US 12,453,490 B2
Systems, devices, and methods for remote collection of biometric data and specimen sample with identity verification of collector
Philip Fung, San Francisco, CA (US); Reshma Ebberson, San Francisco, CA (US); and Lakshminarayan Srinivasan, San Francisco, CA (US)
Assigned to THE KIT COMPANY LLC, New York, NY (US)
Appl. No. 17/762,002
Filed by THE KIT COMPANY LLC, New York, NY (US)
PCT Filed Sep. 18, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/051650
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Mar. 18, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/055867, PCT Pub. Date Mar. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/931,593, filed on Nov. 6, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/902,810, filed on Sep. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0369953 A1, Nov. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/117 (2016.01); A61B 50/30 (2016.01); A61B 90/96 (2016.01); G01G 19/50 (2006.01); G06Q 50/26 (2012.01); G16H 10/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G01N 1/00 (2006.01); G01N 1/28 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/117 (2013.01) [A61B 50/30 (2016.02); A61B 90/96 (2016.02); G01G 19/50 (2013.01); G06Q 50/265 (2013.01); G16H 10/40 (2018.01); G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G01N 2001/005 (2013.01); G01N 2001/007 (2013.01); G01N 1/28 (2013.01)] 39 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for obtaining a specimen and/or biological information from a person at a first location to be provided to a second location with the person being verified as an intended person, the method comprising:
establishing a video communication between the person and a human or virtual verification assistant;
confirming identification of the person as being the intended person to the verification assistant through the video communication;
videoing a preassigned unique code corresponding to the intended person on a coded collection device that contains the preassigned unique code and is to be used by the intended person at the first location and/or videoing removal of a collection device from a coded tamper-evident container containing the preassigned unique code; and
obtaining one or more specimens from the intended person and/or obtaining one or more types of biological information of the intended person,
wherein the obtaining the one or more specimens of the intended person comprises at least one of:
i) videoing the intended person while obtaining the one or more specimens;
ii) videoing the one or more specimens after collecting being placed into the coded collection device; or
iii) videoing the one or more specimens being placed in the coded tamper-evident sample container; and
wherein the obtaining the one or more types of biological information of the intended person comprises:
videoing the intended person while obtaining the one or more types of biological information of the intended person.