Patent ID: 9656056
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: A61F,A61N

Claim:
1. A system comprising: a substrate sized for placement on an external surface of a vertebrate subject, the substrate including an adhesive material; one or more cooling elements attached to the substrate and configured to be applied to the external surface of the vertebrate subject to modulate at least one activity of brown adipose tissue of the vertebrate subject; one or more sensors configured to sense a plasma level of one or more of a metabolic analyte, a sugar, a lipoprotein, or a fatty acid in the vertebrate subject; a programmable controller operably coupled to the one or more cooling elements and to the one or more sensors, the programmable controller configured to receive information regarding the plasma level of the one or more of the metabolic analyte, the sugar, the lipoprotein, or the fatty acid in the vertebrate subject from the one or more sensors and configured to provide instructions to the one or more cooling elements in response to the information regarding the plasma level of the one or more of the metabolic analyte, the sugar, the lipoprotein, or the fatty acid in the vertebrate subject; and programming designed to induce weight loss.