Smart pill box
AssigneeViva Life, Inc.
InventorsHarry L. Wingate, III, William H. Wingate, Joshua D. Wingate
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Abstract
A device for organizing and tracking medication. The device includes compartments to contain medication, and each compartment includes an access door. A sensor element can detect if the device is moved, if the access door is opened and/or closed, and/or if medications have been placed into or removed from a compartment. A processor and/or external computing system provides alarms if medications is not properly taken, a filling service for stuffing the compartments and an administration service to verify the medications are properly taken.
Claims20
An apparatus for organizing and tracking medication:
- a plurality of compartments, each of the plurality of compartments being configured to house one or more pills and including an access door;
- a sensor element configured to detect opening of a particular access door;
- a memory element;
- a processor communicatively coupled to the sensor element and the memory element, and in response to instructions within the memory element, the processor is configured to:
- read a medication dosage schedule from the memory element;
- access the sensor element to determine if the particular access door has been opened within a particular window of time that a medication dosage is due based on the medication dosage schedule;
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- trigger an alarm if the apparatus was not moved during the particular window of time.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.