Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Device and method of monitoring a position and predicting an exit of a subject on or from a substrate
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Application No.: US15243344Application Date: 2016-08-22
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Publication No.: US09931085B2Publication Date: 2018-04-03
- Inventor: Steven Jay Young , Carl Hewitt , Al Luckow
- Applicant: SleepIQ Labs, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Assignee: Select Comfort Retail Corporation
- Current Assignee: Select Comfort Retail Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US MN Minneapolis
- Agency: Fish & Richardson P.C.
- Main IPC: A61B5/11
- IPC: A61B5/11 ; A61B5/00 ; A61B5/0205 ; A61B5/024 ; A61B5/08

Abstract:
Methods and devices for monitoring the position of a subject are disclosed. One such method includes sensing pressure waves generated by the subject moving on a divided bladder comprising interleaved portions, generating signals indicative of the pressure waves for each of the interleaved portions, and sending the signals to a processor. The method further includes determining the position of the subject based on the difference between the signals from each of the interleaved portions and generating a pattern for the subject. The pattern includes the presence and/or position of the subject over time. The method further includes predicting an action such as an exit of the subject from the divided bladder based on comparing a current pattern for the subject to previous patterns for the subject.
Public/Granted literature
- US20160354044A1 Device and Method of Monitoring a Position and Predicting an Exit of a Subject on or from a Substrate Public/Granted day:2016-12-08
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