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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 14, 1991
Filed:
Dec. 26, 1989
Kenneth P Glynn, Raritan Township, Hunterdon County, NJ (US);
Tenax-Glynn Corporation, Flemington, NJ (US);
Abstract
The present invention is directed to a cap for a medicine bottle for monitoring a patient's medicine compliance. It involves weighing a container of medicine with cap which includes scale means located therein which is connected to a computer chip with a display unit also located in or on the cap. The chip may store the starting weight or tare weight, plus total weight and when the container or medicine is picked up by the cap at any time, actual weight is fed to the chip. The computer chip may then determine the difference between the starting weight and/or display actual amount of medicine remaining or consumed. The container of medicine is reweighed from time to time with the cap and the chip may compare actual weight with compliance required weight to determine compliance and the cap may visually display the compliance results on the display unit to inform the patient. An optional audio assist may direct the patient to 'call the doctor' if a significant compliance deviation is recognized.