US 12,495,969 B2
Activity, wear, and stability tracking devices, systems, and methods transmitting over cellular network
Thomas Andrew Sullivan DiBello, Houston, TX (US); Aaron Guerrero Flores, Austin, TX (US); Shane Richard Wurdeman, Sugar Land, TX (US); Bryce W. Billing, Austin, TX (US); and Antonio Manuel Dias, Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Assigned to Hanger, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
Appl. No. 17/611,330
Filed by Hanger, Inc., Austin, TX (US)
PCT Filed May 14, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/032938
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 15, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/232273, PCT Pub. Date Nov. 19, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/848,941, filed on May 16, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0192498 A1, Jun. 23, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 5/0022 (2013.01) [A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); A61B 5/112 (2013.01); A61B 5/4851 (2013.01); A61B 5/6811 (2013.01); A61B 5/6812 (2013.01); A61B 5/746 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); A61B 2560/04 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A tracking device, comprising:
a housing;
a fastening member configured to mount the housing to at least one of a prosthetic device of a patient, an orthotic device of the patient, or a body of the patient;
communications circuitry in the housing;
a position sensor coupled with the housing and configured to detect position data regarding the patient; and
processing circuitry coupled with the housing and configured to:
receive the position data from the position sensor;
determine one or more metrics regarding activity of the patient based on the position data, wherein the one or more metrics include at least one of a percentage of time that the tracking device is worn, a percentage of time that the patient is in an active state, a number of steps taken by the patient, a number of stairs climbed by the patient, a number of steps taken by the patient that are running steps, an instable motion, an instable posture, a number of bouts of the patient, an average speed of the patient, an average number of bouts of the patient, a direction, an orientation, a position of the patient, an alignment of the position sensor, a gait of the patient, a battery level of a power supply of the tracking device, or a period of transmission by the communications circuitry; and
cause the communications circuitry to transmit at least one of the position data or the one or more metrics to a client device.