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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 07, 2025
Filed:
Apr. 06, 2022
Niche Biomedical, Inc., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Alexander Barnes Baldwin, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Yi-Kai Lo, Culver City, CA (US);
NICHE BIOMEDICAL, INC., Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods that can employ a bleeding sensor that uses an optical mechanism to detect blood in the patients GI tract are described. The bleeding sensor includes a substrate holding a centrally-located light detector with a broad sensitivity spectrum and at least two light emitters positioned radially around the centrally-located light detector, each light emitter configured to emit light of different primary wavelengths. The bleeding sensor has a gap between each of the at least two light emitters and the centrally-located light detector that accepts the contents of a patients gastrointestinal tract. An optical cap covers the centrally-located light detector and the at least two light emitters to direct the light emitted from the at least two light emitters through the gap and onto the centrally-located light detector.