Patents Assigned to Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.
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Patent number: 9829480Abstract: A portable handheld wireless breath alcohol monitoring device (RBAM) utilizes facial recognition from an enrollment image or gallery of images accumulated over time, and automatic retesting if an initial test is positive for alcohol or of an initial facial match is negative. A location fix is captured with each breath test taken by an offender. After each breath test, the breath alcohol content (BrAC), date and time of the breath test, facial image data, and location fix are uploaded through a built-in cellular phone module in the RBAM to a monitoring station. The monitoring station evaluates each breath test and determines if immediate notification to a supervising agency is needed. If so, an email, text message, or page is sent to the supervising agency. RBAM enables the monitoring of lower-risk offenders or offenders who have earned the privilege of a less intrusive alcohol testing and monitoring program.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2015Date of Patent: November 28, 2017Assignee: ALCOHOL MONITORING SYSTEMS, INC.Inventors: Mark Henry Wojcik, Gary Alan Shoffner, Gordon William Murray, Gregory Jerome Morton, Matthew Paul Zenthoefer
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Patent number: 9489487Abstract: A bio-information monitoring system passively monitors a patient with a remote portable bio-information unit that takes various bio-information measurements at selected time intervals as well as at random times without patient intervention. The measurements are converted to digital signals which are transmitted from the bio-information unit to a modem when the bio-information unit is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring network. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring network to a treatment provider. The treatment provider may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2005Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Michael Leonard Iiams, Glenn Charles Tubb, Richard A. Stoll, Gary Alan Shoffner, Brian Kirby Phillips
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Patent number: 8862152Abstract: A computer-implemented method and system for monitoring an offender includes establishing a communications link between a mobile phone and an offender monitoring unit. The mobile phone may receive geocoded signals that provide indoor location information. A communications link may then be established between the mobile phone and a computer server. The geocoded signals may be relayed from the mobile phone to the computer server. The computer server may generate a correlation matrix that tracks status information associated with the offender monitoring unit and provides one or more recommendations on how to manage the offender associated with the offender monitoring unit. The offender monitoring unit may detect if it has been compromised and it may also detect a battery status signal, as well as chemical sensing signals. The offender monitoring unit may relay this status information to the mobile phone, which may then relay this information back to the computer server.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: October 14, 2014Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gregory A. Buchholz, Don F. Pruitt, Floyd J. Brown, Jordan B. Colletta
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Patent number: 8317697Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 8165824Abstract: An improvement in monitoring alcohol levels through transdermal testing is provided by detecting if environmental gasses, referred to as interferents, have been introduced into a transdermal vapor sample. An insensible skin perspiration sample may not be completely controlled and can contain interferents from an environmental source rather than the subject. Before testing a skin perspiration sample, the alcohol sensor is sampled and averaged to establish a baseline value. A sample is drawn and presented to the alcohol sensor. The output of the alcohol sensor is monitored to determine the amount of alcohol in the sample. A maximum alcohol sensor value for the transdermal alcohol monitor is set by determining the baseline value when no alcohol is present in the sample. Subsequent baseline values during a reading above the maximum alcohol sensor value indicate that an environmental interferent is present in the alcohol sensor.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2009Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Michael Leonard Iiams, Ben Franklin Houston, Royce Alan McDonald, Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Mark Henry Wojcik, Gordon William Murray, Charles Thomas Champion
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Publication number: 20110015873Abstract: An improvement in monitoring alcohol levels through transdermal testing is provided by detecting if environmental gasses, referred to as interferents, have been introduced into a transdermal vapor sample. An insensible skin perspiration sample may not be completely controlled and can contain interferents from an environmental source rather than the subject. Before testing a skin perspiration sample, the alcohol sensor is sampled and averaged to establish a baseline value. A sample is drawn and presented to the alcohol sensor. The output of the alcohol sensor is monitored to determine the amount of alcohol in the sample. A maximum alcohol sensor value for the transdermal alcohol monitor is set by determining the baseline value when no alcohol is present in the sample. Subsequent baseline values during a reading above the maximum alcohol sensor value indicate that an environmental interferent is present in the alcohol sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2009Publication date: January 20, 2011Applicant: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Michael Leonard Iiams, Ben Franklin Houston, Royce Alan McDonald, Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Mark Henry Wojcik, Gordon William Murray, Charles Thomas Champion
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Patent number: 7641611Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: January 5, 2010Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7611461Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2006Date of Patent: November 3, 2009Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, William James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7462149Abstract: A tamper proof transdermal alcohol content monitoring device is made up of analog and digital sides which are securely attached to the human subject to be monitored. The analog side has a sampling circuit which draws a measured insensible skin perspiration sample from the skin of the subject and measured with an electrochemical fuel cell. A distance measurement of the device from the skin of the subject and temperature of the sample are monitored along with the transdermal alcohol content, and converted to digital signals which are transmitted to a modem when the monitor is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring station. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring station to a supervising agency. The supervising agency may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: December 9, 2008Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Brian Kirby Phillips, Michael Leonard Iiams, Williams James Roushey, III, Nolan James Farmer, Jr.
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Patent number: 7311665Abstract: A bio-information monitoring system passively monitors a patient with a remote portable bio-information unit that takes various bio-information measurements at selected time intervals as well as at random times without patient intervention. The measurements are converted to digital signals which are transmitted from the bio-information unit to a modem when the bio-information unit is in proximity to the modem. The signals are stored in the modem and uploaded to a central monitoring network. Automatic alerts may be sent from the central monitoring network to a treatment provider. The treatment provider may also access the information through secured dedicated websites via the Internet.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2003Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Alcohol Monitoring Systems, Inc.Inventors: Jeffrey Scott Hawthorne, Michael Leonard Iiams, Glenn Charles Tubb, Richard A. Stoll, Gary Alan Shoffner