Hyperlocal Allergy Impact Profiling for Personalized Symptom Prediction

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing methods for managing allergy symptoms are often inefficient and fail to provide personalized and hyperlocal treatment recommendations based on environmental conditions, leading to misdiagnosis and suboptimal therapeutic outcomes.

Innovation Solution

The AllergyCast App employs a proprietary algorithm to create personalized allergy impact profiles ('My Allergy Impact') by integrating pollen and weather data, user feedback, and user-specific symptom tracking, and provides tailored treatment recommendations based on environmental conditions, leveraging a combination of sensors and a centralized database to predict and a centralized server for real-time symptom management and treatment suggestions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional allergy management methods are used, then treatment can be provided, but the treatment is not personalized or hyperlocal, leading to suboptimal therapeutic outcomes

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveprecision of allergy symptom predictionVSAvoidcomplexity of integrated monitoring system
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple data sources (pollen counters, weather stations, user symptom tracking, medication usage monitoring) into a unified hyperlocal monitoring system. This merging of previously separate functions enables personalized allergy impact predictions while managing complexity through integrated architecture where components communicate via standardized protocols.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The system is designed to perform multiple functions: environmental monitoring, symptom tracking, medication monitoring, predictive modeling, and treatment recommendation. This multi-functionality allows a single system to address various aspects of allergy management, improving precision without requiring separate specialized systems for each function.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Reliability

If generalized allergy treatments are applied, then treatment coverage is broad, but treatment efficacy is reduced due to lack of personalization

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvereliability of treatment recommendationsVSAvoidadaptability to individual user needs
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system transitions from generalized treatment recommendations to locally optimized recommendations by incorporating hyperlocal environmental data (specific pollen counts, weather conditions) combined with individual user characteristics (symptom patterns, medication responses). This local quality approach ensures treatment reliability is improved through personalization while maintaining adaptability to each user's unique needs.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The system continuously monitors user symptoms and medication usage, then uses this feedback to refine and update treatment recommendations. This closed-loop feedback mechanism improves reliability by adapting recommendations based on actual user responses, while maintaining versatility to accommodate changing individual needs over time.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Productivity

If real-time monitoring and predictive modeling are implemented, then treatment outcomes are optimized, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveefficiency of allergy symptom managementVSAvoidcomplexity of data processing system
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs predictive modeling in advance to forecast allergy symptom impacts before they occur. By analyzing current environmental data and historical patterns, the system generates predictions that enable proactive treatment planning, improving management efficiency while distributing computational complexity across time rather than requiring all processing to occur simultaneously.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentEP4035170B1A method to mitigate allergen symptoms in a personalized and hyperlocal manner
Publication Date: 2025.12.31 JOHNSON & JOHNSON CONSUMER INC
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AI summary

A system and method of determining an allergy impact profile of an individual are disclosed. The system and method may be employed to predict allergy impact environmental conditions may have on allergy symptoms of an individual and to recommend treatment of the individual in response to the predicted allergy impact.