US 11,955,247 B2
Mobile automation control of disease spread
Craig M. Trim, Ventura, CA (US); Sarbajit K. Rakshit, Kolkata (IN); Munish Goyal, Yorktown Heights, NY (US); Zachary A. Silverstein, Jacksonville, FL (US); and Shikhar Kwatra, Durham, NC (US)
Assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed by INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION, Armonk, NY (US)
Filed on Sep. 11, 2019, as Appl. No. 16/567,861.
Prior Publication US 2021/0074436 A1, Mar. 11, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 50/80 (2018.01); A47L 11/40 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06V 40/20 (2022.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 50/80 (2018.01) [A47L 11/4011 (2013.01); G06V 40/161 (2022.01); G06V 40/23 (2022.01); G16H 50/30 (2018.01); A47L 2201/04 (2013.01); A47L 2201/06 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
obtaining, by a computing device, information of a person from one or more remote wearable devices of the person via a computer network;
determining, by the computing device, a health status of the person by analyzing the information of the person;
determining, by the computing device, that the person is sick based on the health status;
in response to determining that the person is sick, obtaining digital images of the person from a camera via the computer network;
determining, by the computing device, body movements of the person determined to be sick by analyzing the digital images;
determining, by the computing device, that the person determined to be sick performed a germ-transmitting activity based on the body movements; and
deploying, by the computing device, a remote cleaning robot to clean a potentially contaminated area based on the determining that the person determined to be sick performed the germ-transmitting activity.