IP Library Granted Patent US 11,154,241
Granted Patent B2
US 11,154,241 · App. 16/846,110 · Granted Oct 26, 2021

Method and system for monitoring intoxication

Inventors: Keith Harry Nothacker (San Francisco, CA); Pauline Anne Basaran (San Francisco, CA); Stacey Ilene Rettus (San Francisco, CA); Michael Jurgen Strasser (San Francisco, CA); Imraan Aziz (San Francisco, CA); John Paul Walton (San Francisco, CA); Zachary Michael Saul (San Francisco, CA); Christopher Thomas Faykus (San Francisco, CA)
Assignee: KHN Solutions, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 11,154,241
App. No.
16/846,110
Granted
Oct 26, 2021
Kind
B2
Abstract

A method and system for monitoring a user's intoxication including receiving a set of signals, derived from a set of samples collected from the user at a set of time points; providing a sobriety task to the user proximal to a time point of the set of time points; generating a performance dataset characterizing performance of the sobriety task by the user; receiving a supplementary dataset characterizing a demographic profile of the user and/or a physiological state of the user; determining a set of values of an intoxication metric, derived from the set of signals; generating a predicted temporal profile of the intoxication metric for the user based upon the set of values, the set of time points, and the supplementary dataset; generating an analysis of the user's sobriety based upon the performance dataset and the predicted temporal profile; and providing a notification to the user based upon the analysis.

Claims (36)

1. A system for monitoring intoxication of a user, the system comprising:

a housing positioned adjacent to the user during operation of the system, wherein the housing receives a sample from the user;

an electronics system coupled to a wrist-borne device, wherein the electronics system comprises a sensor and is at least partially disposed within the housing, and wherein the electronics system determines a signal based on the sample;

a data link coupled to the electronics system and to a processing system, wherein a first portion of the processing system is arranged at the housing and a second portion of the processing system is arranged at a mobile computing system arranged at the wrist-borne device, and wherein the processing system:

receives the signal from the electronics system through the data link;

receives an input from the user at the mobile computing system;

determines a value of a predicted intoxication metric, derived from the signal; and

modulates the intoxication metric based on the input.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the wrist-borne device comprises a vibration motor electrically connected to the electronics system, wherein a second notification comprising a haptic output is provided at the vibration motor.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sample is a breath sample.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensor is a fuel cell sensor.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processing system further generates a notification, wherein the notification is provided at a display of the mobile computing system.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the notification comprises at least one of a predicted count of total drinks consumed by the user and a predicted peak intoxication metric of the user.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the input is received at a display of the wrist-borne device.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the input comprises behavioral information associated with the user.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the predicted intoxication metric is a temporal parameter.

10. A system for monitoring intoxication of a user, the system comprising:

a housing positioned adjacent to the user during operation of the system, wherein the housing receives a sample from the user;

an electronics system coupled to a wrist-borne device, wherein the electronics system comprises a sensor and is at least partially disposed within the housing, and wherein the electronics system determines a signal based on the sample;

a data link coupled to the electronics system and to a processing system, wherein the processing system:

receives an input from the user at the wrist-borne device, wherein the input is configured to initiate provision of the sample at the housing;

in response to the input, receives the signal from the electronics system through the data link; and

determines a value of an intoxication metric, derived from the signal.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the processing system further generates a notification based on the intoxication metric.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the notification comprises at least one of a predicted count of total drinks consumed by the user and a predicted peak intoxication metric of the user.

13. The system of claim 11 , further comprising a client application executing on a mobile user device, wherein the notification is provided at the client application.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein the mobile user device is coupled to the wrist-borne device.

15. The system of claim 14 , wherein the client application is further executing on a second mobile user device, wherein the second mobile user device is in communication with the electronics system and arranged offboard the wrist-borne device.

16. The system of claim 10 , wherein the wrist-borne device comprises a fastener coupled to a digital watch face.

17. The system of claim 16 , wherein at least a portion of the processing system is arranged within a housing of the digital watch face.

18. The system of claim 10 , wherein at least a portion of the processing system is arranged at the housing.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein a remaining portion of the processing system is arranged at computing system arranged onboard the wrist-borne device.

20. The system of claim 10 , wherein the processing system is arranged onboard the wrist-borne device.

21. The system of claim 10 , wherein the sample is a breath sample.

22. The system of claim 10 , wherein the wrist-borne device comprises a vibration motor electrically connected to the electronics system, wherein a second notification comprising a haptic output is provided at the vibration motor.

23. The system of claim 10 , wherein the sensor is a fuel cell sensor.

Assignments (2)
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 17, 2023
From: KHN SOLUTIONS, INC.
To: KHN SOLUTIONS, LLC
Reel/Frame 064634/0443 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Apr 10, 2020
From: NOTHACKER, KEITH HARRY; BASARAN, PAULINE ANNE; RETTUS, STACEY ILENE; STRASSER, MICHAEL JURGEN; AZIZ, IMRAAN; WALTON, JOHN PAUL; SAUL, ZACHARY MICHAEL; FAYKUS, CHRISTOPHER THOMAS
To: KHN SOLUTIONS, INC.
Reel/Frame 052369/0930 →
Continuity (10)
Continuation 16010093 · Jun 15, 2018
Continuation 15459820 · Mar 15, 2017
Continuation 15294317 · Oct 14, 2016
Continuation 14925675 · Oct 28, 2015
Continuation 14631125 · Feb 25, 2015
Continuation In Part 14470376 · Aug 27, 2014
Continuation 14169029 · Jan 30, 2014
Provisional Application 61759390 · Jan 31, 2013
Provisional Application 61812704 · Apr 16, 2013
Related Publication 20200237301A1 · Jul 30, 2020