System and method to detect an event associated with a person relative to a bed

US10019612B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• General Electric Company · US

Inventors

• Charles Burton Theurer · Niskayuna, US
• Douglas Forman · Niskayuna, US
• Brandon Stephen Good · Niskayuna, US
• Shaopeng Liu · Clifton Park, US
• David Smith · Leland, US
• Todd Franklin Scarola · Glen Allen, US
• Robert Lee Wallace · Green Brook, US
• Judith Ann Guzzo · Niskayuna, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 17, 2016
• Grant date: Jul 10, 2018
• Expiry date: Oct 17, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H10/65
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A system and method to detect an event associated with a first object relative to a second object and a support is provided. The system can include an antenna at a support to receive the first object, a tag reader in communication with the antenna and a tag located on the second object. In response to detecting a change in impedance of the antenna associated with the presence of the first object, the tag reader communicates a presence signal. In response to detecting the tag within a threshold proximity of the tag reader, the tag reader generates a tag signal. A remoter server is operable to detect an association of the first and second objects based on a comparison a time associated with each of the tag signal and the presence signal, and in response then creates an output indicative of a detected event based on the association for illustration.