Smart cap
AssigneeDigital Medical Technologies, LLC
InventorsHelmars E. Ozolins, Christopher Ryan Waldenburg, Eric Nelson, Peter D. Scott
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Abstract
A smart medication container cap for medication management and related devices, systems and methods for medication management are provided. The smart cap ensures ensuring accuracy in dispensing, prompts the user promoting compliance, collects information about the medication, transmits the information to a central server or LAN, determining container contents, locations, and surroundings, remotely manages the same, transmits alerts to the user, and communicates with a computer system for the same.
Claims21
A medication container cap, comprising:
- memory;
- a top cap portion configured to be coupled to a bottom cap portion, the bottom cap portion having an interior portion configured for insertion of at least one of:
- another cap, a portion of a medication container, and any combination thereof;
- the top cap portion configured to include at least one processor and at least one communication module, the at least one processor is configured to:
- compare a first medication data with a second medication data stored in the memory;
- and
- generate a message indicating whether the medication container cap has been positioned on an incorrect medication container responsive to the comparison of the first medication data with the second medication data.
A method for executing medication management, comprising:
- providing a medication container cap, the medication container cap including
- a top cap portion configured to be coupled to a bottom cap portion, the bottom cap portion having an interior portion configured for insertion of at least one of:
- another cap, a portion of a medication container, and any combination thereof;
- the top cap portion configured to include at least one processor and at least one communication module, the at least one processor is configured to:
- compare a first medication data with a second medication data stored in memory of the medication container cap;
- and
- generate a message indicating whether the medication container cap has been positioned on a correct medication container responsive to the comparison of the first medication data with the second medication data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.