34 results about "Compliance method" patented technology

The smart medical compliance method and system invention prevents adverse drug events through the use of protocols that uniquely identifies the patient, care provider, medication and/or medical device that is to be used with radio frequency identification (RFID). The RFID devices incorporate fail-safe locks or indicators that prevent the inadvertent or unauthorized use of medication, medical devices, or medical supplies. The system corroborates, patient, the care provider, the medical device, and the manner in which it is to be used, and authorizes the action to be undertaken through an interface on a personal digital assistant PDA over a wireless communication channel. The system also timestamps events in the equivalent of a medical black box such that records may be kept to further improve patient care and allow an analysis of procedures. In addition, the system includes interfaces to medication preparation and safe disposal. A number of smart devices that interact with the system are also described. These include smart medical containers, smart clamps, smart valves, smart syringes, smart couplers, smart pipettes, and a host of other point of care devices.

Method and apparatus for measuring retail store display and shelf compliance are provided. A mobile capture unit, (21), determines a movement distance and moves the mobile capture unit, (21), the determined movement distance. The mobile capture unit, (21), captures one or more images of one or more product displays, (22), product shelves or products with the mobile image capture unit (21), using one or more cameras.

Methods and systems for measuring retail store display compliance are provided. One or more images of one or more retail store conditions are captured and associated with related information. The one or more captured images and the related information are transmitted to a processing location for storage and processing. The one or more captured images and the related information are received at the processing location, stored in a repository and processed. The one or more retail store conditions in the one or more captured images are compared with a library to identify them and obtain identification information. The one or more identified captured images and identification information for the one or more retail store conditions are stored in the repository. The one or more retail store conditions in the one or more captured images and identification information are analyzed and one or more summary reports or one or more alerts are generated based upon the analysis.

Methods, systems, devices and program products are provided for effecting compliance with power usage specifications through positive feedback to a monitoring entity. A power usage specification is provided for a device for a task performed by the device using the device to perform the task, embodiments monitoring power used by the device to perform the task to generate power usage data, comparing the power usage data to the power usage specification, and if the power usage data exceeds the power usage specification, automatically providing a reward to a device end-user selected as a function of a value of the specification exceeding and an agreement with the end-user or a third party. Power usage specifications may comprise predicted power usage values and requirements for the device to perform the task during a first power rate period having a lower energy or resource cost than a second power rate period.

Methods and apparatuses are described for creating and using full-kit tasks, monitoring the progress of full-kit tasks, determining full-kit dates, checking compliance of release conditions associated with full-kit tasks, and/or computing and reporting full-kit task delays. A full-kit task can be used in the project plan to represent the preparations that are required or recommended to be performed before executing a set of tasks. The full-kit task can be a zero-duration task that has a full-kit date and that includes a list of items which need to be completed by the full-kit date. The full-kit task is capable of being in one of the following states: not started, in progress, released, and completed. In some embodiments, the set of tasks associated with the full-kit task can only be started if the full-kit task is either in the released state or the completed state.

The invention belongs to related technical field of intelligent sensing, and discloses a high-compliance method for guiding a robot to cooperatively work by people. The method comprises the followingsteps: (1) a human-computer cooperation system is provided; (2) the robot is towed for demonstration; a six-dimensional force sensor and a motor encoder of the human-computer cooperation system respectively measure information of force applied by operators and the angle and the angle speed of each joint of the robot; and a computer obtains the terminal speed and pose of the robot through robot kinematics calculation; and (3) the robot motion position and pose desired by the operators at the next time are predicted by adopting a sparse bayesian learning algorithm based on the information obtained in the step (2); and the torque of each joint is compensated through online adjustment of impedance parameters of an impedance controller according to the predicting result and design of a linear secondary adjuster. The method improves the compliance and the demonstration precision of the robot, and reduces the demonstration difficulty of the operators.

The invention provides a testing method for residual stress in an aluminum alloy pre-stretched plate. Residual stress distribution in aluminum alloy sheets applied in the field of aerospace manufacturing can be precisely tested; compared with an existing crack compliance method, strain of finite element simulation can be identical to measured strain. Compared with the prior art, the method has themultiple advantages that the testing precision is significantly improved.

A source-measure unit (SMU) may be implemented with respective digital control loops for output voltage and output current. The digital control loop associated with the output that is being regulated may be the setpoint control loop while the digital control loop associated with the other output may be the compliance control loop. The digital loop controller may switch between the setpoint control loop and the compliance control loop without generating a mode-change glitch, by maintaining a single integrator. The compliance methods may differ in how and when the decision is made to select which of the measured signals provides the error signal to the integrator. Thus, there may be no issue with integrator wind-up, which might be the case if there were two complete control loops operating continuously.

