Integrated Multi-Sensor Health Measurement for Precise Correlation

Solution Overview

Problem

Existing sensor devices struggle to perform multiple health-related measurements simultaneously and accurately due to spatial misalignment and temporal discrepancies when using separate devices, leading to imprecise correlations and increased complexity.

Innovation Solution

A multi-sensor device integrating an optical sensor with additional sensors, such as temperature or electrical probes, within a shared housing or barrier, allowing contemporaneous measurements on the same target area, reducing spatial and temporal uncertainties.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate sensor devices are used to perform different health measurements, then measurement versatility is improved, but spatial misalignment and temporal discrepancies occur leading to reduced measurement precision

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemeasurement versatilityVSAvoidspatial alignment precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple sensor devices into a single integrated sensor device that can perform optical measurements, electrical measurements, and other health-related measurements simultaneously on the same target area. This merging eliminates spatial misalignment between separate devices while maintaining measurement versatility through multiple sensor types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated sensor device incorporates multiple sensor types (optical sensor, electrical probes, and other sensors) within a single device, enabling it to perform diverse health measurements including optical health-related measurements, electrical measurements, and other health-related measurements on the same target area.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate sensor devices are used to perform different health measurements, then measurement versatility is improved, but device complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemeasurement versatilityVSAvoiddevice complexity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple sensor devices into a single integrated sensor device that can perform optical measurements, electrical measurements, and other health-related measurements simultaneously on the same target area. This merging eliminates spatial misalignment between separate devices while maintaining measurement versatility through multiple sensor types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

3Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate sensor devices are used to perform different health measurements at different times, then measurement versatility is improved, but temporal discrepancies occur leading to reduced correlation accuracy

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemeasurement versatilityVSAvoidtemporal correlation precision

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSMeasurement precision

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple sensor devices into a single integrated sensor device that can perform optical measurements, electrical measurements, and other health-related measurements simultaneously on the same target area. This merging eliminates spatial misalignment between separate devices while maintaining measurement versatility through multiple sensor types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

Solution Approach 2:

The integrated sensor device enables simultaneous or contemporaneous performance of multiple measurement types on the same target area, ensuring continuous and correlated data collection without temporal gaps or delays between different measurement modalities.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #20Continuity of useful action

4Adaptability or versatility

If multiple separate sensor devices are used, then measurement versatility is improved, but manufacturing costs increase

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvemeasurement versatilityVSAvoidmanufacturing cost

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of manufacture

Solution Approach 1:

The patent combines multiple sensor devices into a single integrated sensor device that can perform optical measurements, electrical measurements, and other health-related measurements simultaneously on the same target area. This merging eliminates spatial misalignment between separate devices while maintaining measurement versatility through multiple sensor types.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #5Merging (Combining)

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

Enhances measurement accuracy and correlation by ensuring simultaneous or nearly simultaneous data capture, reducing manufacturing costs and device size while improving versatility and flexibility in health parameter determination.

Implementation Method 1

an optical sensor may include an illuminator to provide light and a detector to detect the light. The optical sensor may determine a measurement based on characteristics of the light after the light interacts with a target.

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectOptical detection: Photoelectric Effect

Data Source

PatentUS20260041326A1Sensor device

Publication Date: 2026.02.12 VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC(US)

AI summary

A multi-sensor device may perform an optical measurement using an optical sensor of the multi-sensor device, where the optical measurement is performed when a surface of the multi-sensor device is in contact with a human body. The multi-sensor device may perform another measurement using at least one other sensor of the multi-sensor device, where the other measurement is performed when the surface of the multi-sensor device is in contact with the human body, where the other measurement is performed substantially contemporaneously with the optical measurement, and where the optical measurement and the other measurement relate to health parameters. The multi-sensor device may determine a combined measurement value based on the optical measurement and the other measurement.