US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Dec. 16 for "Measuring gait to detect impairment" (California, Georgia, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,495,989, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Measuring gait to detect impairment" was invented by Zejin Ding (Atlanta), Matthew T. Gerdes (Oakland, Calif.), Guang Chao Wang (San Diego), Kenny C. Gross (Escondido, Calif.) and Andrew Vakhutinsky (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with detecting impairment using a vibration fingerprint that characterizes gait dynamics are described. An example method includes receiving measurements of a gait of a being from a sensor. The measurements of the gait are converted into a time series...