Smart Pill Container Device and Platform System
AssigneeSharp Solutions LLC
InventorsDaniel S. Sharp, II, Zigmond Robert Gustafson
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Abstract
A smart pill container and system integrating the same, the smart pill container having a number of pill wells for storing different doses of medication according to a prescribed medical regimen, where an opening in the pill container provides at least one user with access to the medication stored in a particular one of the pill wells at a given dosing time, and where a platform associated with the pill container provides instructions for dosing such medication and monitors use of the pill container for compliance with the prescribed medical regimen.
Claims17
A smart pill container comprising:
- a. a housing forming an internal compartment;
- b. a rotatable pill carriage positioned inside the internal compartment, the pill carriage comprising a number of pill wells each configured to store a number of pills of a particular medication;
- c. at least one camera operable to image for each of the number of pill wells the pills stored inside the particular pill well, wherein the image is utilized to determine an identity of each of the pills inside the particular pill well, thereby allowing for the determination of an occurrence of a mis-dose in the particular pill well if any pills inside the particular pill well are identified to be not of the particular medication;
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- d. an opening in the housing;
- wherein the opening is positioned to provide access to the one or more pills stored in a first of the number of pill wells at a first dosing time, further wherein the pill carriage is configured to rotate such the opening provides access to the one or more pills stored in a each of the remaining number of pill wells at each of a number of subsequent dosing times, and further wherein the smart pill container is configured to prohibit user access to any of the number of Dill wells determined to have a mis-dose in the particular pill well.
A smart system for administering medication to a patient and monitoring compliance with a medication schedule of the patient, the system comprising:
- a. a pill container comprising:
- i. a housing forming an internal compartment;
- ii. a rotatable pill carriage positioned inside the internal compartment, the pill carriage comprising:
- 1. a number of regularly scheduled pill wells configured to store one or more pills of at least one regularly scheduled medication prescribed according to a prescribed medical regimen;
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- 2. an emergency pill well configured to store one or more pills of an emergency medication different than the regularly scheduled medication;
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- iii. an opening in the housing;
- wherein the opening is configured to provide access to the one or more pills stored in a first of the number of regularly scheduled pill wells at a first dosing time, further wherein the pill carriage is configured to rotate such the opening provides access to the one or more pills stored in each of the remaining number of regularly scheduled pill wells at each of a number of subsequent dosing times;
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- b. at least one user device in communication with the pill container and configured to access a computerized platform, the computerized platform configured to:
- monitor whether the user accesses the medications stored in the number of regularly scheduled pill wells to determine user compliance with the prescribed medical regimen;
- ii. transmit alerts to the at least one user device indicating compliance or non-compliance with the prescribed medical regimen;
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- iii. provide the user a selective option to allow access to the emergency pill well through the opening in the housing
- wherein the opening in the housing is configured to provide access to the one or more pills of the emergency medication stored in the emergency pill well only upon the selective allowance by the user at the user device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.