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US 10,503,876 B2Granted
Methods and apparatus for enhancing a medication delivery device
AssigneeAscensia Diabetes Care Holdings AG
InventorsIgor Y. Gofman, Jun Chen, James A. Johnson
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention provide systems, methods, and apparatus for attaching an automated dose setting apparatus to a medication delivery device, receiving a first signal from an analyte monitoring system, the first signal indicating a dose of medication to be administered, and driving a dose knob of the medication delivery device with the automated dose setting apparatus to set a dose corresponding with the dose of medication to be administered. Numerous other aspects are disclosed.
Claims20
An apparatus, comprising:
- a first portion coupleable onto a top of a manually-operated dose knob of a medication delivery device;
- and
- a second portion coupled to the first portion and coupleable onto a top of a housing of the medication delivery device,
- wherein the second portion is operable to receive dose information electronically from an external device and to drive the first portion to operate the dose knob to set a dosage of the medication delivery device.
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A method, comprising:
- attaching an automated dose setting apparatus onto a top of a medication delivery device;
- receiving a first signal from an external analyte monitoring system, the first signal indicating a dose of medication to be administered;
- and
- driving a manually-operated dose knob of the medication delivery device with the automated dose setting apparatus to set a dose corresponding with the dose of medication to be administered.
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An apparatus, comprising:
- a first portion coupleable onto a top of a manually-operated dose knob of a medication delivery device, the first portion movable to operate the dose knob;
- and
- a second portion coupled to the first portion and coupleable onto a top of a housing of the medication delivery device,
- wherein the second portion is operable to monitor movement of the first portion and to transmit a signal electronically to an external device indicative of a dose of medication administered with the medication delivery device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.