US Patent Issued to ORPYX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES on Nov. 3 for "System and method for predicting a fall" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,566, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to ORPYX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"System and method for predicting a fall" was invented by Chun Hing Cheng (Calgary, Canada) and Emily Matijevich (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for predicting a fall includes: obtaining a series of force data using a plurality of force sensors worn on a subject's foot over a time window; obtaining a series of inertial measurement unit (IMU) data from at least a first IMU worn on the subject's foot over the time window; inputting input data into a machine learning model, where the input data includes at least the series o...