US 12,324,657 B2
System and method for diagnosis of bovine diseases using auscultation analysis
Randolph K. Geissler, Hudson, WI (US); Garrett W. Taylor, Oakley, KS (US); Wade A. Taylor, Oakley, KS (US); Thomas H. Noffsinger, Benkelman, NE (US); Steve A. Lewis, Bloomington, MN (US); and Scott A. Nelson, Egan, MN (US)
Assigned to INTERVET INC., Rahway, NJ (US)
Filed by INTERVET INC., Madison, NJ (US)
Filed on Jun. 22, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/846,675.
Application 17/846,675 is a division of application No. 13/442,569, filed on Apr. 9, 2012, granted, now 11,389,080.
Application 13/442,569 is a continuation in part of application No. 12/267,448, filed on Nov. 7, 2008, granted, now 8,152,734, issued on Apr. 10, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 60/990,834, filed on Nov. 28, 2007.
Prior Publication US 2022/0313111 A1, Oct. 6, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/08 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 7/00 (2006.01); A61B 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/08 (2013.01) [A61B 7/003 (2013.01); A61B 7/04 (2013.01); A61B 5/7257 (2013.01); A61B 2503/40 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
8. A system for gathering information regarding an animal and using the information for determining a state of health of the animal, said system comprising:
a device for recording auscultated lung sounds obtained from the animal in the form of digital sound data, said device consists of at least one of a stethoscope or audio digital recording unit;
a processor for processing the digital sound data;
computer coded instructions for manipulating the digital sound data through incorporation of at least one algorithm used to calculate a value, said algorithm utilizing selected frequencies of the auscultated sounds, said algorithm generating a first set of data;
said first set of data recorded in a database of said processor and said first set of data reflective of a diagnosis that corresponds to the value obtained from the algorithm;
wherein said first set of data is calculated by said processor by use of said algorithm performed on said digital sound data, and plotting resulting data as calculated in a frequency domain wherein amplitudes of frequencies differentiate between categories of sounds corresponding to various levels of respiratory disease;
a user display incorporated on the stethoscope for displaying information reflective of a state of health of the animal corresponding to the diagnosis and to additional health information;
at least one field device wirelessly communicating with the stethoscope, said field device including at least one of a RFID reader, a diagnostic device, and a temperature probe;
a second set of data obtained from the field device as prompted by a query from the stethoscope, wherein the second set of data corresponds to additional data obtained from the field device for the animal, and the first and second data sets collectively are provided to the user display corresponding to the additional health information; and
wherein said value is a numerical lung score that is compared to threshold values, and these threshold values are expressed as corresponding scaled lung scores that are defined as corresponding to respiratory conditions indicating the health status of the animal's respiratory condition; and
wherein said scaled lung scores are displayed as whole numbers on said user interface.