US 12,070,584 B2
Data collection device for attachment to an injection device
Frank Erbstein, Frankfurt am Main (DE); Paul Richard Draper, Worcestershire (GB); Robert Frederick Veasey, Warwickshire (GB); David Aubrey Plumptre, Worcestershire (GB); and Joseph Butler, Warwickshire (GB)
Assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Filed by Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Filed on Jan. 12, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/574,449.
Application 17/574,449 is a continuation of application No. 16/806,810, filed on Mar. 2, 2020, granted, now 11,278,677.
Application 16/806,810 is a continuation of application No. 16/555,772, filed on Aug. 29, 2019, granted, now 11,020,533, issued on Jun. 1, 2021.
Application 16/555,772 is a continuation of application No. 15/551,971, granted, now 10,420,895, issued on Sep. 24, 2019, previously published as PCT/EP2016/052987, filed on Feb. 12, 2016.
Claims priority of application No. 15155758 (EP), filed on Feb. 19, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0134009 A1, May 5, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. A61M 5/315 (2006.01); A61M 5/20 (2006.01); A61M 5/24 (2006.01); A61M 5/31 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/3155 (2013.01) [A61M 5/20 (2013.01); A61M 5/31568 (2013.01); A61M 5/24 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3126 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3306 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3317 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3327 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3561 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01); A61M 2205/502 (2013.01); A61M 2205/52 (2013.01); A61M 2205/581 (2013.01)] 21 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A data collection device comprising:
a housing;
a mating arrangement configured for attachment to a dosage knob of an injection device such that the housing circumferentially surrounds at least a portion of an outer surface of the dosage knob and such that a user may grip and rotate the housing to cause the dosage knob to rotate in concert with the entire data collection device;
a sensor arrangement configured to detect movement of a movable dosage programming component of the injection device relative to the data collection device during delivery of a medicament, the detected movement being used to determine a medicament dosage administered by the injection device; and
a processor arrangement.