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US 6,929,636 B1Granted
Internal drug dispenser capsule medical device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorThomas W. von Alten
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Abstract
The present invention provides a swallowable internal drug medical device. The device includes a swallowable capsule. A sensing module is disposed in the capsule. A bioactive substance dispenser is disposed in the capsule. A memory and logic component is disposed in the capsule and in communication with the sensing module and the dispenser.
Claims25
A swallowable internal drug medical device comprising:
- a swallowable capsule including:
- a sensing module configured to sense a biologic condition within a digestive tract;
- a bioactive substance dispenser including a container for holding a volume of bioactive substance and a microactuator configured to dispense the bioactive substance from the container;
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- a memory and logic component in communication with the sensing module and the dispenser, including at least one of stored data of biologic conditions in the digestive tract and stored predetermined criteria for dispensing, the memory and logic component being configured to trigger the microactuator of the dispenser to dispense the bioactive substance when the sensed bodily condition corresponds to at least one of the stored data and the stored predetermined criteria.
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A swallowable capsule comprising:
- means for sensing biologic conditions within a digestive tract;
- means for maintaining stored information about a plurality of bodily conditions within a digestive tract;
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- means for dispensing a drug from the capsule within the digestive tract, in communication with the means for sensing and the means for maintaining stored information, acting to dispense the drug based upon the biologic conditions sensed by the means for sensing and based upon the stored information in the means for maintaining stored information.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.