Quotables
"For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
Alice Kahn
PatentStorm News
Make the Most of Our Site
See this month's Top Inventors and Most Cited Patents.
Stay on top of the latest innovations by subscribing to an RSS feed.
Registered users: Manage your profile.
| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7557718 | Lack of patient movement monitor and method A lack of patient movement monitor and method. The monitor and method patient support includes a plurality of sensors located beneath a patient support to determine movement of a patient. An alarm is activated when patient movement over time is determined to be lack... | 07/07/2009 |
| 7554452 | Ingestible tracking and locating device The present invention relates generally to an electronic tracking and locating system. More specifically, it discloses an electronic tracking and locating system, having a biocompatible housing such that it may be located within the body, either temporarily or for a... | 06/30/2009 |
| 7551092 | Sanitary monitoring system to monitor the hand sanitation of health care workers or other required sanitary activities A monitoring system for health care workers or other workers where sanitary hand-washing is required, to detect the sanitary cleaning of hands upon entry and exit of a required or designated clean area includes a plurality of individual RFID devices located within t... | 06/23/2009 |
| 7548168 | 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. ... | 06/16/2009 |
| 7545281 | 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... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545279 | Condition-analyzing device A condition analysis apparatus capable of grasping the condition of an object easily and accurately is provided. The condition analysis apparatus 1 includes a three-dimensional sensor 10 for measuring sampling-point-moves in the height direction of an ... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7545280 | Security screening and support system A personnel security screening and control system includes a screening center having a threat screening system incorporating a sample collector and a sample analyzer. The sample collector obtains a threat sample from the subject which is subsequently analyzed by the... | 06/09/2009 |
| 7541935 | 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 caregiver in a network of caregivers. One such system includes a plurality of strips adhered in spaced-apart relation on a ... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7541934 | Method and device for fall prevention and detection Method and device for fall prevention and detection, specially for the elderly care based on digital image analysis using an intelligent optical sensor. The fall detection is divided into two main steps; finding the person on the floor, and examining the way in whic... | 06/02/2009 |
| 7535367 | Airplane lavatory reservation system The present invention is an apparatus, system, and method for providing reservations for lavatory use in airplanes. In one embodiment, a passenger on an airplane may submit a lavatory reservation request to the system. The reservation system assigns an access code t... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7532125 | System and method for worker supervision Systems and methods applicable, for instance, in the supervision of workers. A worker device may, for example, be employed to access a storage element associated with a workplace location, and/or a sensor may capture. The worker device might, for example, provide to... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7532126 | Remote homecare monitoring system and method thereof The present invention discloses a remote homecare monitoring system that includes a behavior detector, an image capture device, and a gateway. The behavior detector detects an abnormal activity behavior, and the image capture device captures image data of a user's c... | 05/12/2009 |
| 7528729 | System and method for providing visual and physiological cues in a matching system A system and method for displaying a match alert. First and second user monitors are configured to communicate with an interrogator to establish the presence of the user monitors in a defined space. An information server is configured to determine whether profiles o... | 05/05/2009 |
| 7525440 | Person monitoring A person monitoring system, such as a baby monitor a monitored unit including a microphone for transducing radiated sound waves and sound waves emanating from the person to a received audio signal and circuitry for removing from the received audio signal a portion o... | 04/28/2009 |
| 7522057 | System and method for non intrusive monitoring of “at-risk” individuals Disclosed is a system and method for monitoring one or more humans while maintaining the privacy of those individuals. The system includes one or more activity pickups that create one or more respective information outputs. A computer system monitors one or more of ... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7522058 | System and method for social networking in a virtual space Social networking in a virtual space over a network is facilitated. Subscriber computing devices each operated by a subscriber are associated with a subscriber identifier. Each computing device is connected to the network. A subscriber profile is created in a profil... | 04/21/2009 |
| 7515054 | Biosensors, communicators, and controllers monitoring eye movement and methods for using them Biosensor, communicator, and/or controller apparatus, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring movement of a person's eye. The apparatus includes a device configured to be worn on a user's head, a light source for directing light towards one or both eyes of ... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7511623 | In-residence monitoring system incorporating voice output A system for monitoring health related parameters of an individual can determine the existence of one or more health related conditions that may need attention. Verbal messages, responsive to the determined condition, can be automatically transmitted via one or more... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511624 | Optical detection of oscillating targets using modulation of scattered laser light The present invention provides systems and methods using a temporal-frequency sensitive receiver to detect laser light that is scattered by an oscillating object, thereby allowing remote monitoring of the object's position and movement. ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7511625 | Mine safety system A system and/or method for increasing safety in areas in which people work and/or through which people travel that potentially may become blocked (e.g. mines, mineshafts, tunnels, etc.) is provided. In certain example embodiments, a system and/or method is provided ... