Top Computer Technology Patent – System for monitoring health, wellness and fitness – US7689437

U.S. Patent 7689437 was awarded to BodyMedia, Inc. on 2010-03-30 and describes a “System for monitoring health, wellness and fitness.” This patent has been cited 244 times by other U.S. patents which places it in the top 500 cited patents since 2010 according to our law firm research, and makes it of the most innovative computer technology patents in the field of electrical engineering. The abstract states:

A method for assisting an individual to monitor, control and modify certain aspects of the individual’s physiological status according to a preset physiological status goal comprising establishing the goal according to certain preselected physiological parameters, affixing a physiological monitoring device in proximity to the body of the individual, generating data indicative of one or more measured parameters of the individual using said device, and using the one or more measured parameters to determine status information indicative of the relative degree of achievement of the individual’s performance with relation to the physiological status goal and providing the status information to the individual. Alternatively, the method may comprise providing, to the individual, information indicative of a suggested change in the individual’s performance to assist the individual in the achievement of the physiological status goal. Link: U.S. Patent 7689437

This patent was originally filed on 2000-06-16 which gives it a processing time of 3574 days, compared to an average processing time of 2461 in the field. BodyMedia, Inc. has 39 total patents. The first named inventor is John Stivoric of Pittsburgh, PA. The primary examiner was Gerald J. O’Connor.

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