Protective Patient Footwear Design and Manufacturing System and Methods
OwnerJason R. Hanftinventor
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Abstract
This disclosure relates to a design and manufacturing system for protective patient footwear, as well as related methods. The system includes suitable hardware, software, and related peripherals, which function to acquire data related to the patient's particular footwear needs, such as by three-dimensional scanning. A design subsystem interfaces with the inputted data to permit the resulting design to reflect particular foot conditions in the design and subsequent manufacturing process. A manufacturing subsystem receives the resulting design and includes hardware and software to manufacture the protective patient footwear.
Claims19
A computerized system for the automated design and manufacture of patient protective footwear, comprising:
- a scanning subsystem including a user interface and a lower extremity scanner, the scanning subsystem adapted to receive input related to a patient's lower extremity for which protective footwear is to be designed and manufactured;
- a computer-implemented design engine programmed to process the lower extremity input into a design for the protective footwear,
- wherein the design engine is programmed to alter the design in response to receiving inputs indicating at least one of the conditions selected from the group consisting of dermatologic conditions, orthopedic conditions, neurological conditions, biomechanical conditions, surgical conditions, and
- wherein the design engine generates an outputted design in which the one or more conditions are reflected in the outputted design;
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- wherein the system further comprises a computer-aided manufacturing subsystem programmed to receive data related to the outputted design and manufacture the protective footwear corresponding to the outputted design.
A computer-implemented method of designing and manufacturing patient protective footwear comprising the steps of:
- scanning a patient's lower extremity to detect dimensions related to the protective footwear to be designed and manufactured;
- receiving inputs indicating at least one of the lower extremity conditions selected from the group consisting of dermatologic conditions, orthopedic conditions, neurological conditions, biomechanical conditions, and surgical conditions
- generating a design in which the one or more conditions corresponding to the inputs received are reflected in the design;
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- manufacturing the protective footwear based on the design.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.