Coordinated Therapeutic Control via Real-Time Feedback

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing medical treatment systems lack the ability to effectively monitor and adjust therapeutic treatments in real-time, leading to unintended primary and collateral effects on patients.

Innovation Solution

A system that coordinates the interaction between therapeutic treatment systems and monitoring systems, allowing for real-time adjustment of treatment parameters such as location and magnitude to control the shape of primary and collateral effects.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If therapeutic treatment is applied without real-time monitoring and adjustment capability, then treatment delivery is simple and fast, but unintended primary and collateral effects occur and cannot be addressed timely

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvepatient safetyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent implements a feedback mechanism where monitoring systems continuously assess treatment effects and provide real-time information back to the therapeutic treatment system. This enables dynamic adjustment of treatment parameters based on actual patient response, preventing unintended effects while maintaining safety. The feedback loop connects monitoring data to treatment control, allowing timely remedial action.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

Solution Approach 2:

The therapeutic treatment system is designed with dynamic capabilities, allowing real-time adjustment of treatment parameters such as location and magnitude. This dynamic nature enables the system to adapt to changing patient conditions and treatment effects, transforming a static treatment delivery system into an adaptive one that can respond to monitoring data immediately.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If treatment parameters are adjusted in real-time based on monitoring, then patient outcomes improve and unintended effects are minimized, but treatment delivery time and system complexity increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetreatment effectivenessVSAvoidtreatment delivery time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The monitoring and adjustment process operates continuously throughout the treatment delivery, ensuring that treatment parameters are optimized in real-time without interrupting the overall treatment flow. The system maintains continuous assessment and adjustment capabilities, eliminating delays while improving effectiveness through ongoing optimization.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #20Continuity of useful action

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary monitoring and assessment before treatment effects fully manifest, allowing proactive adjustment of parameters to prevent unintended effects. By assessing treatment impact early and making adjustments in advance, the system avoids reactive delays and maintains timely treatment delivery while improving outcomes.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

3Ease of operation

If multiple smart devices operate in isolation, then each device maintains simplicity and autonomy, but system coordination is limited and stability decreases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice autonomyVSAvoidsystem stability
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent merges multiple smart devices into a coordinated network where therapeutic treatment systems and monitoring systems communicate and collaborate. This integration allows devices to share data and coordinate actions, improving overall system stability and effectiveness while maintaining the autonomy of individual devices through standardized communication interfaces.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

An intermediary coordination system is introduced to facilitate communication and collaboration between multiple smart devices. This intermediary layer enables devices to operate autonomously while maintaining system-wide coordination, resolving the conflict between device independence and system stability through a mediating communication framework.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS20250166784A1Coordinated control of therapeutic treatment effects
Publication Date: 2025.05.22 CILAG GMBH INTERNATIONAL
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AI summary

Devices, systems, and techniques for coordinated control of therapeutic treatment effects. An example device may select a therapeutic treatment from a database of a plurality of therapeutic treatments. The device may select a corresponding medical data stream relevant to the therapeutic treatment. The medical data stream may be produced by a surgical monitoring device. The device may determine, based on the medical data stream, qualitative feedback information about the therapeutic treatment.