Patents Assigned to BTIO Educational Products, Inc.
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Patent number: 6537074Abstract: An infant simulator capable of emulating the care requirements of an infant and recording the quality of care and responsiveness of a person caring for the infant simulator and/or signaling the person caring for the infant simulator when care is required. The infant simulator is capable of (i) sensing the environmental conditions of position, temperature and compression to which the infant simulator is subjected, and (ii) periodically demanding that the care-provider change the diaper, rock the infant, feeding the infant, or burp the infant simulator. The infant simulator is also programmed with the ancillary features of providing positive feedback when the proper interaction is provided in a timely fashion, an escalating demand signal when the proper interaction is not provided in a timely fashion, an identification system requiring the assigned care-provider to be present in order to satisfy a demand event, an unsatisfiable fussy period, and multiple behavior modes (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2001Date of Patent: March 25, 2003Assignee: BTIO Educational Products, Inc.Inventors: Richard N. Jurmain, Mary M. Jurmain, Sheila R. Oium
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Patent number: 6454571Abstract: An infant simulator capable of emulating the care requirements of an infant and recording the quality of care and responsiveness of a person caring for the infant simulator and/or signaling the person caring for the infant simulator when care is required. The infant simulator is capable of (i) sensing the environmental conditions of position, temperature and compression to which the infant simulator is subjected, and (ii) periodically demanding that the care-provider change the diaper, rock the infant, feeding the infant, or burp the infant simulator. The infant simulator is also programmed with the ancillary features of providing positive feedback when the proper interaction is provided in a timely fashion, an escalating demand signal when the proper interaction is not provided in a timely fashion, an identification system requiring the assigned care-provider to be present in order to satisfy a demand event, an unsatisfiable fussy period, and multiple behavior modes (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2001Date of Patent: September 24, 2002Assignee: BTIO Educational Products, Inc.Inventors: Richard N. Jurmain, Mary M. Jurmain, S. R. Oium
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Patent number: 6428321Abstract: An infant simulator capable of emulating the care requirements of an infant and recording the quality of care and responsiveness of a person caring for the infant simulator and/or signaling the person caring for the infant simulator when care is required. The infant simulator is capable of (i) sensing the environmental conditions of position, temperature and compression to which the infant simulator is subjected, and (ii) periodically demanding that the care-provider change the diaper, rock the infant, feeding the infant, or burp the infant simulator. The infant simulator is also programmed with the ancillary features of providing positive feedback when the proper interaction is provided in a timely fashion, an escalating demand signal when the proper interaction is not provided in a timely fashion, an identification system requiring the assigned care-provider to be present in order to satisfy a demand event, an unsatisfiable fussy period, and multiple behavior modes (i.e.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 1997Date of Patent: August 6, 2002Assignee: BTIO Educational Products, Inc.Inventors: Richard N. Jurmain, Mary M. Jurmain, Larry P. Blackledge, Sheila R. Oium, Adrian Pelkus, Mary E. Rybarczyk
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Patent number: 6238215Abstract: An infant simulator comprising a doll equipped with a realistically floppy neck and a means for sensing and recording or reporting instances in which the head has not been properly supported during handling and allowed to flop into an unacceptable bent position.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2000Date of Patent: May 29, 2001Assignee: BTIO Educational Products, Inc.Inventors: Mary M. Jurmain, John C. Fusi