CLINICAL AND/OR CONSUMER TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES

• US 20170120022A1
• Filed: 08/09/2016
• Published: 05/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc.
• Inventors: Levinson, Douglas A., Davis, Shawn, Haghgooie, Ramin, Bernstein, Howard, Walt, David R., Chickering, III, Donald E.
• Application Number:
  US15/231,881
• Publication Number:
  US 20170120022A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0412 Low-profile patch shaped housings
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14514 using means for aiding extraction of interstitial fluid, e.g. microneedles or suction
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/150984 Microneedles or microblades
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/415 the glands, e.g. tonsils, adenoids or thymus
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/417 the bone marrow
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/418 lymph vessels, ducts or nodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/96 using barcodes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 90/98 using electromagnetic means, e.g. transponders
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2037/0023 Drug applicators using microneedles
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2037/0061 Methods for using microneedles
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/3576 with non implanted data transmission devices, e.g. using external transmitter or receiver
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6009 for matching patient with his treatment, e.g. to improve transfusion security
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 2205/6072 Bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/00 Other apparatus for introducing media into the body for reproduction or fertilisation A61B17/425; apparatus for iontophoresis or cataphoresis A61N1/30; Percutany, i.e. introducing medicines into the body by diffusion through the skin salt baths A61H33/04
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 37/0015 by using microneedles
• CPC Class Codes: A61M 5/14248 of the skin patch type
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/30 Apparatus for iontophoresis, i.e. transfer of media in ionic state by an electromotoric force into the body, or cataphoresis
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/325 for iontophoresis, i.e. transfer of media in ionic state by an electromotoric force into the body electrodes for external use A61N1/0428

Abstract

The present invention generally relates to systems and methods for delivering and/or receiving a substance or substances such as blood, from subjects, e.g., from the skin and/or from other tissues of the body. In some cases, the device may contain a substance transfer component such as needles or microneedles, which can be inserted into the skin or another organ to deliver and/or receiving fluid or other substances from the subject. In some embodiments, the device may include an activator constructed and arranged to insert one or more substance transfer components into the skin or other organ. In certain cases, the device may also include a storage chamber for receiving a fluid received from the subject.

Claims

1-29. -29. (canceled)

30. A method, comprising:

providing a device for application to the skin of a subject, the device comprising a scannable target and a substance transfer component;

scanning the scannable target with a scanner; and

inserting the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after the device receives a signal from scanner.

31. The method of claim 30, wherein the scannable target comprises an RFID tag.

32. The method of claim 30, wherein the scannable target comprises a printed pattern.

33. The method of claim 30, wherein the scannable target comprises a bar code.

34. The method of claim 30, wherein the substance transfer component comprises one or more microneedles.

35. The method of claim 30, wherein the signal comprises radio waves.

36. The method of claim 30, wherein scanning the scannable target with a scanner comprises scanning the scannable target for radio waves.

37. The method of claim 30, wherein the signal indicates that the subject is the correct subject.

38. The method of claim 30, wherein the device automatically inserts the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after the device receives a signal from scanner.

39. The method of claim 30, comprising manually inserting the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after the device receives a signal from scanner.

40. A method, comprising:

providing a device for application to the skin of a subject, the device comprising a first scannable target and a substance transfer component;

providing a subject with a second scannable target;

scanning the first and second scannable targets with a scanner; and

inserting the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after the device receives a signal from scanner.

41. The method of claim 40, wherein the first scannable target comprises an RFID tag.

42. The method of claim 40, wherein the first scannable target comprises a printed pattern.

43. The method of claim 40, wherein the substance transfer component comprises one or more microneedles.

44. The method of claim 40, wherein the signal comprises radio waves.

45. The method of claim 40, wherein the second scannable target comprises a printed pattern.

46. The method of claim 40, wherein the second scannable target comprises a bar code.

47. The method of claim 40, wherein the signal indicates that the subject is the correct subject.

48. The method of claim 40, wherein the device automatically inserts the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after the device receives a signal from scanner.

49. The method of claim 40, comprising manually inserting the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after the device receives a signal from scanner.