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US 11,298,297 B2Granted
Baby bottle sensor with content volume sensing and content deduction logic
AssigneeZak Wood
InventorZak Wood
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Abstract
A baby bottle sensor with content deduction logic is attachable to a baby bottle. The sensor uses programmed logic to deduce whether formula or some other fluid is being fed. Collected data is stored and reported to a paired Bluetooth device.
Claims20
A baby bottle sensor with content deduction logic, comprising:
- a motion sensor adapted to determine an orientation of the baby bottle sensor with respect to a horizon, and to detect motion of the baby bottle sensor in real time;
- and
- a central processing unit that executes program instructions to receive signals from the motion sensor and further adapted to analyze the received signals to:
- determine whether movements indicative of a mixing action for mixing formula powder with water in the baby bottle occurs prior to receiving signals indicative of a feeding of the baby from the baby bottle;
- deduce from the received signals whether formula that requires mixing, or some fluid that does not require mixing is contained in the baby bottle;
- and
- record the deduction in an electronic bottle record associated with the baby bottle.
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A baby bottle sensor with content deduction logic, comprising:
- a motion sensor adapted to determine an orientation of the baby bottle sensor with respect to a horizon, and to detect motion of the baby bottle sensor in real time;
- and
- a central processing unit that executes program instructions to receive signals from the motion sensor and further adapted to analyze the received signals to:
- determine if an open bottle record exists in a memory of the baby bottle sensor when the received signals indicate that the baby bottle sensor is in motion;
- create an electronic botte record if no electronic bottle record is open in the memory and the central processing unit determines that a baby bottle is attached to the baby bottle sensor;
- determine whether movements indicative of a mixing action for mixing formula powder with water in the baby bottle occurs prior to receiving signals indicative of a feeding of the baby from the baby bottle;
- deduce from the received signals whether formula that requires mixing, or some fluid that does no require mixing is contained in the baby bottle;
- and
- record the deduction in the electronic bottle record associated with the baby bottle.
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A baby bottle sensor with content deduction logic, comprising:
- a baby bottle sensor base upon which a baby bottle attached to the baby bottle sensor rests;
- a motion sensing system that includes a digital accelerometer and a digital gyroscope, the motion sensing system being adapted to generate signals analyzed by a central processing unit to determine an orientation of the baby bottle sensor with respect to a horizon, and detect motion of the baby bottle sensor in real time;
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- the central processing unit further adapted to execute program instructions receive signals from the motion sensor and further adapted to analyze the received signals to:
- determine whether movements indicative of a mixing action for mixing formula powder with water in the baby bottle occurs prior to receiving signals indicative of a feeding of the baby from the baby bottle;
- deduce from the received signals whether formula that requires mixing, or some fluid that does not require mixing is contained in the baby bottle;
- and
- record the deduction in an electronic bottle record associated with the baby bottle;
- and
- a short-range wireless communications transceiver adapted to receive data from the central processing unit and communicate the data to a paired Bluetooth device that runs programs instructions for receiving and processing the data and displaying the processed data in a user interface of the paired Bluetooth device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.