Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK.
Triton Systems Inc., 200 Turnpike Rd., Chelmsford, MA 01824, USA.
Trends Biotechnol. 2019 Jun;37(6):563-566. doi: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2019.02.001. Epub 2019 Mar 6.
Wearable medical devices (WMDs) will advance point-of-care diagnostics and therapeutics. This article analyses the market and patents for wearable devices. Activity monitors have the largest market share, and the intellectual property landscape is dominated by electronics corporations. However, the majority of these patents have not been realized in commercial products.
可穿戴医疗设备(WMDs)将推动即时诊断和治疗的发展。本文分析了可穿戴设备的市场和专利情况。活动监测器占据最大的市场份额,知识产权格局由电子公司主导。然而,这些专利中的大多数尚未在商业产品中实现。