# US 2025/0166833 A1 · Apparatus, method, and program that provide total healthcare solution service through companion animal hair analysis

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- Number: US 2025/0166833 A1
- Document ID: US20250166833A1
- Status: Published application
- Kind: A1
- Application number: 18/840,721
- Filed: 2023-02-03
- Published: 2025-05-22
- Earliest claimed: 2022-02-22
- Assignees: Precision and Personalized Medicine Incorporation (Ppmi)
- Applicants: Precision and Personalized Medicine Incorporation (Ppmi)
- Inventors: Tai Gyu LEE; Yujin EOM
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20250166833A1

## CPC

- G16H 50/30: for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
- G01N 33/4833: {of solid biological material, e.g. tissue samples, cell cultures (tissue in vivo A61B5/00; cell suspensions G01N33/48735)}
- G16H 10/20: for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
- G16H 10/60: for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
- G16H 20/60: relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
- G16H 50/20: for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
- H01J 49/105: {using high-frequency excitation, e.g. microwave excitation, Inductively Coupled Plasma [ICP]}
- G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA
- G01N: INVESTIGATING OR ANALYSING MATERIALS BY DETERMINING THEIR CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROPERTIES (measuring or testing apparatus or processes other than immunoassay, involving enzymes or microorganisms C12M, C12Q)
- H01J: ELECTRIC DISCHARGE TUBES OR DISCHARGE LAMPS (spark-gaps H01T; electric arc lamps H05B31/00; particle accelerators H05H)

## Abstract

An apparatus for providing a companion animal menu platform service including a companion animal information receiving unit for receiving companion animal information on a companion animal of a user from a user terminal of the user; a nutrition information generating unit for determining, for the companion animal, daily intake calories, an intake-restricted material, an intake-restricted nutrient, a first protein ratio, a first fat ratio, and a first fiber ratio, contained in food, on the basis of the companion animal information; a material determining unit for determining a plurality of materials on the basis of the companion animal information, determining, as a plurality of first preliminary materials, the remaining materials excluding a material corresponding to the intake-restricted material, among the materials, determining, as a plurality of second preliminary materials, the remaining materials excluding first preliminary material containing the intake-restricted nutrient, among the first preliminary materials.

## Claims

### Claim 1

An apparatus for providing a total healthcare solution service through companion animal hair analysis, the apparatus comprising:
a hair analysis result reception part configured to receive a hair analysis result that comprises a mineral level of each of a plurality of nutritional minerals comprised in hair of a user's companion animal and a heavy metal level of each of a plurality of harmful heavy metals comprised in the hair; and
a solution analysis part configured to compare the mineral level of each of the nutritional minerals with a standard range corresponding to each of the nutritional minerals so as to classify the nutritional mineral into a management-requiring nutritional mineral or a standard nutritional mineral, and to compare the heavy metal level of each of the harmful heavy metals with the safe level corresponding to each of the harmful heavy metals so as to classify the harmful heavy metals into a harmful heavy metal to be cautious of or a safe-level harmful heavy metal.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the solution analysis part:
determines a nutritional mineral, whose mineral level is not comprised in the standard range, among the nutritional minerals as the management-requiring nutritional mineral, determines a nutritional mineral, whose mineral level is comprised in the standard range, among the nutritional minerals as the standard nutritional mineral,
determines a harmful heavy metal, whose heavy metal level is equal to or higher than the safe level, among the harmful heavy metals as the harmful heavy metal to be cautious of, and
determines a harmful heavy metal, whose heavy metal level is smaller than the safe level, among the harmful heavy metals as the safe-level harmful heavy metal.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:
a companion animal information reception part configured to receive companion animal information comprising information on age, neutering, weight, personality, species, breed, body type, activity information, disease, staple diet, and snacks of the companion animal from a terminal of the user, receive a first survey result comprising a response to a first survey that comprises a plurality of questions about each of the harmful heavy metals, and receive a second survey result comprising a response to a second survey comprising a plurality of questions about each of the nutritional minerals; and
a recommendation test decision part configured to input the companion animal information and the first survey result as input values into a first machine-learning model that has been previously learned, obtain a first possibility that an abnormality related to the harmful heavy metals exits from the first machine-learning model, input the companion animal information and the second survey result as input values into a second machine-learning model that has been previously learned, obtain a second possibility that an abnormality related to the nutritional minerals exists from the second machine-learning model, and determine a test to be recommended to the user among a first test, second test and third test that have been preset based on the first possibility and the second possibility,
wherein the first test tests a health status of the companion animal related to the nutritional minerals,
the second test tests a health status of the companion animal related to the harmful heavy metals, and
the third test tests a health status of the companion animal related to the nutritional minerals and the harmful heavy metals.

### Claim 4 (depends on 3)

The apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the solution analysis part:
inputs information on the age, neutering status, weight, personality, species, breed and body shape comprised in the companion animal information as input values into a third machine-learning model that has been previously learned and obtains the safe level of each of the harmful heavy metals from the third machine-learning model, and
inputs information on the age, neutering status, weight, personality, species, breed and body shape comprised in the companion animal information as input values into a fourth machine-learning model that has been previously learned and obtains the standard range of each of the nutritional minerals from the fourth machine-learning model.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the nutritional minerals comprise calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, copper, zinc, iron, manganese, chromium and selenium, and the harmful heavy metals comprise mercury, arsenic, cadmium, lead, aluminum, nickel and uranium, and
the hair analysis result comprises:
a plurality of first indices comprising a ratio of the mineral level of the magnesium to the mineral level of the calcium, a ratio of the mineral level of the phosphorus to the mineral level of the calcium, a ratio of the mineral level of the potassium to the mineral level of the sodium, a ratio of the mineral level of the copper to the mineral level of the zinc, a ratio of the mineral level of the magnesium to the mineral level of the sodium and a ratio of the mineral level of the potassium to the mineral level of the calcium; and
a plurality of second indices comprising a ratio of the heavy metal level of the mercury to the mineral level of the zinc, a ratio of the heavy metal level of the mercury to the mineral level of the selenium, a ratio of the heavy metal level of the lead to the mineral level of the calcium, a ratio of the heavy metal level of the lead to the mineral level of the iron, a ratio of the heavy metal level of the lead to the mineral level of the zinc and a ratio of the heavy metal level of the cadmium to the mineral level of the zinc.