Kathy Marie Chapman

US Patent:

20110320324, Dec 29, 2011

Filed:

Dec 2, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/958506

Inventors:

John Fralick - Salt Lake City UT, US
David L. Breiter - Orem UT, US
Jack Peterson - Provo UT, US
Mindy Gilbert - Cedar Hills UT, US
Marvin Distel - Albuquerque NM, US
Ryan Newman - Elk Ridge UT, US
Joel Erickson - Spanish Fork UT, US
Kathy L. Chapman - Salt Lake City UT, US

Assignee:

Nu Skin International, Inc. - Provo UT

International Classification:

G06Q 40/00
A61B 5/1455

US Classification:

705 30, 600310

Abstract:

A process, apparatus, and method for computerized detection, tracking, and feedback control of nutritional supplements in an animal, including humans relies on Raman scattering effects on skin or other tissues to determine the content of carotenoids or other nutrients as evidenced in that skin. Serum levels of nutrients may vary dramatically with time, but skin tissues may average such nutrition over time. Skin and other tissues may be scanned with light to produce accurate measurements of carotenoids or other nutrients accumulated in the skin based on the Raman scattering affect of those nutrients in the skin. A score can be derived from a properly calibrated bio-photonic scanner to reflect an averaged effective uptake of the detected nutrient (e.g. such as the carotenoid example). This feedback control is thus much more immediate than any anecdotal, long-term, report of general well being, which would vary so much between individuals as to be nearly impossible to ascertain on an individual level, and difficult, invasive, and expensive to determine individually in a conventional clinical procedure.

US Patent:

20110319730, Dec 29, 2011

Filed:

Dec 2, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/958528

Inventors:

John Fralick - Salt Lake City UT, US
David L. Breiter - Orem UT, US
Jack Peterson - Provo UT, US
Mindy Gilbert - Cedar Hills UT, US
Marvin Distel - Albuquerque NM, US
Ryan Newman - Elk Ridge UT, US
Joel Erickson - Spanish Fork UT, US
Kathy L. Chapman - Salt Lake City UT, US

Assignee:

Nu Skin International, Inc. - Provo UT

International Classification:

A61B 5/1455

US Classification:

600310

Abstract:

A process, apparatus, and method for online control and database collection and management of a computerized detection, tracking, and feedback control system. The system tests for nutrients by Raman scattering effects on skin or other tissues to determine the content of carotenoids or other nutrients as evidenced in that skin. Serum levels of nutrients may vary dramatically with time, but skin tissues may average such nutrition over time. Skin and other tissues may be scanned with light to produce accurate measurements of carotenoids or other nutrients accumulated in the skin based on the Raman scattering affect of those nutrients in the skin. A score can be derived from a properly calibrated bio-photonic scanner to reflect an averaged effective uptake of the detected nutrient (e.g. such as the carotenoid example).