Patents by Inventor Ok-Kyung Cho

Ok-Kyung Cho has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20050187442
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured non-invasively based on temperature measurement. Non-invasively measured blood sugar level values obtained by a temperature measurement scheme are corrected by blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume, thereby stabilizing the measurement data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2004
    Publication date: August 25, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim, Yukiko Ichige, Hiroshi Mitsumaki
  • Publication number: 20050182311
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured non-invasively based on temperature measurement. Non-invasively measured blood sugar level values obtained by a temperature measurement scheme are corrected by blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume, thereby stabilizing the measurement data. A guide is provided for guiding an analyte to a measurement portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim, Nobuhiko Sato, Hiroshi Mitsumaki
  • Publication number: 20050182310
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured non-invasively based on temperature measurement. Non-invasively measured blood sugar level values obtained by a temperature measurement scheme are corrected by blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume, thereby stabilizing the measurement data. The shape or color of control buttons for controlling measurement are associated with the function of each button such that the buttons can be identified either visually or by touch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2004
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim, Koji Nagata, Hiroshi Mitsumaki
  • Publication number: 20050124868
    Abstract: Body-surface temperatures are measured in order to obtain information about the dissipation of heat from a body surface and information about blood flow volume. Certain parameters are calculated from the measured temperatures, blood flow volume, and constants related to hemoglobin concentration and hemoglobin oxygen saturation. The parameters are applied to a relationship between predetermined parameters and blood sugar levels to obtain a blood sugar level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20050080324
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured in a non-invasive way based on temperature measurement. Different regression functions are used for an able-bodied person and a diabetic patient when stabilizing measurement data by correcting a non-invasively measured blood sugar level, i.e. a value obtained by temperature measurement, with blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20050070777
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for determining the blood glucose concentration reliably and accurately based on temperature data obtained from a subject without requiring blood sampling, chronological changes in the output from a temperature detecting portion are monitored. Based on those chronological changes, the making of contact between a body surface and a body surface contact portion is detected, whereupon the acquisition of measurement data is started and an advance-notice display about the timing of departure of the body surface is made. The moment of departure of the body surface from the body surface contact portion is detected, and if that moment is before the noticed timing, or in the absence of detection of the departure of the body surface from the body surface contact portion even after a certain time following the noticed timing, an error display is made on the apparatus and the measurement is reset.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2004
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20050065415
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured non-invasively based on temperature measurement. Values of blood sugar levels non-invasively measured by a temperature measuring system are corrected using blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume. Optical sensors are provided for detecting scattered light, reflected light, and light that enters into the skin which travels out of the body surface. The measurement data is stabilized by taking into consideration the influence of the thickness of skin on blood oxygen saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2004
    Publication date: March 24, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20050010094
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are non-invasively measured based on temperature measurements. An insulation structure is employed in a temperature measurement part for measuring heat amount and non-invasively obtained blood sugar level measurements are corrected by blood oxygen saturation and the volume of blood flow so that the measurement data can be stabilized and the measurement accuracy can be enhanced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Publication date: January 13, 2005
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20040260165
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are measured non-invasively based on temperature measurement. Measured blood sugar levels are corrected using blood oxygen saturation and blood flow volume. The measurement data is further stabilized by taking into consideration the influences of interfering substances on blood oxygen saturation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2003
    Publication date: December 23, 2004
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Publication number: 20040225209
    Abstract: Blood sugar levels are non-invasively measured based on temperature measurements. Blood sugar levels obtained by non-invasive measurements of temperatures are corrected by blood oxygen saturation and the volume of blood flow so that the measurement data can be stabilized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2003
    Publication date: November 11, 2004
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Yoon-Ok Kim
  • Patent number: 5924996
    Abstract: A process and device are disclosed for sensing the thermal interaction between the human body and the disclosed device. The thus obtained physical measurement data are electronically converted and may be associated in an appropriate manner to concentrations of certain components of human blood determined in an unambiguous manner, such as cholesterol, triglycerides, etc., in particular glucose. The device has at least one heat measurement unit and electronic control, regulation, evaluation and output units. The device also allows temperature measurements with high spatial and temporal resolutions. The process is non-invasive and is particularly suitable for determining without contact the glucose concentration in parts of the human body, in particular human blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1999
    Assignee: OK Kyung Cho
    Inventors: Ok Kyung Cho, Birgit Holzgreve
  • Patent number: 5795305
    Abstract: A device is suitable both for determining with high accuracy and precision the temperature of the human body (surface temperature, temperature in layers next to the surface, temperature in bodily cavities, temperature gradient towards the inside of the body) and for detecting output units. Their measurement accuracy and precision is higher than that of conventional temperature and heat measurement devices. The device further allows temperature measurement and heat detection with a high spatial and temporal resolution. In addition, because of the high correlation discovered between the glucose concentration in human blood and body temperature and heat measured at certain points of the body, the device is extraordinarily suitable for non-invasively and even contactlessly determining the glucose concentration in parts of the human body, in particular the human blood.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 18, 1998
    Assignee: Ok-Kyung Cho
    Inventors: Ok-Kyung Cho, Birgit Holzgreve