Researchers Submit Patent Application, “Remote Diagnostic Testing And Treatment”, for Approval (USPTO 20220310249): Patent Application

2022 OCT 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application 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 22, 2022, was made available online on September 29, 2022.

No assignee for this patent application has been made.

News editors 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.”

As a supplement to the background information on this patent application, NewsRx correspondents also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “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.

“In another aspect, an augmented-reality (AR)-enabled first aid kit, comprises a container; and a plurality of first aid items located within the container, wherein each of the plurality of first aid items comprises equipment necessary to perform a first aid, a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container, 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 AR content relating to the plurality of first aid items.”

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The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. An augmented-reality (AR)-enabled first aid kit, comprising: a container; a plurality of first aid items located within the container, wherein each of the plurality of first aid items comprises equipment necessary to perform a first aid, a machine-readable code located on an external surface of the container, 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 AR content relating to the plurality of first aid items.

“2. The AR-enabled first aid kit of claim 1, wherein the AR content comprises information about various first aid steps associated with providing first aid using one or more of the plurality of first aid items.

“3. The AR-enabled first aid kit of claim 1, wherein the AR content comprises information about diagnosis of a condition to be treated with one or more of the plurality of first aid items.

“4. The AR-enabled first aid kit of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code is a QR code.

“5. The AR-enabled first aid kit of claim 1, wherein the machine-readable code is an augmented reality QR code.

“6. The AR-enabled first aid kit of claim 1, wherein each particular first aid item of the plurality of first aid items comprises a respective machine-readable code located on an external surface of a package of the particular first aid item that, when scanned by the portable user computing device, causes the portable user computing device to display information relating to the particular first aid item and/or instructions on how to perform first aid with the particular first aid item on the display of the portable user computing device.

“7. The AR-enabled first aid kit of claim 6, wherein at least one of the respective machine-readable codes comprises a QR code.

“8. A system for facilitating first aid using a first aid kit comprising a container and a plurality of first aid items, the system comprising an electronic storage medium comprising computer-executable instructions and one or more processors in electronic communication with the electronic storage medium and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions in order to: receive, by the system, a request for first aid guidance, wherein the request for first aid guidance is provided by a user on a user interface on a user device; receive, by the system, one or more indications of a condition to be treated, wherein the one or more indications of the condition to be treated are provided by the user using the user device; determining, by the system, whether the condition to be treated is treatable with the first aid kit; based on a determination that the condition to be treated is not treatable with the first aid kit, providing, by the system, a user instruction to seek professional medical attention and a user-selectable option for connecting the user to emergency services, the user instruction and the user-selectable option provided on a display of the user device; and based on a determination that the condition to be treated is treatable with the first aid kit, providing, by the system, first aid instructions for treating the condition using first aid materials of the first aid kit.

“9. The system of claim 8, wherein the one or more indications of a condition to be treated comprise an image captured using a camera of the user device, wherein the image is transmitted to the system over a network.

“10. The system of claim 9, further comprising: providing, by the system, information that is superimposed on the image, the information comprising the first aid guidance; and causing, by the system, the image with the superimposed information to be displayed on a display of the user device.

“11. The system of claim 9, further comprising receiving, by the system, indications of the first aid items in the first aid kit, wherein the indications are provided by the user on the user device, and wherein the determination that whether the condition to be treated is treatable with the first aid kit is based on the indications of the first aid items in the first aid kit.

“12. The system of claim 11, wherein the indications of the first aid items in the first aid kit are determined based on one or more images of the first aid kit captured by a camera of the user device.

“13. The system of claim 12, further comprising determining, by the system, at least some of the first aid items within the first aid kit based on machine-readable codes includes on the at least some of the first aid items.

“14. The system of claim 13, wherein the machine-readable codes comprise QR codes.

“15. The system of claim 11, wherein the indications of the first aid items in the first aid kit are determined based on: providing, by the system, a list of first aid items to be displayed on the display of the user device; and receiving, by the system, a selection of the listed items, wherein the selection is made by the user on the user device.

“16. The system of claim 11, wherein the indications of the first aid items in the first aid kit are determined based on receiving, by the system, a spoken list of first aid items available to the user, wherein the spoken list is generated by the user and recorded on a microphone of the user device.

“17. A method for facilitating first aid using a first aid kit comprising a container and a plurality of first aid items, the method comprising: receiving a request for first aid guidance, wherein the request for first aid guidance is provided by a user on a user interface on a user device; receiving one or more indications of a condition to be treated, wherein the one or more indications of the condition to be treated are provided by the user using the user device; determining whether the condition to be treated is treatable with the first aid kit; based on a determination that the condition to be treated is not treatable with the first aid kit, providing a user instruction to seek professional medical attention and a user selectable option for connecting the user to emergency services, the user instruction and the user-selectable option provided on a display of the user device; and based on a determination that the condition to be treated is treatable with the first aid kit, providing first aid instructions for treating the condition using first aid materials of the first aid kit.

“18. The method of claim 17, further comprising: receiving an image captured using a camera of the user device, wherein the image is transmitted over a network; and analyzing the image to determine the one or more indications of a condition to be treated.

“19. The method of claim 18, further comprising: providing information that is superimposed on the image, the information comprising the first aid guidance; and causing the image with the superimposed information to be displayed on the display of the user device.

“20. The method of claim 17, further comprising determining contents of the first aid kit based on one or more images of the first aid kit captured by a camera of the user device.”

For additional information on this patent application, see: Bryant, Colman Thomas; Carlson, Adam Charles; Ferro, JR., Michael W.; Heising, James Thomas; Magistri, Marco; Miller, Sam; Nienstedt, Zachary Carl; Permenter, John Ray; Rodriguez, Igor Javier. Remote Diagnostic Testing And Treatment. Filed March 22, 2022 and posted September 29, 2022. Patent URL: https://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220220310249%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20220310249&RS=DN/20220310249

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