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US 11,406,525 B2Granted
Ostomy monitoring system and method
Assignee11 Health and Technologies Limited
InventorsMichael Seres, Anupriya Jai Tilak Naik, David Ramirez-Ayala, Yumeng Wu, Bryan Went, Erick Went, Sabrina Kaefer, Irina Dorofeeva, Tianbin Zhao
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Abstract
An ostomy bag can include one or more sensors for measuring one or more metrics. An ostomy wafer can also include one or more sensors for measuring one or more metrics. The sensors can be temperature sensors and/or capacitive sensors, for example, and the metrics can include bag fill, leakage, skin irritation, and phase of stoma output, among others.
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An ostomy bag comprising:
- two walls joined together along a seam around at least a portion of an edge of the ostomy bag, a first one of the walls configured to be placed facing skin of a user and a second one of the walls configured to face away from the user when the first wall faces the skin of the user;
- an opening in the first wall, the opening configured to be disposed around a stoma of the user and to receive effluent from the stoma;
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- one or more sensor layers disposed in or on one of the two walls or between the two walls of the ostomy bag, the one or more sensor layers comprising a plurality of temperature sensors and a plurality of capacitive sensors,
- wherein the plurality of temperature sensors measure a temperature change due to the effluent entering the bag, and
- wherein the plurality of capacitive sensors measure a capacitance change due to the effluent entering the bag,
- the one or more sensors layer further comprising one or more wireless communication antennas, wherein when in use, the one or more antennas are in electrical communication with one or more antennas on an ostomy wafer configured to couple the first one of the walls of the ostomy bag to the skin of the user, and/or one or more antennas on an electronics hub configured to be coupled to the ostomy bag on the second one of the walls.
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An ostomy bag comprising:
- two walls joined together along a seam around at least a portion of an edge of the ostomy bag, a first one of the walls configured to be placed facing skin of a user and a second one of the walls configured to face away from the user when the first wall faces the skin of the user;
- an opening in the first wall, the opening configured to be disposed around a stoma of the user and to receive effluent from the stoma;
- a sensor layer disposed in or on one of the two walls or between the two walls of the ostomy bag, the sensor layer comprising a plurality of temperature sensors and a plurality of capacitive sensors,
- wherein the plurality of temperature sensors measure a temperature change due to the effluent entering the bag, and
- wherein the plurality of capacitive sensors measure a capacitance change due to the effluent entering the bag,
- the sensor layer further comprising one or more wireless communication antennas, wherein when in use, the one or more antennas are in electrical communication with one or more antennas on an ostomy wafer configured to couple the first one of the walls of the ostomy bag to the skin of the user, and/or one or more antennas on a hub configured to be coupled to the ostomy bag on the second one of the walls;
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- an insulation layer disposed between the sensor layer and one of the two walls of the ostomy bag.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.