Bio-accurate temperature measurement device and method of quantitatively normalizing a body temperature measurement to determine a physiologically significant temperature event
First Claim
1. A device for determining a normalized body temperature of a subject comprising a) a temperature sensor for sensing raw body temperature of a subject, b) an input/output (I/O) interface configured to receive the sensed raw body temperature from the temperature sensor, and c) a processor configured to receive the sensed raw body temperature via the I/O interface and configured to perform a temperature-normalizing algorithm to obtain a normalized body temperature.
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Abstract
A device for determining normalized body temperature comprising a temperature sensor, an input device, a processor configured with a temperature-normalizing algorithm, memory, and an output device is described herein. Also disclosed is a method for determining physiologically significant changes in body temperature comprising providing raw body temperature of a subject, providing data for a temperature-normalizing algorithm, quantitatively normalizing the raw body temperature with an algorithm comprising an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable to obtain a normalized body temperature, and comparing the normalized body temperature to a second temperature.
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29 Claims
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1. A device for determining a normalized body temperature of a subject comprising
a) a temperature sensor for sensing raw body temperature of a subject, b) an input/output (I/O) interface configured to receive the sensed raw body temperature from the temperature sensor, and c) a processor configured to receive the sensed raw body temperature via the I/O interface and configured to perform a temperature-normalizing algorithm to obtain a normalized body temperature.
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10. A method for normalizing body temperature of a subject comprising
a) providing raw body temperature (TR) of a subject, b) quantitatively normalizing the raw body temperature (TR) with a temperature-normalizing algorithm wherein the algorithm comprises an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable to obtain a normalized body temperature (TBA).
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13. A method for determining a physiologically significant change in body temperature of a subject comprising
a) providing raw body temperature (TR) of a subject; -
b) providing data for a temperature-normalizing algorithm;
c) quantitatively normalizing the raw body temperature (TR) with the algorithm wherein the algorithm comprises an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable to obtain a normalized body temperature (TBA); and
d) comparing the normalized body temperature (TBA) to a second temperature. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24)
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25. A method for determining febrile conditions in a subject comprising
a) taking or referring to a patient history including questions related to symptoms of fever; -
b) performing a physical exam including at least measuring the patient'"'"'s body temperature;
c) normalizing the patient'"'"'s temperature measurement using a quantitative temperature-normalizing algorithm comprising an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable; and
d) analyzing the history, physical exam, and normalized temperature information to determine the probability of fever based on known correlations of that information and fever.
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26. A method for determining ovulation in a subject comprising
a) determining raw basal body temperature of a female subject; -
b) normalizing the raw basal body temperature using a quantitative temperature-normalizing algorithm comprising an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable;
c) charting the normalized basal body temperature over a period of time, and d) identifying a rise in normalized basal body temperature which correlates with ovulation having occurred.
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27. A method for diagnosing depression in subject comprising
a) taking or referring to a patient history including questions related to depression; -
b) performing a physical exam including at least measuring the patient'"'"'s body temperature;
c) normalizing the patient'"'"'s temperature measurement using a quantitative temperature-normalizing algorithm comprising an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable; and
d) analyzing the history, physical exam, and normalized body temperature information to determine the probability of depression based on known correlations of that information and depression.
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28. A computer program product for normalizing body temperature, the program being embodied on a computer-readable medium, on which is carried the program comprising:
a code segment comprising a quantitative temperature-normalizing algorithm comprising an equation containing at least one body temperature-affecting variable. - View Dependent Claims (29)
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