University of Minnesota

Blaine Schneider

Saurav Paul

Ashish Singal

John E Ferguson

Kari Roberts

Nicole Eugenia Pardo Lamos

James Krocak

David Amor

Felicity Pino

Greg Ruth

A care unit can include a base member and a plurality of petal members. Each petal member can extend from a first end, engaged with the base member, to a second end, spaced from the base member. Inward-facing surfaces of at least two petal members and the base member can collectively define a cavity for receiving at least a portion of the patient. The care unit can further include one or both of a therapy component, configured to provide a treatment to the patient, or a sensor component, configured to monitor a condition of the patient. The therapy component can be coupled to, or integrated with, one or both of the base member or a petal member and can include an optical light source, a thermal energy source, an oxygen or air source, a sound wave source, a sound wave-cancelling source, or a pulsating source, for example.

Care unit

Growing community of inventors

Saint Paul, MN, United States of America

Blaine Schneider