US 11,783,933 B2
Device with identifier
Richurd Gardner, Boscawen, NH (US)
Assigned to SMITHS MEDICAL ASD, INC., Plymouth, MN (US)
Appl. No. 16/472,843
Filed by Smiths Medical ASD, Inc., Plymouth, MN (US)
PCT Filed Feb. 2, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/016633
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jun. 21, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2018/156336, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 30, 2018.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/462,448, filed on Feb. 23, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2019/0355463 A1, Nov. 21, 2019
Int. Cl. G16H 20/17 (2018.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61M 5/315 (2006.01)
CPC G16H 20/17 (2018.01) [A61M 5/315 (2013.01); G16H 10/60 (2018.01); G16H 40/63 (2018.01); A61M 2205/3569 (2013.01); A61M 2205/6072 (2013.01)] 17 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A device having an elongate cylindrical tube including a connector end and an open end, a plunger including a stem having a piston at one end slidably fitted within the tube and a press plate at other end to enable a user to move the plunger relative to the tube, wherein a unique identifier is permanently provided to the plunger of the device at the time of manufacture of the device to store manufacture data of the device, the unique identifier adapted to be read or scanned and associated with patient data relating to at least the procedure and amount and type of medicament the device is used for a patient in a data record file stored in a memory of a computer system such that the device can be individually traced and the history of the device is accessible from its manufacture to its disposal.