Temperature-measurement probe

摘要

An apparatus, system and method for temperature measurement of a target site, such a human body site. The invention includes an intelligent temperature probe configured to physically contact a target site and to communicate with a host device, which can be implemented as a hand-held device or as a personal computer. The host device can compute, store and display an accurate predicted temperature, or an actual temperature at thermal equilibrium, of the target site for each of a plurality of different intelligent temperature probes that each have unique and varied operating characteristics. A set of unique operating characteristics for each temperature probe is represented by information communicated between each respective temperature probe and the host device.

主权项

1. A temperature-measurement device, comprising:
a first separately designed and manufactured device; a first path residing within said first separately designed and manufactured device including a communication node, said first path generating circuit measurement data and including a memory configured to store a procedural model; and a second path in communication with said communication node to receive said procedural model and said circuit measurement data from said first path to provide an estimated target temperature, and wherein said procedural model having a script for correlating said circuit-measurement data to provide the estimated target temperature, and wherein the second path having processing circuitry configured to process a customized script from a second separately designed and manufactured device interchangeable with the first separately designed and manufactured device, the customized script having programming constructs different from the script of the first separately designed and manufactured device.