Footwear system for ulcer or pre-ulcer detection

A footwear and identification system technology, applied in the footwear field, can solve the problems of inaccuracy, reduced patient population compliance, inconvenience of known technologies, etc.

Active Publication Date: 2018-08-31
PODIMETRICS
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Unfortunately, known techniques for monitoring foot ulcers and other types of ulcers are often inconvenient, unreliable, or inaccurate, thereby reducing compliance in the patient population that needs it most

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[0052] An illustrative embodiment adds intelligence to the footwear to warn the user of foot ulcers and prefoot ulcers. To this end, the footwear has a plurality of temperature sensors that cooperate with a map generator to generate a graph representing the actual geometry and size of a person's foot (e.g., the sole) and the temperature distribution across the foot. temperature map of the patient. Correspondingly, because the temperature Figure 1 are generally anatomically accurate, so illustrative embodiments can more precisely identify hotspots for emerging foot ulcers and / or prefoot ulcers. Details of illustrative implementations are discussed below.

[0053] figure 1 Schematically shows a bottom view of the sole of a human foot 10 (this person is also referred to as a "patient") undesirably having an ulcer 12 and an anterior ulcer 14 (described below and shown in phantom because Pre-ulcer 14 does not break the skin). As one would expect, an ulcer 12 at this site on t...

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Abstract

A footwear system having a plurality of temperature sensors determines the emergence of an ulcer or pre-ulcer on a person's foot. After the plurality of temperature sensors generate a plurality of discrete temperature data values, the system and method form a temperature map representing substantially the actual geometric shape of at least a portion of the foot, and the distribution of temperatures of the at least a portion of the foot. Next, the method and system determine whether the temperature map presents at least one of a plurality of prescribed patterns, and produces output informationindicating an emergence of an ulcer or a pre-ulcer on a given portion on the foot. The output information is produced as a function of whether the temperature map is determined to present the at leastone of the plurality of prescribed patterns.

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[0001] priority [0002] This patent application claims priority to Provisional U.S. Patent Application 62 / 251,879, filed November 6, 2015, entitled "WEARABLE SYSTEM FOR THEMEASUREMENT OF FOOT TEMPERATURE," Attorney Docket No. 3891 / 1015, and to David Robert Linders , Brian Jude Petersen, Daniel Joseph Petersen and Jonathan David Bloom as inventors, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference. [0003] Related applications and patents [0004] This patent application is related to the following patents and patent applications, the entire disclosures of which are incorporated herein by reference: [0005] 1. U.S. Patent 9,259,178 (attorney case number 3891 / 1001); [0006] 2. US Patent 9,095,305 (attorney case number 3891 / 1002); [0007] 3. U.S. Patent 9,271,672 (attorney case number 3891 / 1003); [0008] 4. U.S. Patent 9,326,723 (attorney case number 3891 / 1013); [0009] 5. U.S. Patent Application No. 14 / 468,909 entitled "APPARATUS FOR MEASURING TEMPER...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): A61B5/00A61B5/01
CPCA61B5/0002G16H50/20G16H40/63G01K1/026G01K2213/00A43B7/00A61B5/015A61B5/445A61B5/447A61B5/6807A61B5/7282A61B5/7405A61B5/742A61B2505/07G01K13/20A43B3/34G01K1/00
Inventor D·R·林德斯B·J·彼得森D·J·彼得森J·D·布鲁姆
Owner PODIMETRICS
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