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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2016
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Henry Lin, Quincy, MA (US);
Sitharthan Kamalakaran, Pelham, NY (US);
Assignee:
Koninklijke Philips N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G16B 20/00 (2019.01); G16B 10/00 (2019.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G16B 20/00 (2019.02); G16B 10/00 (2019.02); G16H 50/30 (2018.01);
Abstract
The present invention provides for a method to identify a hospital acquired infection. The method includes computing the number of changes over time between an infection sample and at least a subset of the plurality of infection samples and determining if the number of changes over time is within an interval of an expected number of changes. If so, marking the infection sample as a hospital acquired infection.