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7508310 | System and method for secure networking in a virtual space Secure networking in a virtual space over a network. Subscriber computing devices each operated by a subscriber are associated with a subscriber identifier. Each computing device is connected to the network. A subscriber security profile is created in a security pro... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508307 | Home health and medical monitoring method and service A health monitoring method and system utilizes a bedside device to monitor breathing patterns and other health measuring signals and communicates these patterns and signals to a medical monitoring station. The medical monitoring service analyzes the signals for heal... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508308 | Tracking apparatus and method, as for an exhibition A method and system for conducting an exhibition wherein a visitor having a visitor smart tag visits a plurality of stations comprises a plurality of stations each having a smart tag reader and an electronic memory associated therewith for storing information, e.g.,... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7508309 | System for wireless mobile seating platform A system (and method) includes a seating platform, at least one sensor for detecting a state of the seating platform connected to a first wireless communications device, the first wireless communications device for conveying information on the state of the seating p... | 03/24/2009 |
| 7504954 | Radio frequency identification pharmaceutical tracking system and method An ingestible dosage form includes a pill containing a pharmaceutical content and an RF tag associated with the pill. The RF tag is configured to output a wireless response signal in response to a wireless excitation signal received by the RF tag from an RF reader. ... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504955 | Pressure relief reminder and associated method for the prevention of pressure sores An apparatus and method for preventing the formation of pressure sores on the skin of an individual is provided. The apparatus includes an inclination sensor for detecting a change in inclination of an object holding the individual. A microprocessor is in communicat... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7504956 | System and method for pest detection Systems and methods for detecting presence and movement of pests. Various embodiments of a pest detection system can be based on, for example, a beam-interrupt detector or a thermal imaging device. The beam-interrupt detection based system can provide functionalitie... | 03/17/2009 |
| 7495569 | Composition for sanitizing hands and a method for verifying and monitoring hand washing and sanitizing practices A method for measuring skin surface pH on sites on the hands and/or lower arm is devised for verifying and monitoring of proper hand washing and sanitizing practices. Hand sanitizer compositions are devised that allow for verifying and monitoring of proper hand sani... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7495568 | JMX administration of RFID edge server An RFID edge server using an application server allows for improvements in an RFID system. ... | 02/24/2009 |
| 7492267 | Tracking methods and systems using RFID tags Systems and methods of using RFID tags for verifying and tracking articles are provided. A method of tracking articles for shipment comprises the steps of providing at least one article comprising a plurality of subarticles; applying an article radio frequency ident... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7492268 | Human movement measurement system A system for measuring the position of transponders for testing and training a user to manipulate the position of the transponders while being guided by interactive and sensory feedback through a bidirectional communication link to a processing system for the purpos... | 02/17/2009 |
| 7489251 | Real-time tracing, transmitting and analyzing system for flight animals A real-time tracing, transmitting and analyzing system for flight animals is disclosed. The real-time tracing, transmitting and analyzing system has a tracing and transmitting device with a weight between 1 and 10 grams. The tracing and transmitting device is fasten... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489249 | Apparatus and method for determining the attitude of a remotely monitored device An apparatus and method for the determination of the attitude of a remotely monitored device attached or non-attached to the body of a remotely monitored person is disclosed. The device attitude is determined by two tilt-over switches having pre-defined operating an... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7489250 | Method and apparatus for controlling an alarm while monitoring A method for monitoring a subject can include acquiring data from the subject, and dynamically adjusting an alarm limit based on the data. The method can also comprise determining a first value that is typical for the subject for the characteristic being monitored, ... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7486193 | Occupancy sensor network An occupancy sensor includes an acoustic transmitter and an acoustic receiver each operably coupled to a controller. The sensor further includes a communication interface operably coupled to the controller and capable of transmitting and receiving communication sign... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7482936 | Hand cleanliness An electronic sensor is configured to be carried by a person and to be used by the person to detect a cleanliness state of the person's hands. A single unit includes the electronic sensor and (a) a device to provide an indication of the cleanliness state of the pers... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7482935 | Baby health monitoring system The present application discloses a a baby health monitoring device comprising a skin temperature sensor connected to a microprocessor for mathematically converting the sensed temperature to corrected skin temperature; a movement sensor; a display screen for indicat... | 01/27/2009 |
| 7479889 | Locator system A locator system for locating a person, animal or mobile object for use with a cellular network, the locator system including a fob containing a GSM transceiver for communication with the cellular network, a GPS unit for indicating the location of a person, animal o... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7479890 | System and method for analyzing activity of a body The present invention comprises a system and method of operation for evaluating body activity relative to an environment. According to an exemplary embodiment, the system comprises a processor that is associable with a sensor for sensing dynamic and static accelerat... | 01/20/2009 |
| 7477153 | System for wireless mobile seating platform A system includes a mobile seating platform, a wireless communications system embedded within the seating platform, and a haptic system embedded in the seating platform. The haptic system includes a plurality of vibrators disposed at a plurality of positions in the ... | 01/13/2009 |
