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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2022
Berkshire Biomedical Corporation, Dallas, TX (US);
Thomas M. Rouse, Dallas, TX (US);
Susan B. Owen, Dallas, TX (US);
Christy Corey, Fishers, IN (US);
Carlton Chow, Dallas, TX (US);
Michael Turi, Dallas, TX (US);
Larry Bischoff, Dallas, TX (US);
Steven Hartman, Dallas, TX (US);
Robert Boyer, Dallas, TX (US);
Richard Cronenberg, Dallas, TX (US);
Michael Quinn, Dallas, TX (US);
James Lynch, Dallas, TX (US);
Berkshire Biomedical, LLC, Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A substance dispensing apparatus comprises a housing for handheld use and a mouthpiece coupled to the housing. The housing comprises a biometric sensor and a cavity sized to receive a reservoir. The mouthpiece comprises a recess and a capacitive sensor array. The apparatus further comprises a pump coupled to the mouthpiece and couplable to the reservoir and comprises a processor in communication with the biometric sensor, capacitive sensor array, and pump. The processor is configured to cause the pump to automatically dispense a substance from the reservoir to a mouth of an intended user via the mouthpiece in response to determining that: a unique biometric attribute of the intended user is detected by the biometric sensor based on biometric data from the biometric sensor; and a unique dentition of the intended user is positioned within the recess of the mouthpiece based on dentition data from the capacitive sensor array.