a biological system. In one aspect, the system comprises a wearable device configured to measure, substantially simultaneously, an array of water-associated metrics, preferably at multiple loci on the biological system and as a function of time. The systems may further comprise using a scalable technology platform to identify, from the array of data across multiple systems, preferably compared to a training data set, utilizing machine readable instructions, to determine and / or predict health states, including the health capacity, of the biological system and to generate recommendations, including modification or nutrition, sleep, physical or mental inputs for the improvement of health for the biological system.

A finger wearable device for monitoring vital signs at a finger includes a housing, a finger cuff, a plurality of vital sign sensors, and an electrocardiogram (ECG) sensor. The housing includes an interface surface for pressing against the finger. The finger cuff attaches to the housing and has a size and a shape to secure the housing to the finger and force the interface surface against the finger when the finger cuff is worn around the finger. The vital sign sensors are disposed in or on the housing and orientated to measure the vital signs from the finger of a wearer. The ECG sensor is disposed in or on the housing and coupled to first and second electrodes to measure ECG signals. The second electrode is disposed on the interface surface.

A skin inspection device for identifying abnormalities; the device comprising: a transparent panel having an inspection area; an array of thermochromic liquid crystal (TLC) formations provided on the transparent panel which are operable to change colour in response to a change of temperature; and one or more image capture devices for capturing a colour image of the TLC formations and an area of skin of a target located in the inspection area; the captured colour image being analysed to identify abnormalities in the area of skin.

The application discloses a wearable urinary incontinence monitoring system based on multi-modal sensor fusion and relates to the technical field of urinary incontinence monitoring, and solves the problems that the existing urinary incontinence monitoring cannot be carried out in daily life and has poor monitoring precision, and the scheme points comprise a sensing diaper, a signal acquisition front end, a user mobile terminal and a cloud management platform; the sensing diaper is used for collecting user urine leakage signals through a sensor; the signal acquisition front end is used for collecting user activity signals through the sensor, pre-processing the user urine leakage signals and the user activity signals to obtain user data and forwarding; the user mobile terminal is used for carrying out urine leakage frequency monitoring and user behavior activity monitoring through the user data to obtain a monitoring report, and uploading the monitoring report and the user data to the cloud management platform; the cloud management platform is used for establishing an electronic case through the monitoring report and the user data, and delivering analysis results to the user mobile terminal; and the monitoring precision can be improved through temperature data and pH data.

Systems are described for measuring, recording, transmitting, accessing, and using an array of physical and physiological measurements that quantify states of complex adaptive systems, such as biological systems, more particularly the state is reflected in a metric designated health capacity. These measurements may be used, for example, for the pre-symptomatic detection and interception of disease states in a biological system. In one aspect, the system comprises a wearable device configured to measure, substantially simultaneously, an array of water-associated metrics, preferably at multiple loci on the biological system and as a function of time. The systems may further comprise using a scalable technology platform to identify, from the array of data across multiple systems, preferably compared to a training data set, utilizing machine readable instructions, to determine and / or predict health states, including the health capacity, of the biological system and to generate recommendations, including modification or nutrition, sleep, physical or mental inputs for the improvement of health for the biological system.

Systems and apparatus related to adaptive support garments including adaptive support structures, lacing systems, and an adaptive engine are discussed. In an example, an adaptive support garment includes a support structure, a plurality of lace guides, a lace cable, and an adaptive engine. The support structure is configured to wrap around a portion of anatomy of a wearer and apply a compression on the portion of anatomy. The plurality of lace guides are disposed on the support structure. The lace cable extends through the lace guides to form a lacing pattern over a lacing region of the support structure. The adaptive engine is coupled to the support structure and engages with the lace cable. The adaptive engine is also configured to increase or decrease tension on the lace cable to increase or decrease compression of the support structure on the portion of anatomy, respectively.

The invention relates to a device (1) for determining human deep body temperature (CBT), intended to be placed on a limb segment of the body and characterized in that it comprises a module (2) for estimating blood perfusion flowing throughout the limb segment of the body; a module (3) for measuring skin surface temperature and heat flux; a central unit (5) connected to the module (2) for estimating blood perfusion flowing throughout the entire limb segment and to the module (3) for measuring skin surface temperature and heat flux, designed to determine human deep body temperature (CBT) based on at least signals from the connected modules (2, 3); and a support element for the components (2, 3, 5) of the device (1) mounted on said limb segment of the body. The invention also relates to a method of determining human deep body temperature, CBT, characterized in that estimates of the value over time of blood perfusion (Wb(t)) flowing throughout the entire limb segment are determined (S1); the temperature values Temp(t) and heat flux (HF(t)) on the skin of the tested limb segment are recorded (S2); the obtained temperature values Temp(t), heat flux HF(t) and estimates of the value over time of blood perfusion Wb(t) are pre-processed (S3); and the CBT temperature is determined (S4) based on at least the pre- processed values Temp(t), HF(t), Wb(t) using an estimator.

The present invention discloses an intelligent, bioengineered wound dressing device that utilizes honey bee-derived therapeutic compounds integrated into a programmable, multi-layered delivery structure designed for sustained antimicrobial release and dynamic wound healing modulation. The device features microencapsulated honey, propolis, and beeswax components embedded within a biocompatible hydrogel matrix, supported by a control technique that processes real-time wound data acquired through embedded biosensors. The technique classifies healing phases, detects wound anomalies, and modulates therapeutic release through actuators based on environmental cues such as pH, temperature, and exudate levels. The system further includes a logic control unit capable of adaptive learning, remote data transmission, and wound trajectory logging, ensuring precise, patient-specific therapeutic delivery. By integrating natural antimicrobial agents with intelligent sensing and release architectures, the invention provides a responsive, self-optimizing wound care platform that enhances healing outcomes, reduces dressing intervention frequency, and improves clinical oversight through real-time therapeutic intelligence.

A system for providing an intervention based on detected gait kinematics for therapy, training, gaming or movement assistance. The system comprises at least one item of footwear incorporating a sensor or sensors, a data processor, and a wireless communication unit, and a remote intervention system configured to provide an intervention for provoking a response by a subject wearing the item of footwear. The sensor or sensors are configured to generate sensor data associated with movement of the subject. The data processor is configured to process the sensor data to generate gait parameter data associated with the subject's gait kinematics, and the wireless communication unit is configured to communicate the gait parameter data to the remote intervention system.

The present invention relates to a system and method for, for example, periodically collecting physiological parameters in real-time from a plurality of subjects, for example temperature from cancer patients, heartbeat rates from persons being treated for coronary conditions, physiological orientation information mechanical shock and related parameters, for example from football players in danger of head trauma, and other physiological measurements which it real-time convey useful information. This information is coupled to a system which integrates the information, subjects it to criteria (for example doctor-specified dangerous condition criteria), communicates information and, optionally provides alarms to clinicians. The invention, through the deployment of computing functions on smart phones connected to the skin applied transducer collecting physiological parameters reduces power consumption, and this objective is further achieved through the use of sampling strategies and timing, and the limitation of access to the skin applied transducer.

An infant monitoring device is disclosed having a band or sock configured to wrap around the foot or other portion of an infant. The sock houses a removable sensing module configured to couple to the sock and measure health parameters of the infant. The sensing module is removably couplable with a base station that charges the sensing module. The sensing module transmits and receives information from the base station. Both the base station and the sensing module can transmit and receive information from a remote location.