Energy Dose Calculation System for Photobiomodulation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current energy-based therapeutic devices, such as those using photobiomodulation, rely heavily on operator experience and lack standardized protocols for optimizing energy doses, leading to variability in treatment efficacy across different organisms.

Innovation Solution

A method and system for calculating energy doses that involves receiving user parameters, retrieving initial doses from a database, adjusting doses based on simulations and feedback, and iteratively refining the doses for precise therapeutic responses, facilitated by a digital platform for data sharing and energy application devices.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If operator experience is used to determine energy doses, then treatment can be applied without complex systems, but treatment precision and consistency deteriorate due to variability in operator judgment

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveease of operationVSAvoiddose precision
Core Design Contradiction:
Ease of operationVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the mechanical/manual system of operator judgment with an automated computational system. The processor calculates optimal energy doses by receiving organism parameters, retrieving initial doses from databases, simulating effects on standard organisms, and iteratively refining doses based on feedback, thereby eliminating variability inherent in human operator experience.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables self-service by allowing the calculation and optimization of energy doses without requiring operator expertise. The automated system independently performs parameter analysis, dose calculation, simulation, and feedback-based optimization, making the treatment process self-regulating and consistent regardless of who operates it.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

2Reliability

If standardized protocols are implemented for energy dose calculation, then treatment consistency improves, but system complexity increases due to databases and simulation requirements

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetreatment consistencyVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by pre-storing energy dose data and organism parameters in databases before treatment begins. The system retrieves initial doses from pre-populated databases and performs simulations on standard organisms in advance, allowing rapid determination of optimized doses during actual treatment without requiring complex real-time calculations.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces a simulation of a standard organism as an intermediary between the database and the actual treatment. This virtual model serves as a mediator that predicts treatment outcomes, allowing the system to optimize doses for individual organisms based on standardized simulations, thereby managing complexity through abstraction.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Manufacturing precision

If feedback-based iterative optimization is used, then treatment efficacy improves through personalized dosing, but time consumption increases due to multiple calculation cycles

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetreatment precisionVSAvoidoptimization time
Core Design Contradiction:
Manufacturing precisionVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The patent reduces optimization time by performing preliminary simulations on standard organisms and retrieving initial doses from pre-populated databases before iterative feedback cycles begin. This preliminary preparation provides a strong starting point that reduces the number of iterations needed to achieve optimized doses for individual organisms.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

This approach enables the precise determination and quantification of energy doses for replicable therapeutic effects, digitizing treatment protocols for distribution and access, and optimizing energy delivery for individual responses, improving treatment consistency and efficacy.

Implementation Method 1

One of the most well-known energy exchange-based therapies is photobiomodulation, formerly known as laser therapy, low-intensity light therapy etc., in which cellular biochemical reactions are stimulated by the deposition of electromagnetic energy in specific biological tissues.

Methodology Applied
Scientific EffectPhotobiomodulation: Absorption (EM radiation)

Data Source

PatentUS20230103953A1System and computer implemented method for calculating energy doses
Publication Date: 2023.04.06 TERGOS PESQUISA E ENSINO LTDA
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AI summary

METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR CALCULATING ENERGY DOSES, PLATFORM FOR SHARING AND DISTRIBUTING ENERGY DOSES AND ENERGY DOSEAPPLICATION DEVICE The method (1000) comprises receiving (1010) parameters from an initial user; retrieving (1020) from a database (110) an initial dose based on the parameters of the initial user; adjusting (1030) the initial dose based on parameters of the initial user and a simulation of an effect of the initial dose on a standard organism, generating an adjusted initial dose; receiving (1040) feedback from the initial user regarding the effect of the adjusted initial dose; calculating (1050) a final dose based on the feedback from the initial user and the adjusted initial dose; receiving (1060) feedback from a target user regarding the effect of the final dose; calculating (1070) an adjusted final dose based on the feedback from the target user and the final dose.