An inventory compliance system includes an RFID reader having an agent configured to periodically read all RF tags within its range and then send the resulting tag information to an inventory application that processes the received information (e.g., tag ID, etc.) to determine the state of inventory at that time—i.e., the number, type, and location of each of the tags. In this way, through automatic updating via mobile and stationary RFID readers, an organization is able to monitor inventory without manual intervention, thereby reducing cost and time associated with conventional inventory compliance methods.

The invention provides a testing device for fatigue crack growth rate under a seawater corrosive environment and a measuring method for the testing device. The testing device is characterized by comprising a three-point bending fixture and a seawater environment container tank, wherein the seawater environment container tank is connected with a circulating seawater supplying device positioned outside the seawater environment container tank. The testing device and the measuring method disclosed by the invention are suitable for measuring the fatigue crack growth rate of a single edge notch SE (B) sample; a conventional three-point bending fixture is inversely mounted, and a machining gap of the SE (B) sample and a compliance measurement COD (Crack Opening Displacement) gauge are enabled to be positioned above the sea level, so that the COD gauge can be measured by a compliance method and the condition that the COD gauge is corroded since the COD gauge is placed in seawater can be avoided; besides, by using an anti-splashing cover plate, the phenomenon that a fixture system and a fatigue testing machine are corroded due to seawater splashing during a fatigue test is prevented; the testing device has high practicality.

A method and system for ensuring property tax compliance are disclosed, in order to assist municipalities in achieving high accuracy compliance in the Personal Property Declaration (PPD) filings that they receive from taxpayers. The invention achieves greater total assessments of taxable property, in an equitable manner. This municipal personal property tax compliance program (MPPTCP) would change the way a state's municipalities enforce personal property tax assessment statutes. The invention includes a method for auditing a PPD, the PPD being a report of taxable property of a filer who is an individual or a business. According to this method a PPD is automatically analyzed to detect possible inaccuracies, by comparing the PPD with data provided by other PPDs. If the possible inaccuracies are detected, then a report is generated that identifies at least some of those possible inaccuracies.

Methods and systems for improving compliance to corporate initiatives are disclosed. According to the present invention, the system combines software for personnel of a corporate enterprise to communicate securely over a computer network, software for entering and storing information regarding corporate initiatives, software communicating the information to the corporate enterprise personnel, and software for the corporate enterprise personnel to communicate compliance with the corporate initiatives. The system can also include software for communicating information to suppliers to the corporate enterprise, software for the suppliers to communicate availability of materials compliant with the corporate initiatives to corporate enterprise employees, and software for the corporate enterprise employees to request the materials from the suppliers. The system can also include hardware and software for tracking the compliant materials.

Method and apparatus for authenticating a driver for driver compliance. A base unit including an electronic processor configured to receive an identification of a portable communication device associated with a driver, determine if the portable communication device is within a configurable distance from the base unit, compare the identification of the portable communication device with a stored identification, and authenticate the driver in response to the portable communication device associated with the driver being within a configurable distance from the base unit and based on identification of the portable communication device associated with the driver being a match with the stored identification.

A sign comprising a substrate having a planar sign face and an opposing planar back face having peripheral side edges; a recessed portion formed within said substrate having an opening and a bottom, and side walls; a RFID tag assembly having a metal shielding sheet, said RFID tag assembly having a mounting substrate, a double-sided adhesive sheet with one side adhered to a metal shielding sheet and an opposing side adhered to said bottom of said recessed portion; a retroreflective sheeting having a double-sided pressure-sensitive adhesive sheeting for application over said RFID tag assembly to hermetically seal said RFID tag assembly within said recessed portion; a translucent vinyl backed material with primary indicia applied to said retroreflective sheeting; and a label with secondary indicia applied to said back face via label adhesive.

This invention relates to determining the compliance of a subject receiving dietary supplementation with uridine or a uridine source. Specifically, the invention relates to the use of MRS for measuring an increase in brain compounds resulting from dietary supplementation with uridine or a uridine source.

A display system for use in a vehicle, the display system including first and second controllers in communication with each other and a display mounted in the vehicle. The display is communicatively coupled to the second controller and has a display area. The first controller executes the steps of incorporating a pattern in a set of data thereby producing a dataset; and communicating the dataset to the second controller. The second controller executes the steps of receiving the dataset from the first controller; rendering a graphic from the dataset; and making the rendered graphic available to the display for display in the display area. The first controller then additionally executes the steps of reading the rendered graphic; and evaluating the rendered graphic to see if the pattern has been correctly processed by the second controller.