United States Government Official Published Documents
Excerpts – Emphasis Added In Bold
I.
During the time period when expectant parents await their baby, much anticipation and excitement exists at the prospect of having a newborn. A large part of this excitement is the realization that the baby is living and growing inside the mother’s womb. Consequently, expectant parents desire to hear evidence of their baby’s existence, most notably the baby’s beating heart and other movements. This greatly enhances the experience for the parents and allows them to feel closer to their child even before the mother gives birth. As a result, expectant parents may purchase devices that allow them to hear their unborn baby’s heartbeat. These prenatal monitors, as they are called, also typically allow expectant parents to hear other sounds generated by the unborn child including kicks and hiccups. Some of these devices also allow expectant parents to record these sounds, play music or educational recordings to the child, and allow the parents to send the sound of the parents’ voices to the child. This is typically done using equipment external from the monitor itself. . . .
In daily lives, people often want or need to listen to some minute sounds from their bodies. For example, a pregnant woman may desire to listen to her unborn baby’s heartbeat and ascertain if her baby is in good condition. ..An apparatus for detecting sounds from a human body and displaying the detected sound information, comprising: a means for collecting arbitrary sounds . . . wherein said arbitrary sounds include the sound of heartbeat of an unborn baby.
United States Patent 6,766,145 2004
II.
Existing ultrasound systems can produce 3D images by acquiring and stitching together a panorama of 2D images. This particular imaging approach is especially common in prenatal applications designed to produce 3D images of a baby in the womb. Capturing detailed images of the baby face, in particular, is often desired to provide a first glimpse of the unborn baby. Unfortunately, acquiring quality images of the face can be highly dependent on the position of the baby within the womb, and ultrasound operators frequently lack the training to maneuver an ultrasound transducer in the manner necessary to overcome variation in the position of the baby. Accordingly, new technology configured to produce quality images of various anatomical features, such as the face of an unborn baby, despite the orientation of such features, is desired.
United States Patent Application Publication No. 20220211348A1 2022
III.
Pre-eclampsia is a condition of pregnancy characterised by high blood pressure, persistent excessive swelling of the hands, feet, ankles and sometimes face, and protein in the urine. If not diagnosed and treated quickly, it can lead to eclampsia, where a seizure occurs, coupled with a sharp rise in blood pressure and serious risk of stroke, as well as extreme distress to an unborn baby.
United States Patent 8,933,211 2013
IV.
An image diagnostic apparatus such as an X-ray diagnostic apparatus, an X-ray CT apparatus, an MRI apparatus, or an ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus is used as an apparatus for taking an image of an internal portion of an object to be examined . . ., for example, the diagnosis of the development of an unborn baby. . . . .An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus with a scanning device having a plurality of ultrasonic transducers arranged in a predetermined direction, for acquiring a three-dimensional ultrasonic . . . .to the predetermined direction, comprising:a two-dimensional ultrasonic image acquiring device configured to acquire a two-dimensional ultrasonic image of a head of an unborn baby . . .
United States Patent 7,985,182 2011
V.
This first volume in the series possesses a fundamental difference from other “baby books” indicative of the uniqueness the system of the present invention brings to a crowded market. The system is structured with the concept that an individual’s history begins not with birth, but with conception, and that the record of a life must include the nine months of pregnancy. This first volume moves from conception through birth, following all the amazing milestones of early childhood and ends just at the very beginning of the school experience, that first big step away from home and into the big world. . . .Hereinbelow are lists of exemplary questions as employed in a preferred embodiment, related to pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the like.
Pregnancy: I knew I was pregnant on:2. How we found out/how I told Dad 3. First trip to OB/GYN, confirming pregnancy,4. Whom we told, and what they said 5. I felt . . .
- Baby’s projected due date
- Mom first heard the baby’s heartbeat on:
- Dad first heard the baby’s heartbeat on: . . .
Daily updates of your unborn baby’s or born baby’s development.
United States Patent Application Publication No. 20080109418A1 2008
VI.
The unborn baby hears their mother’s heartbeat and voice, and movement during the day and night which calms the infant. After birth these comforting movements and sounds are much more difficult to maintain since the infant is no longer a part of the mother.
United States Patent Application Publication No. 20100262050A1 2010
VII.
An audio attenuation device for attenuating audio for transmission to an unborn baby includes a body and an attachment mechanism for attaching the body to an article of clothing of an expectant mother.
United States Patent 11,172,278 2021
VIII.
