Patent Issued for XR health platform, system and method (USPTO 11615600): Wellovate LLC

2023 APR 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent by the inventors Jackson, Jonathan (Charlotte, NC, US), Morgan, Joseph W. (Blowing Rock, NC, US), Pagano, II, Nunzio Peter (Asheville, NC, US), Patel, Rahul A. (Huntersville, NC, US), Rufolo, Allen Ronald (Charlotte, NC, US), filed on December 15, 2021, was published online on March 28, 2023, according to news reporting originating from Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx correspondents.

Patent number 11615600 is assigned to Wellovate LLC (Boone, North Carolina, United States).

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “TECHNICAL FIELD AND BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE

“The present disclosure relates broadly and generally to an extended reality health platform, system and method-referred to broadly and collectively herein as “XR Health Platform” or “XR Platform” or “Platform” or the like.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “SUMMARY OF EXEMPLARY EMBODIMENTS

“Various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are described below. Use of the term “exemplary” means illustrative or by way of example only, and any reference herein to “the invention” is not intended to restrict or limit the invention to exact features or steps of any of the exemplary embodiments disclosed in the present specification. References to “exemplary embodiment,” “one embodiment,” “an embodiment,” “various embodiments,” and the like, may indicate that the embodiment(s) of the invention so described may include a particular feature, structure, or characteristic, but not every embodiment necessarily includes the particular feature, structure, or characteristic. Further, repeated use of the phrase “in one embodiment,” or “in an exemplary embodiment,” do not necessarily refer to the same embodiment, although they may. Any reference herein to “patient”, “user”, “clinician”, and any other individual is intended as gender neutral notwithstanding use of the words “he”, “him”, “himself” or the like, or any singular possessive use of the word “his” or the like.

“It is also noted that terms like “preferably”, “commonly”, and “typically” are not utilized herein to limit the scope of the invention or to imply that certain features are critical, essential, or even important to the structure or function of the invention. Rather, these terms are merely intended to highlight alternative or additional features that may or may not be utilized in a particular embodiment of the present invention.

“According to one exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure comprises an extended reality (XR) health platform, system and method.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A computer-based extended reality health system adapted for electronically generating personalized patient assessments developed via sessions within an XR environment comprising immersive scenes, said XR health system comprising: an XR device adapted for being employed by a patient to visually render the immersive scene during a session within said XR environment, and wherein said XR device comprises a head-mounted display; an input device adapted for electronically interacting with objects, content and features visually displayed in the immersive scene of said XR environment; a plurality of software modules operable in a computing environment comprising a computing device and processor communicating with said head-mounted display, and utilizing data and control signals of said input device to generate system data applicable in a personalized patient assessment, the patient assessment being selected from a group consisting of assessment of motivators, mental health assessment, safety assessment, acute care assessment, sentiment assessment, patient experience assessment, assessment of clinical outcomes, assessment of categorical outcomes, assessment of qualitative outcomes, disease screening assessment, co-morbidity assessment, family history assessment, patient allergy assessment, substance abuse history, medication assessment, nausea assessment, stage of behavior change assessment, barriers assessment, ML/AI model assessment of platform data, ML/AI model assessment of platform features, assessment of ML/AI model(s), assessments of social determinants of health, language assessment, circadian disruption assessment, values assessment, needs assessment, goals assessment, general health assessment, symptom assessment, history of present illness assessment, past medical history assessment, past surgical history assessment, social history assessment, health problem assessment, health issue assessment, physical exam assessment, educational assessment, health literacy assessment, health efficacy assessment, disease management assessment, rehabilitation assessment, physical therapy assessment, occupational therapy assessment, speech assessment, palliative care assessment, advance directives assessment, aging assessment, fall risk assessment, mobility assessment, self-care assessment, activities of daily living assessment, instrumental activities of daily living assessment, stress test assessment, smoking assessment, substance use assessment, personality assessment, pain assessment, sleep assessment, emotional intelligence assessment, sensory assessment, vision assessment, hearing assessment, Alzheimer’s assessment, Parkinson’s assessment, stroke assessment, head injury assessment, agitation assessment, amnesia assessment, neuro-behavioral assessment, neurocognitive assessment, neurological assessment, inactivity assessment, physical activity assessment, physical fitness assessment, patient flexibility assessment, balance assessment, strength assessment, agility assessment, coordination assessment, position assessment, rotation assessment, location assessment, perspective assessment, way-finding assessment, stress assessment, movement assessment, and motor assessment; and at least one of an aroma diffuser communicating with said head-mounted display and adapted for emitting selected scents to a patient at pre-configured times during the interactive sessions, a camera communicating with said head-mounted display and adapted for capturing a perspective of a patient, and a microphone communicating with said head-mounted display and adapted for capturing audio data relating to a patient.

