Patent ID: 11915824
Assignee: SIGVARIS AG
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  G | IPC G

Claim 10:
11. A method for measuring therapeutic compliance with wearing a textile item by a patient, the method comprising:
a) providing a flexible electronic card comprising two opposed faces and designed to be integrated into the item in a manner such that one of the faces is orientated towards a limb of the patient when the item is worn, the electronic card having two capacitive electrodes each disposed on one of the faces of the electronic card and orientated in opposing directions, a monitoring system capable of generating compliance data, and a communications system designed to transfer data remotely from the item;
b) capturing measuring signals with the two capacitive electrodes orientated in opposing directions, which signals are a function of their environment;
c) generating digital data from the measuring signals from the capacitive electrodes;
d) transferring data from the device remotely from the item;
e) processing the digital data to generate the compliance data, either with the device before the data is transferred, or remotely from the device after the data is transferred.