US 12,390,161 B2
Devices for at-home physical examination of the ear and ear canal
Ryan Boucher, San Francisco, CA (US); and Lionel Nelson, Los Altos Hills, CA (US)
Assigned to Zipline Health, Inc, San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed by Zipline Health, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US)
Filed on May 12, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/319,042.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/023,769, filed on May 12, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0353230 A1, Nov. 18, 2021
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/00 (2006.01); A61B 1/227 (2006.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/50 (2023.01)
CPC A61B 5/6817 (2013.01) [A61B 1/00016 (2013.01); A61B 1/227 (2013.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/555 (2023.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A diagnostic device for obtaining diagnostic information about a human subject, the device comprising:
an ear canal engagement section coupled to a body, and including:
an insertion portion configured to be inserted into an ear canal of the human subject, the insertion portion having an upper portion and a lower sled portion that extends farther into the ear canal than the upper portion, and
a stop extending from a top of the insertion portion of the ear canal engagement section; and
a diagnostic extension protruding from the insertion portion and having one or more diagnostic elements for obtaining the diagnostic information, the diagnostic extension comprising an elastic material that facilitates conformance of the diagnostic extension to the ear canal when the diagnostic extension extends into the ear canal, the diagnostic extension extending further into the ear canal than the lower sled portion when the device is inserted into the ear canal and moving radially relative to the lower sled portion when contacting a wall of the ear canal.