Drug Delivery Capsules with external intelligence
AssigneeStoco 10 GmbH
InventorsVentzeslav Petrov Iordanov, Hans Zou, Christoph Wanke, Klaas Kerkhop, Jeffrey A. Shimizu
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Abstract
A system for administering a medicament includes a plurality of capsules, a capsule dispenser, and a capsule activator. Each of the capsules includes a reservoir containing a medicament and an outlet in communication with the reservoir through which the medicament exits the capsule. The capsule dispenser releasably contains the ingestible capsules and is adapted to dispense the capsules to a user in accordance with a predetermined schedule. The capsule activator activates the dispensed capsules prior to administration to the user.
Claims27
A system for administering a medicament comprising:
- a plurality of capsules, each capsule comprising:
- a reservoir containing a medicament, and an outlet through which the medicament is released from the reservoir,
- a switch selectively activatable to change the capsule between a passive state and an active state,
- each capsule being configurable in the active state in which a triggering event results in release of the medicament from the reservoir and the passive state in which the triggering event does not result in release of the medicament from the reservoir;
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- a capsule dispenser comprising:
- a receptacle releasably containing the plurality of capsules each of the plurality of capsules being in the passive state in the receptacle,
- a capsule activator configured to activate the switch of the capsule by changing the capsule from the passive state to the active state, and an access opening through which the user accesses at least one of the plurality of capsules, wherein the at least one of the plurality of capsules is activated by the capsule activator prior to the capsule being placed at the access opening or while located at the access opening.
A method of administering a medicament to a subject, comprising:
- storing a plurality of capsules in a storage unit in a passive state, each of the capsules including a reservoir containing the medicament and an outlet through which the medicament is released from the reservoir, each of the capsules comprising a switch selectively activatable to change the capsule between the passive state and an active state, and each capsule being configurable in the active state in which a triggering event results in release of the medicament from the reservoir and the passive state in which the triggering event does not result in release of the medicament from the reservoir;
- activating a first capsule by changing the first capsule from the passive state to the active state by activating the switch, and
- placing the activated first capsule at an access opening of the storage unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.