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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 17, 2019

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2016
Applicant:

Sanofi-aventis Deutschland Gmbh, Frankfurt am Main, DE;

Inventors:

Christoph Gugl, Wil, CH;

Johannes Eckstein, Wil, CH;

Adrian Geiger, Wil, CH;

Philipp Muller, Wil, CH;

Assignee:

Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH, Frankfurt am Main, DE;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/34 (2006.01); A61M 5/315 (2006.01); A61M 5/31 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61M 5/31568 (2013.01); A61M 5/31 (2013.01); A61M 5/3157 (2013.01); G06K 9/344 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); A61M 2005/3126 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3306 (2013.01); A61M 2205/3569 (2013.01); A61M 2205/505 (2013.01); A61M 2205/52 (2013.01); A61M 2205/6063 (2013.01); A61M 2205/8206 (2013.01); G06K 2209/01 (2013.01); G06K 2209/057 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosure provides a supplemental device configured for removable attachment to a medicament injection device. The supplemental device includes a display, a processor arrangement, at least one memory, and an image-capturing component. The processor arrangement is configured to cause the supplemental device to: (i) use the image capturing component to capture successive images of a medicament dosage indicated by a medicament dispensing device, (ii) successively display the captured images on the display, (iii) perform optical character recognition on captured images to identify medicament dosage indicated by the medicament dispensing device when the images were captured, (iv) and make a non-transient record of delivered dosage information in the at least one memory based at least in part on the identified medicament dosage.


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