ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,694, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Connect America.
"Personalized fall detector" was invented by Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate (Waalre, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for training a fall detection classifier using subject-specific movement data. Movement data responsive to a subject's movements during everyday activities are obtained over a predetermined data collection period. For each detected event in the movement data, values for one or more parameters that may (together or individually) indicate a fall are obtained. The obtained values are used to generate a subject-specific probability...