US 11,721,422 B2
Device for monitoring medicament delivery devices
Stefan Gylleby, Stockholm (SE); Nikolaj Hautaviita, Bro (SE); Daniel Säll, Segeltorp (SE); and Rasmus Renstad, Stockholm (SE)
Assigned to SHL MEDICAL AG, Zug (CH)
Filed by SHL MEDICAL AG, Zug (CH)
Filed on Jan. 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/158,864.
Application 17/158,864 is a continuation of application No. 15/577,659, granted, now 10,943,685, previously published as PCT/EP2016/062976, filed on Jun. 8, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15171973 (EP), filed on Jun. 12, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2021/0158926 A1, May 27, 2021
Int. Cl. G16H 20/17 (2018.01); A61M 5/32 (2006.01); A61B 90/98 (2016.01); A61B 50/30 (2016.01); A61B 50/24 (2016.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61B 50/36 (2016.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 20/17 (2018.01) [A61B 50/24 (2016.02); A61B 50/30 (2016.02); A61B 50/36 (2016.02); A61B 90/98 (2016.02); A61M 5/3205 (2013.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61B 2017/00221 (2013.01); A61M 2205/52 (2013.01); A61M 2205/6054 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for disposing of used medical devices and medical wastes comprising:
a disposable sharps container designed to (a) accept used medical devices or medical wastes that are thrown directly into the sharps container by a user such that a biohazardous transfer of diseases or accidental needle sticks is prevented once the used medical devices or the medical wastes are directly deposited in the sharps container and (b) prevent the deposited used medical devices or medical wastes from being removed from the sharps container; and
an information obtaining mechanism that is directly connected to the sharps container, where the information obtaining mechanism comprises an information reader that reads information wirelessly from information tags that are attached to the deposited medical wastes or to used medical devices when entering or contained within the sharps container,
wherein the information obtaining mechanism is configured so that both the sharps container and the used medical devices or medical wastes deposited into the sharps container can be individually identified and traced as the sharps container is transferred from a user of the sharps container to enterprises that are authorized to safely destroy the sharps container,
wherein the information obtained from the reader is transmitted to an external information receiver that is separate and distinct from the information obtaining mechanism,
wherein the transmitted information obtained from the reader comprises a list of the used medical devices or medical wastes that are thrown directly into the sharps container, and
wherein disposal of the sharps container results in simultaneous disposable of the medical devices or medical wastes, the information reader and the information tags.