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US 9,308,151 B2Granted
Sensor equipped medicinal container
AssigneeNantWorks, LLC
InventorsRahul Chaturvedi, Emerico Alberto Brewer, Jin Hyup Lee, Patrick Soon-Shiong
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Abstract
Medicinal container bags are presented. Bags can include openers capable of sealing an opening of the bag. Disclosed bags further comprise electronic assemblies configured to detect opening or closing events as the openers move along the rims of the bag opening. The assemblies can compile usage data based on opener movement, and then provide the data to remote monitoring systems.
Claims23
A sensor equipped bag comprising:
- a main body having an opening and a cavity defined by one or more flexible walls;
- a flexible seal assembly comprising non-rigid rims attached to an opening in the main body and configured to seal the cavity by joining the non-rigid rims;
- an opener coupled with the seal assembly and capable of opening or closing the seal assembly by coupling or decoupling the non-rigid rim respectively;
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- an electronic assembly comprising an opener sensor circuit configured to detect partial opening of the bag, including estimating an opening size, based on resistance measurements between a closed position of the opener and a current position of the opener.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.