MEDICAL SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS

• US 20170173262A1
• Filed: 03/01/2017
• Published: 06/22/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/01/2017
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Francois Paul Veltz
• Original Assignee: Francois Paul Veltz
• Inventors: VELTZ, Franois Paul
• Application Number:
  US15/446,015
• Publication Number:
  US 20170173262A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/06 Children, e.g. for attention deficit diagnosis
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0004 characterised by the type of physiological signal transmitted
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1451 for interstitial fluid
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4839 combined with drug delivery
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/746 Alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details of setting alarm thresholds or avoiding false alarms alarms per se G08B
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3592 using telemetric means, e.g. radio or optical transmission
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/505 Touch-screens; Virtual keyboard or keypads; Virtual buttons; Soft keys; Mouse touches
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/80 voice-operated command
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2230/201 Glucose concentration
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14 Infusion devices, e.g. infusing by gravity; Blood infusion; Accessories therefor
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/1723 using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood-sugar, pressure measurement of body parameters A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/6245 Protecting personal data, e.g. for financial or medical purposes
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/17 delivered via infusion or injection
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

There is disclosed a medical system comprising one or more sensors associated with one or more actuators. Various embodiments describe sensors and/or actuators, logic circuits, user interfaces, association schemes, communication schemes, security schemes, cryptographic schemes, medical management rules, social mechanisms, energy management schemes, time and/or space schemes, body analytes and/or biomarkers, blood glucose and/or interstitial glucose sensors, drug delivery devices, continuous glucose monitoring devices, as well as flash glucose monitoring devices. Methods, software and other hardware aspects are described.

Claims

1. A medical system comprising one or more sensors associated with one or more actuators.

2. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more logic circuits configured to control and/or to interact with one or more of said sensors and/or actuators.

3. The system of claim 1, further comprising one or more user interfaces.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein parts of the medical system are arranged and/or configured according to association schemes.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system or parts thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more communication schemes.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system or parts thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more security schemes.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system or parts thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more cryptographic schemes.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system, parts thereof and/or the control thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more medical management rules.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system, parts thereof and/or the control thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more social mechanisms.

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system, parts thereof and/or the control thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more energy management schemes.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein the medical system, parts thereof and/or the control thereof are arranged and/or configured according to one or more time and/or space schemes.

12. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one sensor determines the concentration of an analyte and/or of a biomarker.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one sensor is minimally-invasive or non-invasive.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one actuator is implementable.

15. The system of claim 1, comprising a contact lens and/or a spectrometer and/or a drone and/or a wearable computer.

16. The system of claim 12, wherein the analyte is blood and/or interstitial glucose.

17. The system of claim 1, wherein at least one actuator is a drug delivery device.

18. The system of claim 17, wherein the drug is insulin.

19. The system of claim 1, comprising a continuous glucose monitoring sensor.

20. The system of claim 1, comprising a flash glucose monitoring device associated with an electronic circuit configured to receive and/or send data to/from said flash glucose monitoring device and to/from a remote computer device such as a smartphone.