US 11,998,367 B2Granted

Assistive technology for operating nursing homes and other health care facilities

AssigneeJ. Brasch Co., LLC

InventorsJohn Brasch, Gordon Smith

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Abstract

A facility for coordinating the safety care of a person is described. The facility receives sensor output indicating that the person has departed a place of repose. In response to this receiving, the facility establishes an alarm identifying the person, accesses a set of on-duty caregivers, and applies one or more precedence rules to establish a precedence among at least a portion of the set of on-duty caregivers. Until a caregiver has accepted the alarm, for each caregiver in the established precedence, the facility: causes a mobile device carried by the caregiver to render a message notifying the caregiver of the alarm and soliciting the caregiver's acceptance of the alarm; and allows the caregiver an interval of time of a first predetermined length in which to accept the alarm before proceeding to the next caregiver in the established precedence.

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Dependent claims

One or more computer memories collectively having contents configured to cause a mobile device configured to be carried by a caregiver at a residential facility to perform a method, the method comprising:

displaying, via a user interface of the mobile device, information identifying a location in which a resident of the residential facility is predicted to be in need of assistance at a future time, wherein the prediction is based on output from sensors near the identified location, and wherein the mobile device is remote from the resident and is selected from a plurality of mobile devices based on (a) a proximity between the identified location and a location of the mobile device and (b) a period of time during which the caregiver has not responded to the predicted need of assistance;
displaying, via the user interface, a control activatable to indicate that a person carrying the mobile device is undertaking to provide assistance in the identified location;
displaying another control activatable to indicate that the person carrying the mobile device will not undertake to provide assistance in the identified location;
receiving input activating the displayed other control to indicate that the person carrying the mobile device will not undertake to provide assistance in the identified location;
and
in response to receiving the input, contemporaneously with receiving the input, sending to a server a notification identifying the mobile device that reflects receiving the input.

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A method, comprising:

displaying, via a mobile device, information identifying a location in which a resident of a residential facility is predicted to be in need of assistance at a future time, wherein the prediction is based on output from sensors near the identified location, and wherein the mobile device is remote from the resident and is selected from a plurality of mobile devices based on (a) a proximity between the identified location and a location of the mobile device and (b) a period of time during which a caregiver associated with the mobile device has not responded to the predicted need of assistance;
displaying, via the mobile device, a control activatable to indicate that a person carrying the mobile device is undertaking to provide assistance in the identified location;
displaying another control activatable to indicate that the person carrying the mobile device will not undertake to provide assistance in the identified location;
receiving input activating the displayed other control to indicate that the person carrying the mobile device will not undertake to provide assistance in the identified location;
and
in response to receiving the input, contemporaneously with receiving the input, sending to a server a notification identifying the mobile device that reflects receiving the input.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/364,192Filed 30 Jun 2021 · continuation
Priority: 13 Oct 2017
Published: US 2021/0321959 A121 Oct 2021
Granted: 4 Jun 2024
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification23 codes

A61B 5/746
Details of notification to user or communication with user or patient; User input means: alarms related to a physiological condition, e.g. details…
A61B 5/002
Characterised by features of the telemetry system: monitoring the patient using a local or closed circuit, e.g. in a room or building
A61B 5/0077
Using light, e.g. diagnosis by transillumination, diascopy, fluorescence: devices for viewing the surface of the body, e.g. camera, magnifying lens
A61B 5/1115
Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home: monitoring leaving of a patient support, e.g. a bed or a wheelchair

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Application62/572,379Us provisional application · filed 13 Oct 2017
Application62/572,373Us provisional application · filed 13 Oct 2017
Application62/580,928Us provisional application · filed 2 Nov 2017
Application62/643,695Us provisional application · filed 15 Mar 2018
Application62/691,960Us provisional application · filed 29 Jun 2018
Application16/159,412Parent of this continuation · filed 12 Oct 2018
US 2021/0321959 A1Pre-grant publication · published 21 Oct 2021
US 11,083,419 B2Parent of this continuation
US 2019/0110761 A1Published application
US 11,998,367 B2This patent

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