First Empire

Research

The still body,
understood.

Two questions drive the program: what happens to blood return when the body stops moving, and how do you read it through a wearable that lives in the real world.

Programs

Active research

  • Active research

    Venous return under prolonged immobility

    The physiological question underneath the platform: what happens to venous return when movement stops, and what can be measured about it at the limb.

  • Active research

    Signal quality in wearable physiological sensing

    Sensor contact quality dominates wearable signal reliability. Estimating physiological state through variable contact is a prerequisite for anything downstream.

Intellectual property

Methods worth protecting.

Sensing the limb, interpreting its signal, and acting on what it says — the first patent on these methods has been allowed by the USPTO, with further applications advancing.

RESEARCH — see disclosures

First patent allowed by the USPTO; further applications advancing.

Publications

Publications

Manuscripts in preparation.

Publications will be listed here on release, with authors, venue, and date.

Collaboration

We work with research institutions, clinicians, and engineering groups on human-systems questions.

Research collaboration inquiries