Smart toilet for human health monitoring
US11604177B1 · kind B1 · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jul 9, 2019 |
| Grant date | Mar 14, 2023 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jul 25, 2041 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG06T2207/30004
- WIPO fieldMeasurement
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for monitoring or analyzing excreta of a subject using a toilet. In one embodiment, the device includes a housing mounted adjacent a toilet bowl, a urinalysis module for deploying urinalysis strips into the toilet bowl to collect a urine sample from a subject's urine stream delivered into the toilet bowl and a urinalysis sensor to acquire data from the urinalysis strip related to the urine sample, and a stool analysis module including a camera oriented into the toilet bowl to provide images of contents of the toilet bowl. In addition, the device may include a uroflowmetry module and/or a biometric identification module. One or more sensors are provided for identifying when a subject uses the toilet, and a processor activates one or more of the modules when the sensors indicate a subject is using the toilet.
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