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US 12,514,735 B2Granted
Noninvasive medical brace
OwnerWilliam T. McClellan, Justin Ronald Chambersinventors
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Abstract
A rib brace includes: a sealed enclosure; an adhesive on an external side of the sealed enclosure, the adhesive configured to adhere the rib brace to a person externally and noninvasively to the person; a layered structure inside the sealed enclosure; and a port through a wall of the sealed enclosure, wherein a stiffness of the layered structure is adjustable by applying suction to an interior of the sealed enclosure via the port.
Claims20
A medical brace, comprising:
- a sealed enclosure including an external adhesive layer that is configured to be adhesively fixed against a person externally and noninvasively to the person;
- a layered structure inside the sealed enclosure;
- a port through a wall of the sealed enclosure;
- at least one deflection sensor on the medical brace;
- and
- control circuitry on the medical brace, wherein the at least one deflection sensor is operatively connected to the control circuitry, and wherein the control circuitry comprises a wired or wireless communication system that is configured to communicate with a computing device that is separate from the medical brace,
- wherein a compressive force applied to the layered structure is adjustable by applying suction to an interior of the sealed enclosure via the port.
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A medical brace, comprising:
- a sealed enclosure including an external adhesive layer that is configured to be adhesively fixed against a person externally and noninvasively to the person;
- a layered structure inside the sealed enclosure wherein layers of the layered structure comprise materials with different properties to form a composite structure;
- a port through a wall of the sealed enclosure;
- sensors on the medical brace, the sensors comprising at least one deflection sensor and at least one accelerometer;
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- control circuitry on the medical brace, wherein the sensors are operatively connected to the control circuitry, and wherein the control circuitry comprises a wired or wireless communication system that is configured to communicate with a computing device that is separate from the medical brace and that is configured to measure breathing of the person wearing the medical brace based on data from the at least one deflection sensor and the at least one accelerometer,
- wherein a compressive force of the layered structure is adjustable by applying suction to an interior of the sealed enclosure via the port.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.