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...that in 1800 ether was first used by partyers as a fun diversion? Sniffing the gas led to hilarious and raucous laughter as people watched each other become more and more intoxicated and silly. Several doctors independently realized the value ether would have to anesthetize surgery patients. Of those who claimed rights to the "discovery," none had a happy ending. One had a seizure and died defending his rights. Another spent his life in an asylum because he had been denied acclaim. A third became addicted to chloroform and, in a New York City jail, he soaked a cloth in the drug, severed an artery and bled to death.
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| 8188869 | Kits and methods for monitoring and tracking animals A kit monitoring and tracking the location of at least one animal includes a GPS implant designed to be transplanted subcutaneously into an animal, and capable of communicating spatial information related to the location of the animal. A first receiver allows the us... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8188868 | Systems for activating and/or authenticating electronic devices for operation with apparel Articles of clothing or pieces of athletic equipment include modules, e.g., for sensing physical and/or physiological characteristics associated with use of the clothing or athletic equipment or for performing other functions. Such systems and methods may use physic... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8179268 | System for automatic fall detection for elderly people Apparatus for detection of human falls, comprises: an acceleration detector, for detecting vibration events, typically placed on a floor, a microphone, located in association with the acceleration detector for detection of corresponding sound events, and a classific... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174394 | System for noninvasive determination of analytes in tissue An apparatus and method for noninvasive determination of analyte properties of human tissue by quantitative infrared spectroscopy to clinically relevant levels of precision and accuracy. The system includes subsystems optimized to contend with the complexities of th... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174395 | Transceiver unit in a measurement system A measurement system may comprise a sensor wire and a transceiver unit. The sensor wire may comprise an insertable portion configured to be inserted in a blood vessel of a patient's body and a sensor disposed within the insertable portion at a distal end of the sens... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169327 | Information sharing hygiene apparatus A method and apparatus are disclosed which involve an improved way to coerce use of a soap dispenser (or other hygiene device). A soap dispenser according to at least one embodiment, includes a teaching or entertaining device that is fun and informative that is trig... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169325 | Portable hand wash monitoring system and method An identification badge worn by an individual is sensed when that individual enters a lavatory area. The individual is also provided with an indicator device which is worn on or about the hands. Inside or in proximity to the lavatory, there is also provided a hand c... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169326 | Portable electronic device and computer software product The invention relates to a portable electronic device and computer software product. The portable electronic device comprises a motion detector for generating motion data characterizing the local movement of the portable electronic device, a motion intensity determi... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169324 | System for tracking objects A system is provided of tracking objects loaded into a receptacle, where the receptacle defines a chamber having an open side for receiving the objects and has a perimeter about the open side. The system comprises a radio frequency identification antenna spaced from... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164461 | Monitoring task performance One system embodiment includes providing a number of sensors for monitoring an individual in performing a number of tasks from a list of tasks to be completed, the number of tasks each including, an associated number of steps to be completed by the individual, monit... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164462 | Geese chasing system The geese chasing system includes of a housing encasing a visual signaling capability, sensor, and audio signaling capability. A plurality of housings can be installed upon the nose and wings of an aircraft in order to direct more signaling strength as well as to ac... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159353 | Portable electronic device, method, and computer-readable medium for determining user's activity level The invention relates to a portable electronic device, a method, and a computer software product. The portable electronic device comprises an active time unit for determining a user activity level during a predetermined period of time; and a processing unit for dete... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159352 | Personal care implement having a display A personal care implement or toothbrush includes a display for providing content to a user. The display may be configured to present content in a mirror-image format. The personal care implement may be configured to operate in one or more modes of operation. In a cl... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159354 | Human movement measurement system A system for use in playing a video game, the system acting to measure the position of transponders for testing and to train the user to manipulate the position of the transponders while being guided by interactive and sensory feedback. A bidirectional communication... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154413 | System and methods for monitoring caregiver performance Systems and methods for monitoring the performance of a caregiver are disclosed. The systems may be configured to monitor the movement of each subject in a network of subjects. One such system includes a plurality of strips adhered in spaced-apart relation on a matt... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154412 | Hand wash monitoring system and method An identification badge worn by an individual is sensed when that individual enters a lavatory. The individual is also provided with an indicator device which is worn on or about the hands. Inside the lavatory, there is also provided a hand cleaning station which in... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154411 | System and method for person or object position location utilizing impulse radio A System and Method for Person or Object Position Location Utilizing Impulse Radio, comprising a plurality of reference impulse radios; an object or person to be tracked having a mobile impulse radio associated therewith; an architecture with an associated positioni... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149124 | Personal security and tracking system A signaling system is provided for rendering an alarm for an individual in distress combined with a locating and tracking system to thus alert and direct appropriate personnel to the needs of the individual in distress and to monitor the location of that individual.... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8138926 | Methods and apparatus for monitoring and guiding human subjects interacting with objects Motion detecting devices may be used to help monitor and guide human subjects interacting with objects. An activity monitoring station may receive an interaction schedule for a human subject. The schedule may list objects with which the human subject is scheduled to... