US 11,744,953 B2
Device and system for obtaining medicament related information
Markus Bauss, Lengdorf (DE)
Assigned to SHL MEDICAL AG, Zug (CH)
Appl. No. 16/319,706
Filed by Carebay Europe Ltd., Sliema (MT)
PCT Filed Jun. 28, 2017, PCT No. PCT/EP2017/065947
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jan. 22, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/015118, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 25, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 16180921 (EP), filed on Jul. 22, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2021/0275754 A1, Sep. 9, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 5/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/315 (2006.01); G06K 19/06 (2006.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01)
CPC A61M 5/31568 (2013.01) [A61M 5/002 (2013.01); G06K 19/06028 (2013.01); G06K 19/06037 (2013.01); G16H 20/10 (2018.01); A61M 2205/3561 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3584 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3592 (2013.01); A61M 2205/52 (2013.01); A61M 2205/6072 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for obtaining medicament related information of specific medicaments, the system comprises:
a first device configured as a medicament delivery device contained within a housing having a terminal distal end, where the first device delivers a medicament contained in the first device directly to a user from a proximal end of the housing that is opposite the terminal distal end, where the terminal distal end comprises an activator projecting distally outward and a distally facing three-dimensional contact surface comprising distally projecting rings or grooves arranged in a first pattern, where the activator contains medicament related information specific to the medicament;
a second device configured with a corresponding shape of the first device and configured for releasable connection to the terminal distal end of the first device so as to monitor usage of medicament by the first device and to transfer usage information from the first device to the second device, where the second device comprises a terminal proximal end comprising a proximally facing three-dimensional contact surface having proximally projecting rings or grooves arranged in a second pattern, where when the first pattern matches and corresponds to the second pattern a connection is possible between the first and second devices to create a contact interface that causes a transfer of the medicament related information from the activator to the second device, the second device comprising:
a recording unit, said recording unit comprising
a reader, capable of reading information pertaining to specific medicaments, said recording unit further comprising
a memory module capable of storing information read by said reader,
wherein the medicament does not transfer from the first device to the second device,
wherein the proximally facing three-dimensional contact surface is arranged with one or more proximally facing switches that are activated by contact with one or more distally projecting surfaces on the distally facing three-dimensional contact surface when the contact interface is formed, and
wherein the medicament related information contained on the activator is read by the reader when the contact interface is formed.