Networked containers designed to promote compliance with a medication regimen
AssigneeVerily Health Inc.
InventorsJonathan Grossman, Jasper L. Steyn
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Abstract
Introduced here are containers designed to promote compliance with regimens for administering the medications stored therein. These containers can facilitate the conveyance of information related to a regimen through the use of a non-written medium. A container may include one or more display elements configured to emit/reflect light to indicate when medication stored in the container should be administered. An example of a display element is a light-emitting diode (LED). Emittance/reflectance of the light by the display element(s) may be governed by a different clock signal than the clock signal used to determine whether doses of medication are due to be administered.
Claims16
A method comprising:
- examining a dosing schedule that is associated with a medication stored in a network-connected container;
- in response to a determination that a dose of the medication is due to be administered,
- causing light to be emitted by a first illuminant through a first aperture that is formed in the network-connected container, so as to create a first illuminated symbol whose shape corresponds to the first aperture;
- in response to a determination that the dose of the medication is not due to be administered,
- causing light to be emitted by a second illuminant through a second aperture that is formed in the network-connected container, so as to create a second illuminated symbol whose shape corresponds to the second aperture;
- recording data related to an administration of the dose of the medication;
- transmitting the data to a destination across a wireless network;
- and
- receiving, from the destination, a reference clock signal to be used to determine when a next dose of the medication is due to be administered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.