US 11,238,964 B2Granted

Event tracking for advanced therapy medicinal products

AssigneeAtmps Ltd

InventorRaja Sharif

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Abstract

There is provided a system for tracking events associated with a treatment by personalised medicine, the system comprising a plurality of nodes hosting a blockchain. The plurality of nodes include a plurality of sequence manager nodes, each associated with a respective sequence manager contract on the blockchain, and a hub node associated with a hub contract on the blockchain. A first sequence manager contract of the sequence manager contracts is arranged to receive first event data indicating a first event associated with the treatment, and store the first event data on the blockchain in association with a first event sequence. The hub contract is arranged to store an association between the first event sequence and one or more further event sequences associated with the treatment, on the blockchain.

Claims13

Dependent claims

A system for tracking events associated with a treatment by personalised medicine, the system comprising:

a plurality of computers and servers hosting a blockchain, the blockchain having:
an associated state storage;
and
an updateable sequence of blocks,
wherein the blockchain has a state of the blockchain that is stored on the associated state storage and the updateable sequence of blocks is used in verifying changes to the state of the blockchain,
the plurality of computers and servers comprising:
a plurality of sequence manager nodes each associated with a respective sequence manager contract forming part of the state of the blockchain, each sequence manager contract having associated sequence manager contract storage;
and
a hub node associated with a hub contract forming part of the state of the blockchain, the hub contract having associated hub contract storage,
wherein:
the first sequence manager node is arranged to transmit first event data to a first sequence manager contract associated with the first sequence manager node, the first event data indicating a receiving of custody associated with the treatment;
the first sequence manager contract is arranged to:
store the first event data on the blockchain in association with a first event sequence in a manner to change the state of the blockchain;
and
transmit first sequence data to the hub contract, the first sequence data identifying the first event sequence;
and
responsive to receiving the first sequence data from the first sequence manager contract, the hub contract is arranged to store, in the hub contract storage, association data indicating an association between the first event sequence and one or more further event sequences associated with the treatment in a manner to change the state of the blockchain;
and
the first event data and the association data are verifiable using the updateable sequence of blocks.

16 more elements

A system for tracking events associated with a treatment by personalised medicine, the system comprising:

a plurality of computers and servers hosting a blockchain, the blockchain having:
an associated state storage;
and
an updateable sequence of blocks,
wherein the blockchain has a state of the blockchain that is stored on the associated state storage and the updateable sequence of blocks is used in verifying changes to the state of the blockchain,
a plurality of sequence manager nodes each associated with a respective sequence manager contract forming part of the state of the blockchain, each sequence manager contract having associated hub contract storage,
wherein:
the first sequence manager node is arranged to transmit first event data to a first sequence manager contract associated with the first sequence manager node, the first event data indicating a first event associated with the treatment and comparing a timestamp associated with the first event;
the first sequence manager contract is arranged to:
determine whether a difference between the timestamp associated with the first event and a timestamp associated with an earlier event associated with the treatment does not exceed a threshold duration of time;
and
in the event that the difference is determined not to exceed the threshold duration of time, store the first event data on the blockchain in association with a first event sequence in a manner to change the state of the blockchain;
the hub contract is arranged to store, in the hub contract storage, association data indicating an association between the first event sequence and one or more further event sequences associated with the treatment in a manner to change the state of the blockchain;
and
the first event data and the association data are verifiable using the updateable sequence of blocks.

12 more elements

A system for tracking events associated with a treatment by personalised medicine, the system comprising:

an automatic temperature sensor for measuring a temperature of physical materials associated with the treatment;
and
a plurality of computers and servers hosting a blockchain having:
an associated state storage;
and
an updateable sequence of blocks,
wherein the blockchain has a state of the blockchain that is stored on the associated state storage and the updateable sequence of blocks is used in verifying changes to the state of the blockchain,
the plurality of computers and servers comprising:
a plurality of sequence manager nodes each associated with a respective sequence manager contract forming part of the state of the blockchain, each sequence manager contract having associated sequence manager contract storage;
and
a hub node associated with a hub contract forming part of the state of the blockchain, the hub contract having associated hub contract storage,
wherein:
the automatic temperature sensor is arranged to transmit the measured temperature of the physical materials to a first sequence manager node of the sequence manager nodes;
the first sequence manager node is arranged to transmit first event data to a first sequence manager contract associated with the first sequence manager node, the first event data indicating a first event associated with the treatment and indicating the measured temperature of the physical materials;
the first sequence manager contract is arranged to:
determine whether the measured temperature lies within a predetermined range;
and
in the event that the measured temperature is determined to lie within the predetermined range, store the first event data in the associated sequence manager contract storage in association with a first event sequence in a manner to change the state of the blockchain;
the hub contract is arranged to store, in the hub contract storage, association data indicating an association between the first event sequence and one or more further event sequences associated with the treatment in a manner to change the state of the blockchain;
and
the first event data and the association data are verifiable using the updateable sequence of blocks.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/320,931Filed 14 May 2021 · continuation
Priority: GB 190399022 Mar 2019
Published: US 2021/0272665 A12 Sep 2021
Granted: 1 Feb 2022
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification9 codes

G16H 10/40
ICT specially adapted for the handling or processing of patient-related medical or healthcare data: for data related to laboratory analysis, e.g.…
G16H 20/00
Ict specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans
G16H 20/10
ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient…:…
H04L 9/3297
Including means for verifying the identity or authority of a user of the system or for message authentication, e.g. authorization, entity…:…