US 12,290,382 B2
Process and devices for activating a drug measuring device, especially an alcohol measuring device
Alexander Sarcinelli, Lübeck (DE); Michael Richenberger, Lübeck (DE); and Carlo Rattey, Lübeck (DE)
Assigned to DRÄGER SAFETY AG & CO. KGAA, Lübeck (DE)
Filed by Dräger Safety AG & Co. KGaA, Lübeck (DE)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/531,900.
Application 18/531,900 is a division of application No. 17/082,763, filed on Oct. 28, 2020, granted, now 11,883,193.
Claims priority of application No. 10 2019 007 620.6 (DE), filed on Nov. 4, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2024/0108284 A1, Apr. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/18 (2006.01); A61B 10/00 (2006.01); G06V 40/16 (2022.01); G06V 40/50 (2022.01)
CPC A61B 5/4845 (2013.01) [A61B 5/0004 (2013.01); A61B 5/0015 (2013.01); A61B 5/18 (2013.01); A61B 5/742 (2013.01); A61B 5/7475 (2013.01); G06V 40/172 (2022.01); G06V 40/50 (2022.01); A61B 2010/0009 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring system for monitoring a drug measuring device comprising an input unit configured for a person to give a user sample into the drug measuring device, a testing unit configured to detect a result that a content of at least one predefined substance in the given user sample received into the drug measuring device is above a predefined limit, and an image recording device configured to take at least one image of the person who gave a sample into the input unit, the monitoring system comprising:
at least one environmental sensor configured to measure an ambient condition, under which the drug measuring device is used or can be used;
an analysis unit configured to detect an event that at least one ambient condition measured by the environmental sensor or by an environmental sensor is outside a predefined desired range;
a data transmission unit; and
a control device configured to respond to the analysis unit detecting a measured ambient condition outside the respective desired range by generating a signal characterizing this event and configured to prompt the data transmission unit to transmit a message with said signal to at least one predefined receiver located at a distant location in space from the drug measuring device, wherein the desired range is predefined for the ambient condition such that the ambient condition has no harmful effect on the drug measuring device if the ambient condition is within the desired range.