US 12,257,022 B2
System for transmission of sensor data using dual communication protocol
Ammar Al-Ali, San Juan Capistrano, CA (US); Stephen Scruggs, Newport Beach, CA (US); Richard Priddell, Irvine, CA (US); Chad A. DeJong, Los Angeles, CA (US); Eric Karl Kinast, Santa Ana, CA (US); Jung Soo Hwang, Irvine, CA (US); and Steven Hang, Santa Ana, CA (US)
Assigned to MASIMO CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed by MASIMO CORPORATION, Irvine, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 4, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/665,389.
Application 17/665,389 is a continuation of application No. 16/599,017, filed on Oct. 10, 2019, granted, now 11,272,839.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/744,988, filed on Oct. 12, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2022/0225878 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/002 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0024 (2013.01); A61B 2560/045 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0456 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for collecting and wirelessly transmitting physiological data of a patient, the system comprising:
a disposable noninvasive sensor assembly comprising:
a housing comprising an outer surface, a recess along a portion of the outer surface, at least one opening arranged within the recess and configured to allow air to enter an interior of the housing, a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a first lip at the first end, and a second lip at the first end, wherein the first and second lips are spaced from one another;
a battery stored within the interior of the housing;
a cable;
a sensor element attached to the housing via the cable, the sensor element configured to attach to a finger of the patient;
a dock coupled to the housing such that the housing covers a first portion of the dock, wherein the first lip of the housing and the dock define a first slot along the first end of the housing and the second lip of the housing and the dock define a second slot along the first end of the housing, the first and second slots spaced from one another; and
a strap coupled to the dock and configured to attach the disposable noninvasive sensor assembly to the patient; and
a reusable transmitter assembly comprising:
a body comprising a top surface, a first end, a second end opposite the first end of the body;
a first leg arranged on the first end of the body, wherein a portion of the first leg is recessed from the top surface of the reusable transmitter assembly;
a second leg arranged on the first end of the body, wherein a portion of the second leg is recessed from the top surface of the reusable transmitter assembly, and wherein the first leg and the second leg are spaced from one another;
a processor within an interior of the body;
a memory within the interior of the body; and
a wireless communication device within the interior of the body;
wherein the reusable transmitter assembly is configured to be secured to the disposable noninvasive sensor assembly at least partially via engagement of said recessed portions of the first and second legs with the first and second lips, said engagement between said recessed portions of the first and second legs with the first and second lips configured to operably position said recessed portions of the first and second legs within the first and second slots of the disposable noninvasive sensor assembly, and
wherein the reusable transmitter assembly is configured to receive the physiological data of the patient from the disposable noninvasive sensor assembly when secured thereto.