Single dose inhaler monitoring attachment

US11071836B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Reciprocal Labs Corporation · US

Inventors

• Samuel A. Koblenski · Madison, US
• Gregory F. Tracy · Madison, US
• David Hubanks · Madison, US
• Amber Michelle Markey · Madison, US
• Benjamin Kopp · Kornwestheim, DE
• Justin Krosschell · Sioux Falls, US
• Leah Morrell · Madison, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 29, 2018
• Grant date: Jul 27, 2021
• Expiry date: Jun 27, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H50/30
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A medicament device sensor (Sensor) comprises a body, a front wall, a back wall, an audio sensor, and a plurality of pressure sensors. The body includes a bottom surface on which the various sensors are coupled. The front wall and the back wall provide mirror symmetry in at most one plane, thereby defining a single orientation in which the Sensor attaches to the medicament device. The front wall includes a securement clip that attaches to a ledge on the medicament device. To detect secure attachment of the Sensor to the medicament device, one pressure sensor detects pressure when the Sensor is secured to the medicament device. Another one or more pressure sensors detect depression of one or more dosing buttons confirming priming of the medicament device. The audio sensor detects an inhalation confirming dispensing of medicament. In effect, the Sensor determines a dispensing event has occurred.