METHOD AND DEVICE FOR CONTROLLING FOOD AND/OR DRINK INTAKE BY AN INDIVIDUAL Russian patent published in 2019 - IPC A61B5/06 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to medical equipment. Device for controlling food and / or drinking by a subject comprises a control unit which comprises a first acquisition module configured to obtain measurement results of one or more physiological characteristics of the subject; a second acquisition module configured to obtain measurement results of eddy currents generated in the body of the subject under the action of an applied external magnetic field; an installation module configured to set a corresponding cutoff frequency for one or more filtering links based on a corresponding frequency for each of said one or more physiological characteristics; filtering module configured to filter eddy current measurement results using one or more filtering links to exclude signal components caused by one or more physiological characteristics; and a processing module configured to process the filtered measurement results to determine whether food and/or drinking is present in the subject's stomach.

EFFECT: method and device for controlling food and/or drink intake by a subject are disclosed.

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