USPTO grants holding company patent for wireless health

By: Brian Dolan | Oct 19, 2009        

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“Our company focus is the protection of our Intellectual Property and the commercialization of a development platform of products for solution providers in growing market segments like: the remote collection of data for patient monitoring, physical rehabilitation and strength conditioning, gaming, military, and aviation,” Applied Technology Holdings CEO Jay Shears stated in a company press release last week.

ATH applied for a patent for a wireless health body area network system in November of 2006, according to the patent filing.

The company said that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office USPTO granted it a patent for a system that gathers and processes biometric and biomechanical body motion data. The patented system includes low cost motion sensor technology attached to a body, and data storage and retrieval systems to collect body motion and biometric data wirelessly, Shears stated.

The company believes its system will improve physical rehabilitation and home patient care and will help to reduce costs and improve efficiencies.

Read the company’s entire press release here

ATH Patent Wireless Health

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  • http://3gdoctor.wordpress.com David Doherty

    Isn’t the US Patent office working so well?

    I wonder what how it is so dismissive of the various body area network systems that I have seen demonstrated by Universities from around the globe or indeed the commercial offerings from the likes of Samsung miCoach, Nokia Sports Tracker, Nike+ or Sony Electronics MH907 Motion Activated headphones?

  • http://u-logic.com Dan Stirling

    The value of a patent is in the form of protecting ones idea. Until an individual files a patent application, they have no idea about the amount of work required in research to determine if someone else had the idea before them. A writer on the other hand only writes about what other have done before him.

  • http://www.fitnessbuilder.com blaine warkentine MD

    tons of prior art on this topic.

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  • http://u-logic.com Dan Stirling

    The name is the same; I am the primary inventor of the technology listed in this patent. I have assigned my right to the company so I no longer have any right to the patent or am I associated with the company other than I am a shareholder of the company(for sale).
    I am not an attorney or writer but I learned a lot about what a patent is and why they become necessary. Companies use patents as big sticks to keep completion from entering their markets. If you have, sufficient number of patents in a specific area of technology you can attempt to control the companies that are trying to enter your market space. This assumes that you have sufficient number of your own patents in a similar market space and the other company is violating portion of your patents.
    In developing a patent, the inventor will develop a spreadsheet of the existing patents and their claims in the specific research area to identify what others have already done (prior artwork) and look for areas where other have not specified specific details on the use of the technology. The patent on face value there is an assumption that there is prior art but you need to review the patent for specific details to determine what is relevant. What will the follow on patents filings focus on to create additional patent protection in this market?