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Monitoring, analysis, and regulation of eating habits

  • US 8,612,016 B2
  • Filed: 08/18/2005
  • Issued: 12/17/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/18/2004
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. Gastric apparatus, comprising:

  • one or more sensors, configured to generate respective sensor signals responsive to activity of a gastrointestinal tract of a subject; and

    a control unit, configured with an eating detection threshold selected from the group consisting of;

    a predetermined threshold, and a threshold determined during a calibration procedure, and configured to;

    receive and analyze the sensor signals,identify an aspect of at least one of the sensor signals representing periodic activity of the gastrointestinal tract,modify the eating detection threshold responsive to identifying the aspect of the signals representing the periodic activity, anddetermine whether an eating event has occurred responsive to the modified eating detection threshold and at least one of the analyzed sensor signals,wherein the control unit is configured to modify the eating detection threshold responsive to identifying that the periodic activity is of a migrating motor complex (MMC).

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