Temperature-measurement probe
First Claim
1. A temperature-measurement device, comprising:
- a first separately designed and manufactured device;
a first path residing within said first separately designed and manufactured device including a communication node, said first path generating circuit measurement data and including a memory configured to store a procedural model; and
a second path in communication with said communication node to receive said procedural model and said circuit measurement data from said first path to provide an estimated target temperature, andwherein said procedural model having a script for correlating said circuit-measurement data to provide the estimated target temperature, andwherein the second path having processing circuitry configured to process a customized script from a second separately designed and manufactured device interchangeable with the first separately designed and manufactured device, the customized script having programming constructs different from the script of the first separately designed and manufactured device.
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Abstract
An apparatus, system and method for temperature measurement of a target site, such a human body site. The invention includes an intelligent temperature probe configured to physically contact a target site and to communicate with a host device, which can be implemented as a hand-held device or as a personal computer. The host device can compute, store and display an accurate predicted temperature, or an actual temperature at thermal equilibrium, of the target site for each of a plurality of different intelligent temperature probes that each have unique and varied operating characteristics. A set of unique operating characteristics for each temperature probe is represented by information communicated between each respective temperature probe and the host device.
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30 Claims
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1. A temperature-measurement device, comprising:
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a first separately designed and manufactured device; a first path residing within said first separately designed and manufactured device including a communication node, said first path generating circuit measurement data and including a memory configured to store a procedural model; and a second path in communication with said communication node to receive said procedural model and said circuit measurement data from said first path to provide an estimated target temperature, and wherein said procedural model having a script for correlating said circuit-measurement data to provide the estimated target temperature, and wherein the second path having processing circuitry configured to process a customized script from a second separately designed and manufactured device interchangeable with the first separately designed and manufactured device, the customized script having programming constructs different from the script of the first separately designed and manufactured device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A temperature-estimation device, comprising:
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a second path including processing components configured for estimating a target temperature of a targeted human body site; and
whereinsaid second path includes a communication node that is configured to communicate with a first path of a first temperature probe device; and
whereinsaid first path resides in the first probe device and is located separate from said temperature estimation device and having circuit measurement data and temperature correlation information, which includes a first mathematical expression, said first mathematical expression comprises a temperature prediction variable determined as a function of at least two different circuit measurement data values, each circuit measurement data value associated with a coefficient value variable and a time value variable;
whereinsaid processing components input a portion of said circuit measurement data and into said mathematical expression, both received from said first path, to estimate said target temperature; and said processing components configured to process a second mathematical expression from a second probe device interchangeable with the first probe device, the second mathematical expression having programming constructs different from the first mathematical expression. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A temperature-measurement device, comprising:
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a first probe device; a first path residing within said probe device including a communication node, said first path generating circuit measurement data and including a memory configured to store a procedural model, wherein said procedural model having a first mathematical expression; and a second path configured for communication with said communication node and configured to receive said procedural model and said circuit measurement data from said first path, and wherein said first mathematical expression utilizes a portion of said circuit-measurement data to provide a predicted target temperature, and wherein the second path is configured to process a second mathematical expression in a second probe device interchangeable with the first probe device, the second mathematical expression having programming constructs different from the first mathematical expression.
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