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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 10, 2004
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Mark B. Friedman, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Randall W. Casciola, Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Assignee:
AugmenTech, Inc., Pittsburgh, PA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 2/300 ; G08B 1/314 ; G08B 2/100 ; A61F 1/315 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G08B 2/300 ; G08B 1/314 ; G08B 2/100 ; A61F 1/315 ;
Abstract
A patient fluid discharge monitoring method and apparatus includes at least one article configured to be worn by a patient, the article having absorbent material and a RF tag received adjacent the absorbent material. The RF tag is excited with an excitation signal and the response of the RF tag to the excitation signal is detected. The detected response of the RF tag is compared to a predetermined response. The RF tag has a first detected response when the absorbent material has no fluid therein and a second detected response when the absorbent material has fluid therein.