Medical devices for contemporaneous decision support in metabolic control
First Claim
1. A medical device comprising a personal assistive apparatus that computes the bio-availability of exogenous glucose and other nutrients contained in food, comprising:
- (a) an interface and control device that accepts user inputs, time stamps said inputs, and provides information for the assessment and control of ongoing metabolic states for an individual user;
(b) a data storage device containing an addressable food database and software, wherein each entry in said food database is decomposed into elementary food categories;
(c) a data storage device containing a plurality of coefficient values and time functions, wherein said coefficients and time functions describe the expected variation in time of one or more metabolites in vivo;
(d) software and a means for computing and storing predicted input time functions;
wherein one of said plurality of said time functions comprises the general formula;
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Abstract
The invention addresses hardware and software products capable to make contemporaneous accurate predictions regarding how a person'"'"'s biological system will respond to a series of stimuli. The predictions can be communicated in real time, enabling confirmation if good control status, need for corrective action, planning future actions, or even outside intervention in case of emergency. Also addressed by the invention is a family of diagnostic hardware base on intelligent optoelectronic sensors that incorporate one or more Wedge-and-Strip Position-Sensitive Photo-Detectors optimized for probabilistic real time evaluation of spectroscopy data from living subjects.
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1. A medical device comprising a personal assistive apparatus that computes the bio-availability of exogenous glucose and other nutrients contained in food, comprising:
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(a) an interface and control device that accepts user inputs, time stamps said inputs, and provides information for the assessment and control of ongoing metabolic states for an individual user;
(b) a data storage device containing an addressable food database and software, wherein each entry in said food database is decomposed into elementary food categories;
(c) a data storage device containing a plurality of coefficient values and time functions, wherein said coefficients and time functions describe the expected variation in time of one or more metabolites in vivo;
(d) software and a means for computing and storing predicted input time functions;
wherein one of said plurality of said time functions comprises the general formula;
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