Systems, devices, and methods including intestinal microbial flora mapping
AssigneeElwha LLC
InventorsRoderick A. Hyde, Lowell L. Wood, JR.
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Abstract
Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing, among other things, devices operable to acquire intestinal microbial flora samples, to map intestinal microbial flora, to identify microbes present in an individual's digestive tract, to delivery intestinal microbial flora compositions, to register a microbial flora collection events, to register microbial flora-seeding events, or the like.
Claims39
-109. (canceled)
An intestinal-microbial-flora-seeding suppository, comprising:
- a housing structure;
- a plurality of microbial flora reservoirs received within the housing structure;
- a plurality of selectively actuatable delivery ports operably coupled to one or more of the plurality of microbial flora reservoirs, the plurality of selectively actuatable delivery ports effective to deliver an intestinal microbial flora composition received in one more of the plurality of microbial flora reservoirs to an exterior environment;
- a microbial flora delivery module including circuitry configured to actuate the delivery of the intestinal microbial flora composition from one or more the plurality of microbial flora reservoirs to an exterior environment of the housing structure responsive to user-specific microbial flora seeding information.
A method of delivering microbial flora within an intestinal tract, comprising:
- registering at least a first intestinal anatomical target along an intestinal tract to user-specific intestinal registration information;
- and
- delivering, via an electronic suppository, a microbial flora composition to the first intestinal anatomical target.
An article of manufacture, comprising:
- a non-transitory signal-bearing medium bearing
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to register at least a first intestinal anatomical target along an intestinal tract to user-specific intestinal registration information;
- and
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to deliver, via an electronic suppository, a microbial flora composition to the first intestinal anatomical target responsive to registration information indicative of a target location.
The article of manufacture 142, further comprising:
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to register at least a second intestinal anatomical target;
- and
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to deliver, via the electronic suppository, a microbial flora composition to the second anatomical target.
The article of manufacture 142, further comprising:
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to generate microbial flora delivery registration information associated with delivery of the microbial flora composition to the first intestinal anatomical target.
The article of manufacture 142, further comprising:
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to generate microbial flora delivery registration information associated with delivery of the microbial flora composition to the first intestinal anatomical target, the microbial flora delivery registration information including one or more of an intestinal anatomical target identification, intestinal anatomical target location, an intestinal anatomical target shape, an intestinal anatomical target dimension, an intestinal anatomical target distribution, and a point cloud associated with an intestinal anatomical target.
The article of manufacture 142, further comprising:
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to register a plurality of intestinal anatomical targets;
- and
- one or more instruction for causing a computing device to generate at least a first-in-time microbial flora composition delivery target and a second-in-time microbial flora composition delivery target responsive to registering the plurality of intestinal anatomical targets.
-201. (canceled)
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.