Patents Assigned to IntelligentM
  • Methods and systems for encouraging and enforcing hand hygiene
    Patent number: 9135805
    Abstract: A method of and system for monitoring an instance and a duration of hand-washing activity using a lightweight, wearable device including a radio frequency identification tag reader; an external communication device; an alarm device that is adapted to generate at least one of a visual, an audible, and a haptic signal; data storing device(s) having multi-dimensional movement, acceleration, and/or moment data representative of hand-washing activity; an accelerometer to measure multi-dimensional movement and acceleration of the device; a gyroscope to measure multi-dimensional movement and moment of the device; and a processing device that uses measured multi-dimensional movement, acceleration, and/or moment data to evaluate hand-washing activity by determining when hand-washing activity has begun and ended and by comparing the duration of hand-washing activity to a pre-determined minimum hand-washing requirement, to determine whether or not said hand-washing activity complies with the minimum hand-washing require
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2015
    Assignee: IntelligentM
    Inventors: Seth Freedman, Andrew Fine, Dave Mullinix
  • METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR ENCOURAGING AND ENFORCING HAND HYGIENE
    Publication number: 20140266692
    Abstract: A method of and system for monitoring an instance and a duration of hand-washing activity using a lightweight, wearable device including a radio frequency identification tag reader; an external communication device; an alarm device that is adapted to generate at least one of a visual, an audible, and a haptic signal; data storing device(s) having multi-dimensional movement, acceleration, and/or moment data representative of hand-washing activity; an accelerometer to measure multi-dimensional movement and acceleration of the device; a gyroscope to measure multi-dimensional movement and moment of the device; and a processing device that uses measured multi-dimensional movement, acceleration, and/or moment data to evaluate hand-washing activity by determining when hand-washing activity has begun and ended and by comparing the duration of hand-washing activity to a pre-determined minimum hand-washing requirement, to determine whether or not said hand-washing activity complies with the minimum hand-washing require
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2013
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: IntelligentM
    Inventors: Seth Freedman, Andrew Fine, Dave Mullinix