ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,016, issued on Jan. 13.
"System and method for medical condition detection and triage using mobile devices" was invented by Joseph Alan Epstein (Pleasanton, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for detecting possible disease and condition indications on a patient, using combinations of two dimensional, infrared, and three-dimensional (such as dot) cameras. In one embodiment, the cameras are located in a smartphone that the patient uses to aim at parts of the body, wherein features or motion potentially corresponding to indications of disease or conditions are extracted and analyzed. A further embodiment conducts ...