Patents by Inventor Lindsey Sunden

Lindsey Sunden 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: 20240090806
    Abstract: A wearable computing device includes a housing having a wrist-side face configured to sit against a wrist of a user of the wearable computing device when being worn by the user, an electronic display arranged within the housing, a plurality of biometric sensor electrodes positioned on the wrist-side face so as to maintain skin contact with the user when being worn on the wrist by the user, and at least one driver communicatively coupled to the plurality of biometric sensor electrodes. Each of the plurality of biometric sensor electrodes continuously measures, at least, one or more parameters indicative of electrical impedance of the user at a location of the skin contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Lindsey Sunden, Daniel Steven Howe, Conrad Guanchung Wang, Ryotaro Miyagawa, Seamus David Thomson, David Duncanson Gutschick
  • Publication number: 20230355103
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for improved skin temperature monitoring. Accurate estimates of skin and ambient temperature are generated based on determinations and comparisons of skin and internal device temperature sensor measurements contained on or within example devices. The estimates of skin and ambient temperature measurements facilitate monitoring skin and core temperature changes, detecting physiological events of a wearer of example devices, and determining when skin temperature changes are environmentally or physiologically induced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: November 9, 2023
    Inventors: Lindsey Sunden, Aniket Sanjay Deshpande, Belen Lafon
  • Patent number: 11737675
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for improved skin temperature monitoring. Accurate estimates of skin and ambient temperature are generated based on determinations and comparisons of skin and internal device temperature sensor measurements contained on or within example devices. The estimates of skin and ambient temperature measurements facilitate monitoring skin and core temperature changes, detecting physiological events of a wearer of example devices, and determining when skin temperature changes are environmentally or physiologically induced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: FITBIT LLC
    Inventors: Lindsey Sunden, Aniket Sanjay Deshpande, Belen Lafon
  • Publication number: 20230248320
    Abstract: Temperature data acquired from a wearable device, for example at a user's wrist or within the device itself, can be used as a proxy to evaluate core body temperature changes. Sensor data may be provided to determine a skin temperature of a user and also an internal device temperature. A correlation between these two temperatures may be used to monitor subsequent temperature changes, which may be indicative of changes in the user's core body temperature. Temperature changes to the proxy temperature may be evaluated against a threshold to determine whether the user's core body temperature has also increased, which may be indicative of one or more physiological symptoms or events. Furthermore, additional physiological variables such as respiration rate, nocturnal heart rate, and heart rate variability may be analyzed for early signs of impending illness. A trained machine learning classifier can output the predicted illness status of an individual based on these parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Belen Lafon, Aniket Sanjay Deshpande, Xi Zhang, Aravind Natarajan, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Hao-Wei Su, Lindsey Sunden
  • Publication number: 20230028012
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for improved skin temperature monitoring. Accurate estimates of skin and ambient temperature are generated based on determinations and comparisons of skin and internal device temperature sensor measurements contained on or within example devices. The estimates of skin and ambient temperature measurements facilitate monitoring skin and core temperature changes, detecting physiological events of a wearer of example devices, and determining when skin temperature changes are environmentally or physiologically induced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Lindsey Sunden, Aniket Sanjay Deshpande, Belen Lafon
  • Patent number: 11426079
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for improved skin temperature monitoring. Accurate estimates of skin and ambient temperature are generated based on determinations and comparisons of skin and internal device temperature sensor measurements contained on or within example devices. The estimates of skin and ambient temperature measurements facilitate monitoring skin and core temperature changes, detecting physiological events of a wearer of example devices, and determining when skin temperature changes are environmentally or physiologically induced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Lindsey Sunden, Aniket Deshpande, Belen Lafon