An unborn baby may also recognize and react to certain sounds such as music, the mother’s and/or father’s voice, and a variety of other natural and/or man-made sounds. . . . in one example implementation, a prenatal sound device transmits sounds and/or music in the mother’s womb to an unborn baby in the mother’s womb . . ..
United States Patent 8,194,891 2012
IX.
The invention includes methods and apparatus for exposing an unborn child to audio stimulation. . . . . Such in utero exposure may provide the basis of a lifelong appreciation for the musical arts as well as: forging early bonds between the child and his or her parents while the child is still in the womb.
United States Patent 6,718,044 2004
X.
The present invention is a developmental device for use during and after pregnancy and comprises an elongated, elasticized belt, having a soft, looped fabric on both sides. The developmental device also comprises at least one speaker disposed within the belt. A playback device selectively attaches to the belt and is in electronic communication with the speaker. The playback device further comprises at least one preprogrammed microchip for transmitting an electrical signal to the speakers. A recordable microchip may also be included in the playback device to record a personalized message for the unborn child.
United States Patent Application Publication No. 20030016840A1 2003
XI.
As previously mentioned, ultrasound examination is considered by many to be the opportunity to “know” the unborn baby. . . . Method 310 describes the steps in which the physician or sonographer 301 performs the ultrasound examination by capturing all relevant data 302 (ultrasound images / videos, room camera data, mother’s and baby’s heartbeat, etc.), without interrupting the 301 doctor / sonographer during the procedure.
Brazil 102016004181A2 [Yes! The Brazilian Government also gets it right!]
XII.
There is therefore a need for a treatment that can be made available to city dweller expectant mothers so that their unborn babies have a significant opportunity to develop immunity to life threatening allergies and other autoimmune diseases in later life.
While it is true that particular identified active agents responsible for conferring protection to an unborn child via exposure of such agents to a pregnant mother have yet to be isolated, one aspect of the present invention is directed to inclusion of such as yet unidentified agents in a system and method so as to achieve the desired result of conferring immunity to an unborn child.
In certain embodiments, certain microbes are obtained in a form such that they are placed in an environment effective to stimulate a mother’s immune system during pregnancy, preventing allergic disease in her unborn children. In particular, in various embodiments, bovine manure, preferably obtained from farmers who use little if any antibiotics with respect to such cattle (as such can be found on certain Amish farms), is provided in a form and at a time such that expectant mothers achieve the desired immunity for their unborn children.
United States Patent 9,750,802 2017
XIII.
An account system security lifecycle as taught herein can help parents manage their child’s account both automatically and actively as the young user grows up. This account lifecycle may extend even to prenatal periods. An expectant mother or father may tag an unborn in a photo months before the child is born, e.g., in a picture of the expectant mother, or a sonogram.
In some embodiments, the method positions 712 the accounts 508, 514 in stage A or a functionally equivalent stage having some other name, and the supplementary account creation trigger is generated by or otherwise corresponds to an action which tags 1020 any of the following in an image: an unborn child, an infant less than eighteen months old. In other embodiments, a different age threshold is used, e.g., twelve months, or twenty-four months.
United States Patent 10,749,875 2020
XIV.
For example, a first check box is associated with a statement “If I am pregnant and cannot speak for myself, I want all lifesaving procedures for myself, even if I am declared legally brain dead, if there is a chance that prolonging my life could allow my child to be born alive. My attorney-in-fact must honor this declaration.” A second check box is associated with a statement “If I am pregnant and cannot speak for myself, I want any medical procedures that could prevent my death even if they could result in the death of my unborn child, provided all possible efforts are made to save the life of my unborn baby.”
United States Patent 8,234,125 2009
XV.
an unborn child hears from the 4th month after conception
United States Patent Application Publication No. 20190358426A1 2019
XVI.
One such population is patients who develop high blood pressure during pregnancy. Health care practitioners are generally hesitant to prescribe pharmaceutical products in these situations as there may be unknown side effects to the mother and unborn child.
United States Patent 9,011,355 2015
XVII.
The user 210 of the portable ultrasound apparatus 100 may be a medical expert including, but is not limited to, a doctor, a nurse, a clinical pathologist, and a medical image expert. Also, the target object 220 may be a part of a human body and may be organs, such as the heart, the brain, the stomach, or the like, or an unborn child.
United States Patent 11,813,115 2023
XVIII.
