Electronics miniaturization platform for medication verification and tracking

US11094407B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• John U. Knickerbocker · Wappingers Falls, US
• Li-Wen Hung · Mahopac, US
• Bing Dang · Chappaqua, US
• Katsuyuki Sakuma · Fishkill, US
• Jeffrey D. Gelorme · Plainville, US
• Rajeev Narayanan · Briarcliff Manor, US
• Qianwen Chen · Yorktown Heights, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 13, 2019
• Grant date: Aug 17, 2021
• Expiry date: Jun 13, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G16H70/40
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A drug delivery form includes a drug and electronics. The electronics includes memory(ies) having drug delivery form information, including information about the drug and about at least part of a supply chain from manufacture of the drug delivery form to a current location in the supply chain. The electronics includes communication circuitry configured to read data from and write data to the drug delivery form information. An apparatus includes memory(ies) having computer readable code, and processor(s). The processor(s) cause the apparatus to perform operations including communicating with a drug delivery form including a drug and drug delivery form information, including information about the drug and about at least part of a supply chain from manufacture of the drug delivery form to a current location in the supply chain. The processor(s) cause the apparatus to perform reading data from or writing data into the drug and drug delivery form information.