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US 8,712,587 B2Granted
Medicament container
OwnerMichael Handfield, Helene Laliberteinventors
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Abstract
The invention relates to a method and system that utilizes one or more cassettes or trays that hold medicaments for dispensing. In one embodiment a medicaments container includes control logic configured to enable the medicaments container to operate with an apparatus; control logic configured to determine whether the medicaments container is authorized for operation with the apparatus; and control logic configured to generate an alert if the medicaments container is not authorized for operation with the apparatus.
Claims20
A medicaments container, comprising:
- a housing;
- a chamber within the housing to store a plurality of medicament units in bulk form;
- a motorless dispenser disposed in the housing and configured to dispense a predetermined quantity of the medicament units from the plurality of medicament units in response to a signal from an apparatus, the motorless dispenser comprising a rotatable structure comprising at least one groove configured to hold it predetermined number of medicament units, wherein one dimension of the at least one groove is changeable by sliding a slidably fitted door along the one dimension to accommodate multiple sizes of medicament units;
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- a wireless communication device disposed in the housing and configured to communicate with an external device in accordance with a communication protocol having an anti-collision feature.
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A medicaments container, comprising:
- a housing;
- a chamber within the housing to store a plurality of medicament units in bulk, form;
- means for dispensing a predetermined quantity of the medicament units from the plurality of medicament units in response to a signal from an apparatus, the means for dispensing motorless and comprising a rotatable structure comprising at least one groove configured to hold a predetermined number of medicament units, wherein one dimension of the at least one groove is changeable by sliding a slidably fitted door along the one dimension to accommodate multiple sizes of medicament units;
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- means for communicating with an external device in accordance with a communication protocol having an anti-collision feature.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.