Patent ID: 11937943
Assignee: STARKEY LABORATORIES, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  H  G | IPC A  G  H

Claim 11:
12. A system comprising:
a data storage system configured to store:
a first set of features characterizing a segment of inertial measurement unit (IMU) data generated by an IMU of an ear-wearable device; and
a second set of features characterizing a segment of audio data generated by the ear-wearable device or another ear-wearable device concurrently worn by a user of the ear-wearable device; and

one or more processing circuits configured to:
apply a machine learning model (MLM) that takes the first set of features and the second set of features as input;
determine, based on output values produced by the MLM, whether the user of the ear-wearable device has potentially been subject to improper care; and
perform an action in response to determining that the user of the ear-wearable device has potentially been subject to improper care, wherein:
the MLM is an artificial neural network that includes a plurality of output neurons, the plurality of output neurons including a separate output neuron for each type of improper care in a plurality of types of improper care,
to apply the MLM, the one or more processing circuits are configured to apply the artificial network by generating an output value for each of the output neurons of the artificial neural network, and
the one or more processing circuits are configured such that, as part of determining whether the user of the ear-wearable device has potentially been subject to improper care, the one or more processing circuits determine, based on the output values produced by the output neurons of the artificial neural network, whether the user of the ear-wearable device has potentially been subject to a type of improper care in the plurality of the types of improper care.