US 11,857,504 B1
Patient-controlled liquid oral medicine dispenser and deactivation system
Daniel Wiznia, New Haven, CT (US); Jinlei Li, New Haven, CT (US); and Claudia See, New Haven, CT (US)
Assigned to YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT (US)
Filed by YALE UNIVERSITY, New Haven, CT (US)
Filed on Jun. 2, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/328,231.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/418,182, filed on Oct. 21, 2022.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/366,032, filed on Jun. 8, 2022.
Int. Cl. A61J 7/04 (2006.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01); A61J 1/22 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01)
CPC A61J 7/0053 (2013.01) [A61J 1/22 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); A61J 2200/30 (2013.01); A61J 2200/70 (2013.01)] 30 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A patient-controlled oral liquid-medicine dispenser and deactivation system comprising:
a dosing container having:
a defined volumetric capacity; and
a spillway adapted and configured to allow fluid in excess of the defined volumetric capacity to flow out of the dosing container;
a sealed and tamperproof waste receptacle fluidly coupled to the dosing container, the waste receptacle adapted and configured to capture and prevent diversion of liquid medicine dispensed in excess of the defined volumetric capacity of the dosing container; and
a suction apparatus extending between a lower region of the dosing container and outside of the dosing container.