Method of determining the dynamic location of a protection device

• US 8,185,354 B2
• Filed: 05/19/2008
• Issued: 05/22/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Original Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
• Inventors: Osborn, Thomas Ward III, Kirkbride, Tana Marie, Crutcher, Reginald Edward II, O'Reilly, Marie Brigid
• Primary Examiner(s): Moffat, Jonathan C Teixeria
• Assistant Examiner(s): HWANG, TIMOTHY
• Application Number:
  US12/123,025
• Publication Number:
  US 20090287454A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,464 Days
• Field of Search: 702/187
• US Class Current: 702/187
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/036 by means introduced into body tracts A61B5/032 and A61B5/035 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/06 Devices, other than using radiation, for detecting or locating foreign bodies for removing same A61B17/50 ; determining position of probes within or on the body of the patient
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/061 Determining position of a probe within the body employing means separate from the probe, e.g. sensing internal probe position employing impedance electrodes on the surface of the body A61B1/00158 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

The method uses a location device and a timing element to determine the location of a protection device at various periods of time. During these periods of time, the human may be participating in a variety of activities and positions.

Claims

1. A method of obtaining dynamic data related to a protection device worn by a human being during one or more body movements comprising:

Positioning the protection device comprising a location device into a vagina;

Receiving at a computing device a location indication of the location device associated with a first vaginal position of the protection device during the one or more body movements at a time mark;

Storing the location indication and the time mark in a memory in communication with the computing device;

Receiving an additional location indication of the location device associated with a second vaginal position of the protection device during the one or more body movements at an additional time mark;

Storing the additional location indication and additional time mark in the memory in communication with the computing device;

Interpreting the location indication and additional location indication to determine an interpreted location of a protection device within the vagina; and

Creating a report that illustrates the received location indication at the time mark and the received additional location indication at the additional time mark in the memory in communication with the computing device

Correlating the location indication and the additional location indication to determine an occurrence when the protection device moves or fails.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising creating a report comprising an illustration of the movement of the location indication from the time mark to the additional location at the additional time mark.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the location device further comprises a first location device associated with the protection device and a second location device at a location remote from the first location.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the protection device is an absorbent article.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more body movements are gross body movements.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the location device is an electromagnetic device.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the location indication and the additional location information when the human being is performing an action selected from a group of actions comprising:

Coughing, sneezing, running, lifting, defecating, urinating, walking, laughing, jumping, squatting, jogging, running, sprinting, swimming, performing yoga and playing a sport.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the location indication and the additional location information when the human being is transitioning from a first position to a second position where the first position and second position are selected from a group comprising:

Sitting position;

Squatting position;

Stretching position;

Crawling position;

Standing position;

Lifting position;

Yoga positions; and

Horizontal position.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the location indication and the additional location information when the human being is transitioning from a first action to a second action where the actions are selected from a group comprising coughing, laughing, sneezing, running, defecating, urinating, lifting, walking, jogging, running, sprinting, jumping, squatting, swimming, performing yoga and playing a sport.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving the location indication and the additional location information when the human being is transitioning from a position to an action where the position is selected from a group of positions comprising:

Sitting position;

Squatting position;

Stretching position;

Crawling position;

Standing position;

Lifting position;

Yoga positions; and

Horizontal position;

and the actions are selected from a group of actions comprising coughing, sneezing, laughing, running, jumping, squatting, defecating, urinating, lifting, walking, jogging, running, sprinting, swimming, performing yoga and playing a sport.

11. A computer system comprising a processor for executing computer executable code, a memory that assists executing computer executable code and an input/output circuit;

the computer executable code comprising code for a method of obtaining dynamic data related to a protection device worn in a vagina during one or more body movements, the code comprising code for;

Receiving at a computing device a location indication of a location device associated with a first vaginal position of the protection device at a time mark;

Storing the location indication and the time mark in a memory in communication with the computing device;

Receiving an additional location indication of the location device associated with a second vaginal position of the protection device at an additional time mark;

Storing the additional location indication and additional time mark in the memory in communication with the computing device;

Interpreting the location indication and additional location indication to determine an interpreted location of a protection device within the vagina; and

Creating a report that illustrates the received location indication at the time mark and the received additional location indication at the additional time mark in the memory in communication with the computing device

Correlating the location indication and the additional location indication to determine an occurrence when the protection device moves or fails.

12. The computer system of claim 11, further comprising computer executable code for interpreting the location indication and additional location indication to determine the location of a protection device in three dimension in relation to a human body.

13. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the location device further comprises a first location device associated with the protection device and a second location device at a location remote from the first location device and the location indication compares a received indication of the first location device in relation to the second location device.

14. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the protection device is a vaginal device.

15. The computer system of claim 11, wherein the location device is an electromagnetic device.