Israeli digital health startup OutSense has been granted patents for several of the key innovations of its IoT technology, which analyzes human waste to gain lifesaving medical insights, the company announced Wednesday. The company has filed three patent families involving elements of its medical toilet sensor.
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The first patent is for detecting hidden blood in the toilet bowl. The OutSense device utilizes reflected light from the toilet bowl to determine the optical signature of hidden blood in the stool. A patent for this element of the technology has been granted in the US, Europe, Japan, and China.
A second patent has been secured in Europe and is pending in other countries for the company's technique that can effectively analyze numerous constituents of stool and for spatial distribution of blood traces. On the basis of this analysis, the OutSense's technique can identify blood origin along the gastro-intestinal tract.
A third patent is pending for the company's technique to detect constituents of urine and dehydration from analysis of urine and stool.
"The patent approvals underscore the company's strong intellectual property position and its clear lead over competitors in the field of stool and urine monitoring," said Yfat Scialom, CEO of OutSense. She predicts that "with the explosive growth in digital medicine this kind of monitoring is going to become the norm."
