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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2018
Monitoring device for monitoring the delivery and taking of medication pills and a monitoring method
Applicant:
Koninklijke Philips N.v., Eindhoven, NL;
Inventors:
Assignee:
KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V., Eindhoven, NL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61J 7/04 (2006.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61J 7/0436 (2015.05); A61J 7/0418 (2015.05); A61J 7/0454 (2015.05); A61J 7/0084 (2013.01); A61J 7/0445 (2015.05); A61J 7/0481 (2013.01); A61J 2200/30 (2013.01); G16H 20/13 (2018.01);
Abstract
A device is provided for monitoring the delivery and taking of medication pills by detecting both the passage of a pill and the covering of a pill outlet region, which is indicative of an active operation of the user to remove the pill from the pill outlet region. In this way, pill delivery can be monitored as well as an indication of actual pill taking.