Hand Cleanliness

• US 20120062378A1
• Filed: 05/02/2011
• Published: 03/15/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/20/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Biovigil Hygiene Technologies LLC (BioVigil Healthcare Systems, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Biovigil LLC
• Inventors: Bolling, Steven F.
• Application Number:
  US13/099,207
• Publication Number:
  US 20120062378A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/539.12
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 21/245 Reminder of hygiene compliance policies, e.g. of washing hands
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 23/00 Alarms responsive to unspecified undesired or abnormal conditions
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/20 for the management or administration of healthcare resources or facilities, e.g. managing hospital staff or surgery rooms

Abstract

Among other things, from a wireless device, a command is transmitted to wearable monitors within range of the wireless device to update their states to a non disinfected state of the hands of users of the wearable monitors.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising

a wearable device that includes (a) an indicator to indicate a cleanliness state of a user'"'"'s hands and (b) a wireless communication element to communicate, with an external device, information that is useful in connection with indicating the cleanliness state of the user'"'"'s hands.

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