US 12,245,873 B2
Disposable sensor array wearable device sleeve system and method
Peter Vincent Boesen, Munich (DE); and Jake Berry Turner, Munich (DE)
Assigned to BRAGI GMBH, Munich (DE)
Filed by BRAGI GmbH, Munich (DE)
Filed on Oct. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/049,544.
Application 18/049,544 is a continuation of application No. 15/692,681, filed on Aug. 31, 2017, granted, now 11,490,858.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/382,043, filed on Aug. 31, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2023/0067067 A1, Mar. 2, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/0205 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/6817 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0002 (2013.01); A61B 5/1114 (2013.01); A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/02055 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0214 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0425 (2013.01); A61B 2560/045 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system comprising:
a wireless earpiece, the wireless earpiece comprising a wireless earpiece body sized and shaped for fitting into an ear of a user, the wireless earpiece body having a distal end and a proximal end;
a removable sleeve formed of a flexible material and comprising a sleeve cavity within the removable sleeve, the sleeve cavity is configured to encase the wireless earpiece body such that the removeable sleeve when fit over the wireless earpiece body and when the wireless earpiece is within the ear of the user, the sleeve cavity is encasing the wireless earpiece body and the removable sleeve is in contact with the ear of the user;
a first interface integrated into the removeable sleeve and configured to communicate with a second interface integrated into the wireless earpiece;
a plurality of sensors integrated into the removable sleeve such that the plurality of sensors are in contact with the ear of the user, wherein each of the plurality of sensors are electrically connected to the first interface and the plurality of sensors communicates sensor readings to the wireless earpiece through the first interface integrated into the removeable sleeve; and
the removable sleeve within a plurality of removable sleeves, each removable sleeve formed of a plurality of sensors integrated into the removable sleeves, wherein at least one removeable sleeve has at least one sensor in its plurality of sensors not in the plurality of sensors on at least one other removable sleeve.