US 12,419,524 B2
Systems and methods for touchless temperature screening system
Benjamin R. Ellison, San Francisco, CA (US); Eric Chad Neipling, Rogers, AR (US); Addison K. Bostian, Centerton, AR (US); Manideep Pabba, Bentonville, AR (US); Ryan J. Giovacchini, Rogers, AR (US); Alisha D. Fleshman, Centerton, AR (US); and Kipp S. Coco, Bentonville, AR (US)
Assigned to Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed by Walmart Apollo, LLC, Bentonville, AR (US)
Filed on Aug. 14, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/233,539.
Application 18/233,539 is a continuation of application No. 17/505,405, filed on Oct. 19, 2021, granted, now 11,766,181.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/209,595, filed on Jun. 11, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/093,737, filed on Oct. 19, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0380696 A1, Nov. 30, 2023
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61B 5/01 (2006.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/117 (2016.01); G01J 5/00 (2022.01); G01J 5/02 (2022.01); G01J 5/04 (2006.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01)
CPC A61B 5/015 (2013.01) [A61B 5/117 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); A61B 5/7495 (2013.01); G01J 5/0025 (2013.01); G01J 5/026 (2013.01); G01J 5/04 (2013.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61B 2562/18 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A temperature screening system that screens a body temperature of a human, the temperature screening system comprising:
a housing comprising a display configured to present one or more messages to the human and disposed in the housing to face a first direction;
two response sensors configured to receive one or more user inputs from the human responsive to the one or more messages without direct physical contact from a hand or a finger of the human and without indirect physical contact from an extension of, a shield for, or a covering of the hand or the finger of the human, a first of the two response sensors disposed in the housing to face a second direction different than the first direction, and a second of the two response sensors disposed in the housing to face a third direction different than first direction and the second direction;
a temperature sensor configured to contactlessly detect the body temperature of the human; and
a control circuit coupled to the display, the two response sensors, and the temperature sensor, the control circuit configured to:
cause the display to present the one or more messages to the human;
receive, via the two response sensors, the one or more user inputs from the human indicative of responses to at least one of the one or more messages, wherein each response to the at least one of the one or more messages is based on which one of the two response sensors is activated by the human;
receive, via the temperature sensor, temperature data corresponding to the body temperature of the human;
determine, based on the received one or more user inputs and the received temperature data, whether the human meets a health criteria; and
in response to the human meeting the health criteria, transmit a control signal indicative of the human meeting the health criteria.