Additionally or alternatively, biological samples can include components from multiple users (e.g., a blood sample including nucleic acids from a mother and nucleic acids from the mother’s unborn baby . . . and processing the set of data to diagnose Down syndrome;
United States Patent Application Publication No. S20230268025A1 2023
XIX.
The methods of the invention provide for early detection of: (i) cancers of the reproductive organs, (ii) birth defects of the unborn baby, . . . A vast majority of birth defects are associated with anomalies of chromosomes (e.g., Down syndrome).
United States Patent Application Publication No. S20150065379A1 2015
XX.
The present invention relates to methods for determining the gender of an unborn child by assaying the sex hormones, evaluating the overall reducing/oxidizing activity, and/or evaluating radical scavenging capacity of the maternal urine.
United States Patent Application Publication No. 20110230453A1 2011
Thanks, Guy. These inventions are so exciting for new parents! Just thinking way back .. my husband is with a helo det on a destroyer at sea, the Black Sea, or in the upper GI Gap and he can hear a recording of the heart beat and other ssounds like hiccups of the baby, of his first born. Because you don’t have to rely on the “overs” and “outs” of a rare 5 minute MARS call. He can see the sonagrams and hear the recording in texts from a cell phone or tablet.
The reality it took 6 weeks for the letter and book How To Be A Pregnant Father for him to learn he was going to be a dad. Later I found A Child Is Born by Lennart Nillsson and dropped it in the Fleet Postal Service. It was and still is a book with in utero pictures of a baby developing from conception to birth so my husband could follow along the pregnancy stages of baby and me.
I do worry about the invention that can tell the sex of a pre born. There’s a lot of cultures where the wrong news would encourage an abortion.
This reminds me of the “Letters to Santa” scene in “Miracle on 34th St.”
The US Patent Office is nothing to screw around with. If they say there are legitimate products based on the premise of an unborn child being alive in every sense, then who’s to argue otherwise?
The word for “child” is neuter in most Germanic languages, so if the feds used “it” in all such documents, that would be consistent, if perhaps old-fashioned grammatically. However, to use “he or she” for born children, but “it” for the unborn says something about your attitude to life. Will the comatose elderly now be called “it” also?
I like WK Aiken’s logic.
Thank God for all the Horton’s out there.
We will never give up.
Seuss’s Horton Hears A Who!, Horton is the only one who can hear Whoville, a minuscule town on a speck of dust. Horton vows to protect the speck, declaring, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.”
Roe v. Wade never bore the burden of proof that the unborn newly begotten innocent child was not an unborn newly begotten innocent child. Justiced delayed is Justice denied.
Thanks Guy McClung. This is genius.
““A person’s a person, no matter how small.””
Dr. Suess’ wife claimed that he, Dr. Seuss was not pro-life.
so, at some point in her life Mrs Seuss did not exist as an “unborn child”
An unborn child is an unborn child no matter how small.
So do the official published US document use unborn baby? If so well done 👏
The other rubbish term is “fetus”- so it’s good to see them not replacing “it” with “fetus”…I’ve had fetus used even when the baby was near full term. Unborn baby recognises the child’s humanity and that it is infact a baby (growing) and yet to come into the world.
Gosh we complicate the uncomplicated.
Agree about “fetus”. The first OB dr was a young, sour female who kept referring to my unborn baby as a fetus. This was in the early stages of my pregnancy and my husband was at sea.. Thankfully she was transferred to another command. Her replacement was a Royal Navy Midwife. What a change. She had pictures of happy babies in her examing room and always used “baby” or “your baby”. I wrote her superior a note telling him about her wonderful bedside manor..
Dear Everyone, Thanks for reading. WKA, yes you tell the USPTO only the truth in your patent application and in every thing you convey to them about an invention. If not, you end up with no patent or an unenforceable patent. CAM, what I presented is a drop in the bucket of what is said in these applications and patents and, notecwell, communication with the unborn in the womb is progressing so much that the time is vey soon when thus will be TWO WAY communication, and the money to be made will be astronomical which will fuel the publicity for patent filings that make it crystal that somehow these mere blobs of flesh are saying from within a warm womb I AM HERE. MaryDV, thank you for kind compliments. If possible get this to your elected officials and others do when anyone refuses to say Unborn Baby or Unborn Child you can confront them with Official US Govt language. Guy, Texas
Guy: It is always a three way conversation because we have the sender, the receiver and the Creator. The unborn child has an immortal rational human soul forever and forever.
Aquinas said that the soul is the form of the body. There is no unborn child with no soul.