“2. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, wherein said neurocognitive assessment comprises an assessment of cognitive domains selected from a group consisting of long-term memory/long delay recall/crystallized memory, short-term memory/short delay recall, working memory, visual-spatial reasoning, episodic memory, sorting/inductive reasoning, attention, sustained attention, divided attention, selective attention, inhibition, reaction/response time, manual dexterity, knowledge, conceptual flexibility, praxis/applying learned concepts and/or knowledge, language comprehension, verbal reasoning, reasoning/computation, processing speed and accuracy, planning, decision making/problem solving, judgement/evaluation, executive function.

“3. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, wherein said neurological assessment comprises at least one of a group consisting of consciousness assessment comprising arousal assessment, assess whether a patient is alert, assess whether a patient is oriented to person, assess whether a patient is oriented to place, assess whether a patient is oriented to time, and cranial nerve assessment.

“4. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, and comprising an HMD cushion operatively connected to said head-mounted display and adapted to reside between said head-mounted display and a head of the patient.

“5. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, wherein said mental health assessment comprises at least one of a group consisting of assessment relating to negative thoughts, assessment of a patient’s mood, assessment of a patient’s emotions, feelings assessment, assessment of depression, assessment of anxiety, assessments relating to cognitive distortions, assessment of seasonal affective disorder, worry outcomes are assessed, cognitive bias assessment, phobia assessment, post-traumatic stress assessment, and attention bias assessment.

“6. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, wherein said plurality of software modules are selected from a group consisting of clinical platform module, XR platform module, configuration module, integration module, light module, audio module, tactile module, anatomy module, movement module, neurological module, mental health module, pain module, procedural and digital anesthetic module, and billing module.

“7. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, and comprising a positional tracking device communicating with said head-mounted display and adapted for capturing positional tracking data for positional tracking of the patient, and wherein said positional tracking device comprises at least one of a camera and a microphone.

“8. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 7, wherein said positional tracking data comprise data selected from a group consisting of gaze tracking, pupil tracking, eye tracking, facial tracking, hand tracking, audio tracking, and body language tracking.

“9. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, and comprising a releasable device fastener attached to said head-mounted display and adapted for releasably securing said head-mounted display to the patient.

“10. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, and comprising a flexible measuring tape including space markings and adapted for being carried by the patient.

“11. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, wherein said XR device further comprises a controller.

“12. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 11, and comprising a controller handle sensor device operatively connected to said controller and adapted for being gripped by the patient to capture biomarker data.

“13. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 12, wherein the biomarker data comprises data selected from a group consisting of grip strength, heart rate, points of electro-cardiographic data, temperature, and galvanic skin response.

“14. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, and comprising at least one adaptive learning model programmatically implemented to generate system data applicable in the personalized patient assessment.

“15. The computer-based extended reality health system according to claim 1, and comprising software for rendering a virtual human avatar adapted for influencing the patient in immersive scenes during sessions within said XR environment.”

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URL and more information on this patent, see: Jackson, Jonathan. XR health platform, system and method. U.S. Patent Number 11615600, filed December 15, 2021, and published online on March 28, 2023. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(11615600)&db=USPAT&type=ids

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