US 12,484,784 B2
Device, system and method for vibration sensitivity assessment
Tamash Frederick Gordon Hickish, Bournemouth (GB); Venketesh Nath Dubey, Bournemouth (GB); Neil Vaughan, Bournemouth (GB); and Jonathan David Cole, Bournemouth (GB)
Assigned to BU Innovations Limited, Bournemouth (GB)
Filed by BU Innovations Limited, Bournemouth (GB)
Filed on Oct. 8, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/497,727.
Application 17/497,727 is a division of application No. 15/575,097, abandoned, previously published as PCT/GB2016/051405, filed on May 16, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 1508513 (GB), filed on May 18, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0095922 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/0051 (2013.01) [A61B 5/4041 (2013.01); A61B 5/4827 (2013.01); A61B 5/6898 (2013.01); A61B 2560/045 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for clinical vibration sensitivity assessment comprising:
a device comprising:
an attachment portion configured to detachably clip the device onto a mobile telephone, wherein an internal shape of the attachment portion is configured closely to match an external shape of the mobile telephone; and
a probe, attached to the attachment portion, and configured to be applied to a test location on a test subject's skin and to convey vibrations generated by the mobile telephone to the test location; and
the mobile telephone,
wherein the mobile telephone is configured to carry out a vibration sensitivity assessment procedure comprising:
a generating step to generate a predetermined intensity of the vibrations; and
a receiving step to receive user input indicating the test subject's ability to feel the predetermined intensity of the vibrations at the test location,
wherein the mobile telephone is configured to carry out the vibration sensitivity assessment procedure in iterative steps comprising:
performing the generating and receiving steps;
increasing the predetermined intensity of the vibrations; and
repeating the generating step and the receiving step;
wherein the mobile telephone is configured to set the predetermined intensity of the vibrations in dependence on a selected test location on the test subject's skin.