Devices and methods for delivering and/or receiving fluid
AssigneeSeventh Sense Biosystems, Inc.
InventorsDonald E. Chickering, III, Li Yang Chu, Sergey Grigoryants, Scott James, Jacob Wachlin
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Abstract
The present invention generally relates to collecting, determining and/or transmitting information associated with the process of receiving bodily fluid through a device opening and/or delivering substances to a subject. In one aspect, the device includes an information collecting portion and a fluid receiving portion. In another aspect, the two portions are constructed and designed to attach to one another. In one embodiment, actuation of one of the portions causes the other portion to actuate. Methods of time keeping and information transmission are also discussed.
Claims58
A device for receiving fluid from a subject, comprising:
- a device actuator;
- a fluid receiving portion constructed and designed to receive fluid from the subject, the fluid receiving portion including a fluid storage chamber for storing the fluid released by the subject;
- an information collecting portion being constructed and designed to attach to the fluid receiving portion, the information collecting portion being constructed and designed to collect information associated with operation of the fluid receiving portion or the fluid stored in the storage chamber,
- wherein activation of the device actuator actuates the fluid receiving portion to begin a fluid collecting process and actuates the information collecting portion to collect information.
An information collecting device for collecting information associated with release of fluid from a subject or receipt of fluid into a medical device, comprising:
- a housing that is constructed and designed to attach to a fluid receiving device having a fluid storage chamber for storing the fluid released by the subject;
- and
- a controller constructed and designed to collect information associated with operation of the fluid receiving device or fluid stored in the storage chamber of the fluid receiving device,
- wherein the information collecting portion is actuated to collect information when the fluid receiving device undergoes a fluid collecting process.
A method of determining a time at which a fluid receiving portion is actuated to cause fluid to be released from a subject, comprising:
- receiving fluid into a fluid receiving device in response to activation of a device actuator;
- actuating a controller of an information collecting portion to begin counting time in response to the activation of the device actuator;
- and
- transmitting time information from the controller to a reader,
- wherein the information collecting portion and the fluid receiving device are constructed and designed to attach to one another.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.