US 11,867,568 B2
Body-mountable temperature monitor accounting for ambient conditions
Roxana Heitz, Mountain View, CA (US); William Biederman, San Francisco, CA (US); and Sean Frick, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to Verily Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Verily Life Sciences LLC, South San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on Jan. 2, 2020, as Appl. No. 16/733,074.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/788,465, filed on Jan. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2020/0217727 A1, Jul. 9, 2020
Int. Cl. G01K 13/20 (2021.01); G01K 1/14 (2021.01); G01K 1/20 (2006.01); G01K 7/22 (2006.01)
CPC G01K 13/20 (2021.01) [G01K 1/14 (2013.01); G01K 1/20 (2013.01); G01K 7/22 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of monitoring an internal body temperature of a patient, the method comprising:
detecting a skin temperature of the patient using a single temperature sensor in a body-mountable temperature monitor attached to skin of the patient;
calculating, using the single temperature sensor, a heat flux associated with the body-mountable temperature monitor based on selectively activating a heater in the body-mountable temperature monitor; and
determining the internal body temperature of the patient using the skin temperature and the heat flux,
wherein the body-mountable temperature monitor comprises an adhesive layer;
wherein the adhesive layer comprises an opening; and
wherein the single temperature sensor is positioned within the opening of the adhesive layer.