Patent Issued for Remote diagnostic testing and treatment (USPTO 11615888): Emed Labs LLC

2023 APR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- According to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx journalists, a patent by the inventors Bryant, Colman Thomas (Fort Lauderdale, FL, US), Carlson, Adam Charles (Miami, FL, US), Ferro, Jr., Michael W. (Palm Beach, FL, US), Heising, James Thomas (Richland, WA, US), Magistri, Marco (Miami, FL, US), Miller, Sam (Hollywood, FL, US), Nienstedt, Zachary Carl (Wilton Manors, FL, US), Permenter, John Ray (Miami, FL, US), Rodriguez, Igor Javier (Miami, FL, US), filed on March 21, 2022, was published online on March 28, 2023.

The assignee for this patent, patent number 11615888, is Emed Labs LLC (Miami, Florida, United States).

Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “The use of telehealth to deliver healthcare services has grown consistently over the last several decades and has experienced very rapid growth in the last several years, particularly in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. Telehealth can include the distribution of health-related services and information via electronic information and telecommunication technologies. Telehealth can allow for long-distance patient and health provider contact, care, advice, reminders, education, intervention, monitoring, and remote admissions. Often, telehealth can involve the use of a user or patient’s user device, such as a smartphone, tablet, laptop, personal computer, or other type of user device. For example, the user or patient can administer a health-related test remotely through the user device.

“Remote or at-home health care testing and diagnostics can solve or alleviate some problems associated with in-person testing. For example, health insurance may not be required, travel to a testing site is avoided, and tests can be completed at a patient’s convenience. However, at-home testing introduces various additional logistical and technical issues, such as guaranteeing timely test delivery to a testing user, providing test delivery from a patient to an appropriate lab, guaranteeing timely result reporting from the appropriate lab to a patient, ensuring test result verification and integrity, providing test result reporting to appropriate authorities and medical providers, providing treatments to a patient, and connecting patients with medical providers who may be needed to provide guidance and/or oversight of the testing procedures and results remotely.”

In addition to obtaining background information on this patent, NewsRx editors also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “For purposes of this summary, certain aspects, advantages, and novel features of the invention are described herein. It is to be understood that not all such advantages necessarily may be achieved in accordance with any particular embodiment of the invention. Thus, for example, those skilled in the art will recognize that the invention may be embodied or carried out in a manner that achieves one advantage or group of advantages as taught herein without necessarily achieving other advantages as may be taught or suggested herein.

“In one aspect, medical diagnostic kit includes a container and a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits located within the container, wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test, wherein the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprise at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test, and wherein the container comprises a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container.

“The medical diagnostic kit may include one or more of the following features in any combination: wherein at least one of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises one of: a Covid-19 test kit, a UTI test kit, a drug test kit, a syphilis test kit, a streptococcal pharyngitis test kit, an influenza test kit, and a sexually transmitted disease (STD) test kit; wherein the machine-readable code configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device to enable providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device, and causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables initiation of the augmented reality presentation that includes display of augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits; wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about each of the particular medical diagnostic tests; wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about various steps in a testing process for each of the particular medical diagnostic tests; wherein the machine-readable code is an QR code; wherein the machine-readable code is an augmented reality QR code; wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises a respective machine-readable code located on an external surface of a package of the medical diagnostic test kit that, when scanned by the portable user computing device, causes the portable user computing device to display information relating to the particular medical diagnostic test and/or instructions on how to perform the particular medical diagnostic test on the display of the portable user computing device; wherein at least one of the respective machine-readable codes comprises a QR code; wherein the machine-readable code configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device to enable providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device, and causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables establishment of a live video feed with a live proctor, wherein the proctor is remotely located from the user device; and/or other features as described herein.

“In another aspect, a method for medical diagnostic testing, includes: providing a user with a medical diagnostic test kit container, wherein a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits are located within the container, wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test, wherein the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprise at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test, and wherein the container comprises a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container.

