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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 04, 2015
Filed:
Mar. 14, 2013
Podimetrics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Jeffrey Mark Engler, Cambridge, MA (US);
David Robert Linders, Somerville, MA (US);
Jonathan David Bloom, Cambridge, MA (US);
Brian Jude Petersen, Somerville, MA (US);
Adam Geboff, San Jose, CA (US);
David Charles Kale, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Podimetrics, Inc., Somerville, MA (US);
Abstract
A method of monitoring a patient's foot provides an open platform for receiving at least one foot. The platform has at least one temperature sensor for generating a plurality of temperature data values after receipt of the at least one foot. The method then forms a thermogram of the sole of the at least one foot from the temperature data, and determines whether the thermogram presents at least one of a plurality of prescribed patterns. Next, the method produces output information indicating the emergence of a pre-ulcer or progression of a known pre-ulcer in the at least one foot as a function of whether the thermogram is determined to present the at least one pattern.