US 12,420,020 B2
System and method for multi-modal dosing device
John Jesse Woodbine, Lafayette, CO (US); Joseph Francis Keenan, Superior, CO (US); and Peter William Calfee, Dorset, VT (US)
Filed by GoFire, Inc., Denver, CO (US)
Filed on Dec. 4, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/111,997.
Application 17/111,997 is a continuation of application No. 16/726,193, filed on Dec. 23, 2019, granted, now 10,888,665.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/787,650, filed on Jan. 2, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2021/0085887 A1, Mar. 25, 2021
Int. Cl. A61M 11/04 (2006.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01); A61M 5/14 (2006.01); A61M 5/24 (2006.01); A61M 5/315 (2006.01); A61M 35/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/31546 (2013.01) [A61J 7/0076 (2013.01); A61M 5/1412 (2013.01); A61M 5/24 (2013.01); A61M 11/041 (2013.01); A61M 35/003 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3327 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3553 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3584 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01); A61M 2205/60 (2013.01)] 32 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A multi-modal product dosing system with cross-modality tracking and lockout, characterized by a control base having a housing at least partially enclosing a cartridge receiver, a cartridge reader, at least one lockout deactivator, a wireless transceiver and a controller structured and arranged to operate the cartridge reader, the at least one lockout deactivator and the wireless transceiver to communicate information with at least one remote computing device, the control base structured and arranged to couple to one of a plurality of different cartridges, each cartridge remaining at least partially external to the housing of the control base and at least two cartridges having different modalities of delivery for a product contained therein, each of the plurality of cartridges characterized by:
a housing at least partially enclosing:
a reservoir of product;
a dispenser structured and arranged to dispense a predetermined amount of product by a predetermined modality of delivery, at least a portion of the dispenser external to the housing of the control base;
at least one data chip structured and arranged to store data regarding the cartridge;
a unique identifier associated with the cartridge and the product, the unique identifier structured and arranged to be determined by the control base; and
at least one lockout mechanism structured and arranged to lockout the dispenser to prevent dispensation of the product even when the cartridge is coupled to the control base, unless the lockout mechanism of the cartridge is disengaged by the lockout deactivator of the control base, and wherein activation of any cartridge following a completed administration of product is inhibited unless authorized.