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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 13, 2013
Podimetrics, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Jonathan David Bloom, Cambridge, MA (US);
David Robert Linders, Somerville, MA (US);
Jeffrey Mark Engler, 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 at least one foot of a patient provides an open platform for receiving at least one foot. The open 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 also forms a thermogram of the sole of the at least one foot from the temperature data values, and determines whether the thermogram presents at least one of a plurality of prescribed patterns. Finally, the method produces output information indicating the risk of an ulcer emerging on the foot as a function of whether the thermogram is determined to present the at least one prescribed pattern.