Miniature External Temperature Sensing Device for Estimating Subsurface Tissue Temperatures

Patent №

US 11,635,334

Granted

2023-04-25

Filed 2020

Owner

APPLE INC.

Lab

AI components

1

planning

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

16917704

Embodiments described herein are directed to a temperature measurement device that includes a sensor body configured to be placed on a skin of a user. The temperature measurement device can include a first section defining a first lower surface and having a first thickness, a second section defining a second lower surface and having a second thickness, and a channel separating the first lower surface from the second lower surface. The temperature measurement device can also include a first set of temperature sensors positioned across the first thickness, a second set of temperature sensors positioned across the second thickness, and a processor configured to estimate a tissue temperature of the user based on comparing temperature signals from the first set of temperature sensors with temperature signals from the second set of temperature sensors.

PlanningG01K 3/08G01K 1/026G01K 1/14G01K 7/00G01K 7/427G01K 13/20A61B 5/01

AI classification

Planning0.69
AI hardware0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Natural language0.00
Knowledge representation0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Speech0.00

Ownership

APPLE INC.

assignment · 538560019

Assignors

RAHMANI, HELIA, MINERVINI, ANTHONY D., HUANG, WANFENG, CLEMENTS, JAMES C., YU, JIANDONG, ZENG, ZIJING, OGATA, CHARLEY T.

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