Patent ID: 11883135
Assignee: CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  B | IPC A  B

Claim 14:
15. A method for diagnosing and/or monitoring health status of a subject comprising providing the device of claim 1 to the subject by physically or non-physically contacting a surface of a body of said device with a surface of an outer ear of the subject, the surface of the body of said device which is in physical or non-physical contact with the surface of the outer ear of the subject comprising a plurality of sensing ends of multiple sensing and stimulating electrodes and interconnecting with a plurality of interconnections disposed at an opposite side to said surface of the body of the device, said surface of the body of the device forming a mechanically stable whilst flexible electrode-skin interface with the surface of the outer ear of the subject where the majority of auricular points is located in order to receive real-time bio-signals from the surface of the outer ear of the subject and respond to the received bio-signals after being processed and subsequently analyzed by an automatic 3D contour mapping user interface.