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US 12,696,014 B2Granted
Oral care monitoring and habit forming for children
OwnerEric Enyang Huang, Xiongbing Suninventors
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Abstract
A brushing tracker configured to be mounted to a toothbrush has a motion sensor and a transceiver that collect and output raw motion data. The raw motion data is received by a relay and forwarded to a cloud-based remote processing system that processes the raw motion data to determine brushing adequacy based on predetermined criteria. The motion sensor and transceiver are disposed in a flexible case. An attachment band enables the brushing tracker to be affixed to a standard toothbrush for use and affixed to a different toothbrush when desired.
Claims20
A toothbrushing monitoring system, comprising:
- a first use-monitoring toothbrush configured to output packets of motion data in response to detection of motion;
- and
- a remote processing system configured to:
- receive, at overlapping periods of time and in variable order, the packets of motion data outputted by the first use-monitoring toothbrush and first packets of motion data outputted by a plurality of other use-monitoring toothbrushes;
- identify subsets of the received packets of motion data and the received first packets of motion data that are associated with same brushing activities associated with the first use-monitoring toothbrush and each of the plurality of other use-monitoring toothbrushes, wherein a same brushing activity of the same brushing activities is a single brushing session performed with a single toothbrush;
- arrange the received packets of motion data and the received first packets of motion data of each subset of the subsets in proper order;
- and
- process the received packets of motion data and the received first packets of motion data of each subset to generate brushing data for each same brushing activity of the same brushing activities.
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A method, comprising:
- outputting, by a first use-monitoring toothbrush, packets of motion data in response to detection of motion;
- and
- with a remote processing system:
- receiving, at overlapping periods of time and in variable order, the packets of motion data outputted by the first use-monitoring toothbrush and first packets of motion data outputted by a plurality of other use-monitoring toothbrushes;
- identifying subsets of the received packets of motion data and the received first packets of motion data that are associated with same brushing activities associated with the first use-monitoring toothbrush and each of the plurality of other use-monitoring toothbrushes, wherein a same brushing activity of the same brushing activities is a single brushing session performed with a single toothbrush;
- arranging the received packets of motion data and the received first packets of motion data of each subset of the subsets in proper order;
- and
- processing the received packets of motion data and the received first packets of motion data of each subset to generate brushing data for each same brushing activity of the same brushing activities.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.