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8130105 | Noninvasive multi-parameter patient monitor Embodiments of the present disclosure include a handheld multi-parameter patient monitor capable of determining multiple physiological parameters from the output of a light sensitive detector capable of detecting light attenuated by body tissue. For example, in an e... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125343 | System for child safety A system for child safety relating to a child safety seat that is in communication with the internal wiring or computer system of a vehicle such that when the vehicle ignition is turned off and the child safety seat is engaged, an audible alert is emitted through th... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120499 | Baby cord The present invention, in one embodiment, is a belt like device comprised of two sections connected together with magnets. The free ends of the two sections can be equipped with clips for securing each section to either child or caregiver. When the caregiver gets ou... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120498 | Capturing body movement related to a fixed coordinate system Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, a kinematic sensor may be carried by or on one or more body segments of a user to obtain one or more kinematic variables based at least in part on movement of the user with respect to a fixed, global reference sys... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115640 | Implantable medical device alert management Exemplary systems and methods for automatically managing implantable medical device (IMD) related alerts are described. One method receives implantable medical device-related alerts. The method automatically manages the implantable medical device alerts by parsing t... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115641 | Automatic fall detection system A system and a method for detecting if a person has fallen down is provided. The system includes at least two sensors which remotely detect energy in at least two zones. The output of the sensors are analyzed and compared to characteristics which are determined to b... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106781 | Device for monitoring the condition of a human being A device for continuously monitoring one or more indicators relating to the health or comfort of a person 12 includes one or more sensing means for measuring a value of one or more desired indicators and a communicating means 13 communicating an alarm ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8098485 | Wireless network sensors for detecting events occurring proximate the sensors A detection sensor for detecting proximately occurring events such as traffic patterns. The detection sensor includes a housing having several apertures and a wireless network sensor located in the housing. The wireless network sensor has several sensors for detecti... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8098163 | Birth monitoring system for piglets The number of piglets dying at birth is reduced by providing a temperature sensor in a farrowing crate at the piglet area thereof on a movable cover so that, when the sow is expected to give birth, the sensor is located in the crate at a location to detect the prese... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8094029 | System for monitoring and recording hand hygiene performance A hand hygiene behavior management system capable of monitoring and recording information generated by the operation of dispensers as a method of assessing behavior of a group as an indication of overall hygiene performance. The system generally includes a plurality... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8089363 | Method and system for providing data management in data monitoring system Method and system for providing a fault tolerant data receiver unit configured with a partitioned or separate processing units, each configured to perform a predetermined and/or specific processing associated with the one or more substantially non-overlapping functi... | 01/03/2012 |
| 8085154 | Circuit and method for providing an improved bed pad monitor system A circuit and method for providing an improved bed pad, seatbelt or floor mat sensor monitoring system with the ability to detect a connection failure between the monitoring module and the target sensor by monitoring the connection for loss of data being transmitted... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085155 | Sanitizer dispensers with compliance verification A system is provided for providing compliance verification of sanitizer use from a sanitizer dispenser. The system provides for identifying individual users of one or more sanitizer dispensers through technologies such as RFID. Individual's use of sanitizer dispense... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085151 | Signal converting cradle for medical condition monitoring and management system A monitoring apparatus is disclosed which includes a receiver unit for receiving data and outputting a first alert signal based on the received data; and a docking unit comprising a converter unit which converts the first alert signal when the receiver unit is conne... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085152 | Apparatus and method for automatically selecting and executing files associated with a user An apparatus includes a media player configured for executing stored files, and a sensor connected to the media player configured for perceiving a feature of a user who approaches the apparatus and transferring the feature to the media player. The media player plays... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8085153 | Activity monitoring device A device for monitoring the activity of a user to prevent deep vein thrombosis when working. The device comprises a carrier (20) for positioning on or adjacent a user, a motion sensor (10) mounted on the carrier (20) and adapted to detect the us... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8081082 | Monitoring patterns of motion A method, computer program product, and apparatus for monitoring patterns of motion are provided. A signal is received from a sensor on a user, wherein movement of the user causes the sensor to generate power to emit a signal indicative of the movement of the user. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8059000 | Wearable/portable protection for a body In one embodiment, a particular state of a body is sensed. In response to the sensing, at least one action is taken to modulate a projected adverse interaction between the body or a portion thereof and at least one object in the environment of the body. ... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8059001 | System and method for automatic quality control of clinical diagnostic processes A system and method to automatically implement quality control of a clinical diagnostic process are disclosed. Upon generation of an internal error flag, a confirmation rule automatically checks a questionable patient statistic alert by testing a quality control spe... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8040245 | Hand washing monitor for detecting the entry and identification of a person Methods, systems, and computer-storage media provide for the monitoring of hand washing by people entering a room. A person is detected entering a room and an image of the person is captured. The person is identified as an employee using various employee identifiers... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8040246 | Systems and methods for facilitating a first response mission at an incident scene Systems and methods for facilitating a first response mission at an incident scene, such as an accident site, a natural or human-made disaster site, or any other first response site. One system comprises a plurality of portable modules for the incident scene and con... | 10/18/2011 |
