By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning DailyNews Daily News – According to news reporting originatin g from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx journalists,a patent application by the inve ntors ANDERSON, Mindi A. (Oviedo, FL, US); BRUDER, Gerd (Orlando,FL, US); DAHER , Salam (Clifton, NJ, US); DIAZ, Desiree A. (Orlando, FL, US); GONZALEZ, Laura( Orlando, FL, US); HOCHREITER, Jason Eric (Cocoa, FL, US); WELCH, Gregory F. (Lon gwood, FL,US), filed on June 10, 2024, was made available online on October 3, 2024.No assignee for this patent application has been made.Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“There are presently a number of patient simulator systems for training healthcare personnel, includingfully screen-based simulated systems a nd mannequin systems, including robotic Human Patient Simulators(HPS). In the s creen-based systems, a computer-based virtual patient is displayed on a screen. Thevisual appearance could include 2D computer graphics, 3D graphics, stereo, o r head-tracked imagery.However, there is typically no physical interaction with anything resembling a real physical patient. Themannequin-based simulators are typically computer controlled/robotic and can be programmed for a rangeof resp onses that simulate a variety of healthcare symptoms and problems. They are able to simulatephysical symptoms that can be checked such as heart rate, blood pre ssure, and simulated breathing. Theavailable simulators range from relatively s imple and inexpensive mannequins (a.k.a. “manikins”) usefulfor basic “part task ” training, such as that disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 6,227,864. Other available p atientsimulator mannequins utilize complex computer-controlled systems to provi de more realistic environments,as disclosed for example in U.S. Pat. No. 6,273, 728. Unfortunately, the mannequin’s visual appearanceand certain behaviors are often static and unrealistic-there is typically no ability to change such things asthe skin color, the skin temperature, the patient race or gender, nor the pa tient shape/size. Most patient simulators also have no way of sensing the touch (location and force) of the healthcare provider; hence thesimulated patient is unable to react to physical contact, neither physiologically nor emotionally.
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