US 12,102,439 B2
Tri-axial seismocardiography methods
David S Mac Quarrie, Langley (CA); John Patrick Neary, Regina (CA); and Robert David Sauchyn, Regina (CA)
Assigned to LLA TECHNOLOGIES INC.
Filed by LLA Technologies Inc., Kelowna (CA)
Filed on Nov. 16, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/528,009.
Application 17/528,009 is a continuation of application No. 17/081,287, filed on Oct. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0175296 A1, Jun. 9, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); A61B 5/259 (2021.01); A61B 5/341 (2021.01); A61B 5/349 (2021.01); G06V 40/10 (2022.01)
CPC A61B 5/341 (2021.01) [A61B 5/0022 (2013.01); A61B 5/02028 (2013.01); A61B 5/1102 (2013.01); A61B 5/259 (2021.01); A61B 5/349 (2021.01); A61B 5/7246 (2013.01); G06V 40/15 (2022.01); A61B 5/6831 (2013.01); A61B 2560/045 (2013.01); A61B 2562/0219 (2013.01)] 8 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A computer-implemented method, comprising: providing a wireless tri-axial seismocardiography (SCG) device configured to measure and time-stamp movements of a user's chest caused by the user's heart beats; positioning the SCG device on the user's chest in a predetermined orientation and initiating a test; using the positioned SCG device, detecting, sampling, digitizing and time-stamping movement vectors of the user's chest over a predetermined period of time in each of x, y and z directions; storing the time-stamped digitized movement vectors in a memory of the SCG device and sending the time-stamped digitized movement vectors to at least a remote server over a computer network; receiving, a software application on a mobile-device of the user, a plurality of fiduciary markers from the remote server, the plurality of fiduciary markers being detected from or derived using the time-stamped digitized movement vectors in each of x, y and z directions, the remote server having determined an identity of the user from amongst a plurality of users by at least partially matching the plurality of fiduciary markers with previously-acquired cardiac data of the user; determining, from the time-stamped digitized movement vectors, a force of ventricular contraction as a rate and manner with which the user's heart twists and untwists across the x, y and z axes over time; from the determined force of ventricular contraction, determining a ratio of a magnitude of L-waves to a magnitude of I waves and expressing the determined ratio as a percentage, and using the determined percentage and at least some of the plurality of fiduciary markers, generating a report on the mobile device of the user of the identified user, the report including an indication of the health of the user's heart.