# US 10,117,993 B2 · Activity sensing techniques for an infusion pump system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 10,117,993 B2 - Document ID: US10117993B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/285,872 - Filed: 2016-10-05 - Published: 2017-01-26 - Granted: 2018-11-06 - Earliest claimed: 2007-09-07 - Assignees: Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc. - Applicants: Bigfoot Biomedical, Inc. - Inventors: Mark C. Estes; Deb Ruppert - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10117993B2 ## CPC - A61M 5/1723: {using feedback of body parameters, e.g. blood sugar or pressure} - A61M 5/1413: {Modular systems comprising interconnecting elements} - A61M 5/14244: {adapted to be carried by the patient, e.g. portable on the body} - A61M 5/172: electrical or electronic - G16H 20/17: delivered via infusion or injection - G16H 40/67: for remote operation - A61M 5/14566: {with a replaceable reservoir for receiving a piston rod of the pump} - A61M 2005/14208: {with a programmable infusion control system, characterised by the infusion program} - A61M 2005/14268: {with a reusable and a disposable component} - A61M 2005/31518: {designed to reduce the overall size of an injection device, e.g. using flexible or pivotally connected chain-like rod members} - A61M 2202/04: Liquids - A61M 2205/18: with alarm - A61M 2205/3569: sublocal, e.g. between console and disposable - A61M 2205/502: User interfaces, e.g. screens or keyboards - A61M 2230/005: Parameter used as control input for the apparatus - A61M 2230/201: Glucose concentration - A61M 2230/63: Motion, e.g. physical activity - A61M: DEVICES FOR INTRODUCING MEDIA INTO, OR ONTO, THE BODY (introducing media into or onto the bodies of animals A61D7/00; means for inserting tampons A61F13/26; devices for administering food or medicines orally A61J; containers for collecting, storing or administering blood or medical fluids A61J1/05); DEVICES FOR TRANSDUCING BODY MEDIA OR FOR TAKING MEDIA FROM THE BODY (surgery A61B; chemical aspects of surgical articles A61L); DEVICES FOR PRODUCING OR ENDING SLEEP OR STUPOR {(Electrotherapy, e.g. producing anaesthesia by the use of alternating or intermittent currents A61N1/36021)} - G16H: HEALTHCARE INFORMATICS, i.e. INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR THE HANDLING OR PROCESSING OF MEDICAL OR HEALTHCARE DATA ## Abstract Some embodiments of a wearable infusion pump system can include a pump device having a drive system to dispense a medicine to a user, an activity sensor that detects a possible change in an activity level of the user, and a controller to activate the drive system to dispense the medicine to the user. The controller device can query the user to indicate whether a detected activity level of the user represents an actual change in the activity level of the user. The controller device can alter the medicine dispensing schedule based on the user indicated changes in activity level. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A wearable infusion pump system, comprising: a pump device including a drive system to dispense a medicine to a user; a body-worn glucose sensor device being physically separated from the pump device; an activity sensor to detect signals indicative of an activity level of the user, the activity sensor being part of the body-worn glucose sensor device; and a controller to activate the drive system to dispense the medicine to the user based on a medicine dispensing schedule, the controller to query the user to indicate whether a detected activity level of the user represents an actual activity level of the user and to alter the medicine dispensing schedule based on the user-indicated activity level, wherein the body-worn glucose sensor device is configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one of the controller and the pump device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The wearable infusion pump system of claim 1, wherein the body-worn glucose sensor device comprises a sensor housing, a sensor shaft, a glucose sensor, the activity sensor, a power source, and a communication circuit, the sensor housing being adapted to be adhered to a user's skin, the sensor shaft being adapted to penetrate under the user's skin when the housing is adhered to the user's skin, the communication circuit being adapted to wirelessly transmit glucose data and activity data from the activity sensor to at least one of the controller and the pump device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The wearable infusion pump system of claim 1, wherein the system is adapted to alert the user to cease the physical activity if glucose levels are outside of a safe range. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The wearable infusion pump system of claim 1, wherein the pump device is an insulin pump device and the system is adapted to prompt the user to manually adjust an insulin dosage. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The wearable infusion pump system of claim 1, wherein the controller device is adapted to automatically decrease insulin delivery from the insulin pump device in response to a detected increased activity level. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The wearable infusion pump system of claim 5, wherein the controller device is adapted to alert the user to the automatic adjustment. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The wearable infusion pump system of claim 1, wherein the activity sensor comprises a blood oxygen sensor adapted to detect decreased blood oxygen levels, a blood pressure sensor adapted to detect increased blood pressure, a heart rate sensor adapted to detect increased heart rate, a body temperature sensor adapted to detect increased core temperature, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased respiration rate, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased perspiration, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased muscle activity, or an accelerometer. ### Claim 8 A glucose and activity sensing system comprising: a controller device; and a body-worn glucose sensor device comprising a sensor housing, a sensor shaft, a glucose sensor, one or more physiological sensors, a power source, and a communication circuit, the sensor housing being adapted to be adhered to a user's skin, the sensor shaft being adapted to penetrate under the user's skin when the housing is adhered to the user's skin, the one or more physiological sensors being adapted to detect a user's activity characteristics, the communication circuit of the body-worn glucose sensor device being adapted to wirelessly transmit glucose data and data from the one or more physiological sensors to the controller that is physically separated from the body-worn glucose sensor device. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 8, wherein the system is adapted to alert the user to cease the physical activity if glucose levels are outside of a safe range. ### Claim 10 (depends on 8) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 8, wherein the system is adapted to prompt the user the manually adjust the user's insulin dosage. ### Claim 11 (depends on 8) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 8, wherein the controller device is adapted to alert the user to a detected physical activity. ### Claim 12 (depends on 11) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 11, wherein the controller device is adapted to query the user to confirm that the detected physical activity has occurred. ### Claim 13 (depends on 8) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 8, further comprising an insulin pump device. ### Claim 14 (depends on 13) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 13, wherein the controller device is adapted to automatically decrease insulin delivery from the insulin pump device in response to a detected increase in physical activity. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 14, wherein the controller device is adapted alert the user to the automatic adjustment. ### Claim 16 (depends on 8) The glucose and activity sensing system of claim 8, wherein the one or more physiological sensors comprises a blood oxygen sensor adapted to detect decreased blood oxygen levels, a blood pressure sensor adapted to detect increased blood pressure, a heart rate sensor adapted to detect increased heart rate, a body temperature sensor adapted to detect increased core temperature, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased respiration rate, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased perspiration, or a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased muscle activity. ### Claim 17 A body-worn glucose sensor device comprising a sensor housing adapted to be adhered to a user's skin; a sensor shaft adapted to penetrate under the user's skin when the housing is adhered to the user's skin; one or more physiological sensors adapted to detect a user's activity characteristics; a power source; and a communication circuit that permits glucose data and data from the one or more physiological sensors indicative of a user's activity characteristics to be wirelessly transmitted to a controller device that is physically separated from the body-worn glucose sensor device. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The body-worn glucose sensor device of claim 17, wherein the one or more physiological sensors comprises a blood oxygen sensor adapted to detect decreased blood oxygen levels, a blood pressure sensor adapted to detect increased blood pressure, a heart rate sensor adapted to detect increased heart rate, a body temperature sensor adapted to detect increased core temperature, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased respiration rate, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased perspiration, a physiological sensor adapted to detect increased muscle activity, or an accelerometer. ### Claim 19 (depends on 17) The body-worn glucose sensor device of claim 17, wherein the one or more physiological sensors are arranged along the sensor shaft so as to penetrate into the user's body when the glucose sensor device is in operation.