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Smart Bed for Monitoring Patient Vital Signs
Case ID:
02.098
Web Published:
10/23/2015
With the ever increasing average age of the population, it becomes more and more important to be able to automate biomedical measurements thereby freeing up stuff to concentrate on critical care. The concept we are investigating is a bed with integrated sensing to be used for patient monitoring. The smart bed would monitor patient movement (necessary to determine whether externally induced changes of position are needed to prevent the occurrence of bed sores), respiration rate and pulse rate. In this work, we combine an interferomatic integrating fiber optic sensor, matched spatial filtering to optimize signal to noise ratio, a low cost laser pointer, a low cost digital camera, a portable laptop PC, and original software
Patent Information:
App Type
Country
Serial No.
Patent No.
File Date
Issued Date
Patent Status
Foreign
Australia
2003291003
2003291003
11/17/2003
5/7/2009
Issued
US Continuation-in-Part
*United States
11/090,898
7,196,317
3/25/2005
3/27/2007
Issued
US 371 Utility
*United States
10/534,624
7,189,958
5/11/2005
3/13/2007
Issued
Category(s):
Biomedical
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Mike Miller
Senior Licensing Manager
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc.
(540) 443-9228
mmiller@vtip.org
Inventors:
William Spillman
Kenith Meissner
Jianmin Gong
Jennifer Bennett
Michael Mayer
Keywords:
Medical/Drug Delivery