“The method can include one or more of the following features in any combination: wherein at least one of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises one of: a Covid-19 test kit, a UTI test kit, a drug test kit, a syphilis test kit, a streptococcal pharyngitis test kit, an influenza test kit, and a sexually transmitted disease (STD) test kit; wherein the machine-readable code configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device, the method further comprising providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device, and causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables initiation of the augmented reality presentation that includes display of augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits; wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about each of the particular medical diagnostic tests; wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about various steps in a testing process for each of the particular medical diagnostic tests; wherein the machine-readable code is an QR code; wherein the machine-readable code is an augmented reality QR code; wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises a respective machine-readable code located on an external surface of a package of the medical diagnostic test kit that, when scanned by the portable user computing device, causes the portable user computing device to display information relating to the particular medical diagnostic test and/or instructions on how to perform the particular medical diagnostic test on the display of the portable user computing device; wherein at least one of the respective machine-readable codes comprises a QR code; wherein the machine-readable code configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device, the method further comprising providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device, and causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables establishment of a live video feed with a live proctor; and/or other features as described herein.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A medical diagnostic kit, comprising: a container; and a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits located within the container, wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test, wherein the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprise at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test, wherein the container comprises a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container, and wherein the machine-readable code is configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device to enable: providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device; causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables initiation of the augmented reality presentation; and based upon selection of the user-selectable graphic, causing display of the augmented reality presentation, wherein the augmented reality presentation comprises, for each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits, a virtual representation of the medical diagnostic test kit and a corresponding user-selectable graphic that, when selected, causes display of additional information related to the medical diagnostic test kit.

“2. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein at least one of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises one of: a Covid-19 test kit, a UTI test kit, a drug test kit, a syphilis test kit, a streptococcal pharyngitis test kit, an influenza test kit, and a sexually transmitted disease (STD) test kit.

“3. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about each of the particular medical diagnostic tests.

“4. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about various steps in a testing process for each of the particular medical diagnostic tests.

“5. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code is a QR code.

“6. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code is an augmented reality QR code.

“7. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises a respective machine-readable code located on an external surface of a package of the medical diagnostic test kit that, when scanned by the portable user computing device, causes the portable user computing device to display information relating to the particular medical diagnostic test and/or instructions on how to perform the particular medical diagnostic test on the display of the portable user computing device.

“8. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 7, wherein at least one of the respective machine-readable codes comprises a QR code.

“9. The medical diagnostic kit of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code is configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device to enable: providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device; and causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables establishment of a live video feed with a live proctor, wherein the proctor is remotely located from the user device.

“10. A method for medical diagnostic testing, the method comprising: providing a user with a medical diagnostic test kit container, wherein a plurality of medical diagnostic test kits are located within the container, wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises equipment necessary to perform a particular self-administered medical diagnostic test, wherein the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprise at least a first medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a first medical diagnostic test and a second medical diagnostic kit adapted to facilitate user completion of a second medical diagnostic test different from the first medical diagnostic test, wherein the container comprises a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container, and wherein the machine-readable code is configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device, providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device; causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables initiation of the augmented reality presentation that includes display of augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits; and based on selection of the user-selectable graphic, causing display of the augmented reality presentation, wherein the augmented reality presentation comprises, for each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits, a virtual representation of the medical diagnostic test kit and corresponding user-selectable graphic that, when selected, causes display of additional information related to the medical diagnostic test kit.

“11. The method of claim 10, wherein at least one of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises one of: a Covid-19 test kit, a UTI test kit, a drug test kit, a syphilis test kit, a streptococcal pharyngitis test kit, an influenza test kit, and a sexually transmitted disease (STD) test kit.

“12. The method of claim 11, wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about each of the particular medical diagnostic tests.

“13. The method of claim 11, wherein the augmented reality content relating to the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises information about various steps in a testing process for each of the particular medical diagnostic tests.

“14. The method of claim 11, wherein the machine-readable code is a QR code.

“15. The method of claim 11, wherein the machine-readable code is an augmented reality QR code.

“16. The method of claim 11, wherein each of the plurality of medical diagnostic test kits comprises a respective machine-readable code located on an external surface of a package of the medical diagnostic test kit that, when scanned by the portable user computing device, causes the portable user computing device to display information relating to the particular medical diagnostic test and/or instructions on how to perform the particular medical diagnostic test on the display of the portable user computing device.

“17. The method of claim 16, wherein at least one of the respective machine-readable codes comprises a QR code.

“18. The method of claim 10, wherein the machine-readable code configured to be imaged by a camera of a portable user computing device, the method further comprising: providing a fiducial point from which a coordinate frame for an augmented reality presentation can be established using the camera and a display of the portable user computing device; and causing the portable user computing device to display a user-selectable graphic on the display of the portable user computing device that, when selected by a user, causes a software application stored on the portable user computing device to access a provider webpage that enables establishment of a live video feed with a live proctor.”

For more information, see this patent: Bryant, Colman Thomas. Remote diagnostic testing and treatment. U.S. Patent Number 11615888, filed March 21, 2022, and published online on March 28, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11615888)&db=USPAT&type=ids

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