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US 2025/0018124 A1Published application
User equipment, electronic system, drug delivery device, method, machine-readable code, data storage medium, and set
AssigneeSanofi
InventorsStefan Alt, Michael Helmer
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Abstract
A user equipment is proposed comprising an electronic control unit (42) and a wireless communication unit (44) operatively connected to the electronic control unit, the electronic control unit (42) being configured to control operation of the wireless communication unit (44), the wireless communication unit being operable to determine at least one characteristic associated with at least one component of a drug delivery device (10). Furthermore, an electronic system, a drug delivery device, a method, a machine-readable code, a data storage medium, and a set are provided.
Claims19
A user equipment, e.g. a smart watch, comprising:
- an electronic control unit (42), and
- a wireless communication unit (44) operatively connected to the electronic control unit, the electronic control unit (42) being configured
- to control operation of the wireless communication unit (44), the wireless communication unit being operable to determine at least one characteristic associated with at least one component of a drug delivery device (10),
- to evaluate the at least one determined characteristic, and
- based on the result of the evaluation to issue or to decide whether to issue one or more control unit commands, wherein the one or more control unit commands comprise commands configured to cause
- a) an equipment signaling unit of the user equipment to present information relating to the drug delivery device to the user, the information being based on the at least one determined characteristic, and/or to cause
- b) the wireless communication unit to send a system command to an electronic system of or for the drug delivery device.
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The user equipment of any one of the preceding claims,
- wherein the at least one determined characteristic comprises the distance between or the proximity of the component of the drug delivery device (10) and the user equipment and evaluating the at least one determined characteristic comprises determining whether the component or the entire drug delivery device is within a predetermined distance of the user equipment, and wherein, only when the component or the drug delivery device is within the predetermined distance, the unlock command is sent as the system command.
The user equipment of any one of the preceding claims,
- wherein the at least one determined characteristic comprises identifiers of at least two components of the drug delivery device (10), e.g. component-type identifiers, wherein evaluating the at least one determined characteristic comprises determining whether the at least two components of the drug delivery device are compatible with one another, and wherein the user equipment is configured to send the unlock command only when the components are compatible with one another.
The user equipment of any one of the preceding claims,
- wherein the user equipment (40) comprises the equipment signaling unit (46), and wherein the equipment signaling unit is operatively connected to the electronic control unit (42) and, on instruction by the electronic control unit (42), configured to indicate at least one of the following:
- a device identification to indicate a drug delivery device (10) which the user should use for an upcoming medicament administration,
- information on the compatibility of components of the drug delivery device,
- a ready state of the drug delivery device, especially a state after having sent the unlock command, and/or
- a dose amount to be set in the drug delivery device (10) for a dose delivery operation.
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A user equipment, e.g. a smart watch, comprising:
- an electronic control unit (42), and
- a wireless communication unit (44) operatively connected to the electronic control unit, the electronic control unit (42) being configured
- to control operation of the wireless communication unit (44), the wireless communication unit being operable to determine at least one characteristic associated with at least one component of a drug delivery device (10),
- wherein the at least one characteristic comprises the distance between or the proximity of the component and the user equipment, e.g. its wireless communication unit,
- to evaluate the at least one determined characteristic, and
- based on the result of the evaluation to issue or to decide whether to issue one or more control unit commands, wherein the one or more control unit commands comprise commands configured to cause
- a) an equipment signaling unit of the user equipment to present information relating to the drug delivery device to the user, the information being based on the at least one determined characteristic, and/or to cause
- b) the wireless communication unit to send a system command to an electronic system of or for the drug delivery device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.