US 11,735,305 B2
Automatic configuration of user-specific data based on placement into service
Afshin Bazargan, Simi Valley, CA (US); Patrick E. Weydt, Moorpark, CA (US); Hans K. Wenstad, Santa Clarita, CA (US); Adam S. Trock, Simi Valley, CA (US); Seung C. Shin, Los Angeles, CA (US); and Samuel Finney, Los Angeles, CA (US)
Assigned to Medtronic MiniMed, Inc., Northridge, CA (US)
Filed by Medtronic MiniMed, Inc., Northridge, CA (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/212,956.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/044,993, filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0407644 A1, Dec. 30, 2021
Int. Cl. G08B 21/04 (2006.01); G16H 20/17 (2018.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61M 5/172 (2006.01); A61M 5/142 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 20/17 (2018.01) [A61M 5/1723 (2013.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); A61M 2005/14252 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3327 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3553 (2013.01); A61M 2205/52 (2013.01); A61M 2230/201 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for automatically configuring a medical device with user-specific configuration data, the method comprising:
determining, by a first medical device, that the first medical device is being placed into service to provide medical therapy to a patient, wherein the first medical device is a replacement medical device for a second medical device that was previously placed into service to provide medical therapy to the patient in accordance with user-specific configuration data stored on the second medical device, wherein determining that the first medical device is being placed into service comprises at least one of a group including:
responsive to receiving user input, establishing a communication link through which the first medical device obtains the user-specific configuration data;
determining that a first portion of the first medical device is removably attached to a second portion of the first medical device;
determining activation of a cannula insertion mechanism associated with the first medical device;
processing a signal from a skin contact sensor associated with the first medical device;
determining actuation of a mechanical switch between the first medical device and the patient; and
determining that a glucose sensor is in contact with interstitial fluid;
communicating, by the first medical device, data indicative of the first medical device being placed into service;
after communicating the data indicative of the first medical device being placed into service, obtaining, by the first medical device, the user-specific configuration data stored on the second medical device; and
configuring, by the first medical device, the first medical device to provide therapy in accordance with the obtained user-specific configuration data.