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Medication clock

  • US 4,831,562 A
  • Filed: 05/01/1987
  • Issued: 05/16/1989
  • Est. Priority Date: 02/19/1985
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A medication clock comprising:

  • (a) a plurality of compartments with each compartment being separately usable for holding one or more medications to be taken by a person, the medication being chosen from prescription medications which have individual dosages to be taken at specific times, prescription medications to be taken under the control of the person on an as needed basis and nonprescription medications to be taken under the control of the person;

    (b) a programmable timing means which produces a medication dispensing signal indicating the time that a person is to take one or more medications to be taken at specific times;

    (c) means, responsive to the medication dispensing signal produced by the programmable timing means, for producing an alarm for alerting the person that it is time to take a medications located within one of the compartments;

    (d) means which are separately activated by the person for producing an acknowledgment signal that any one of the medications stored in one of the compartments has been taken including medications taken by the person in response to an alarm and medications taken without an alarm;

    (e) a memory, coupled to the programmable timing means, and having a plurality of separate storage locations, each separate storage location being used for storing the time of occurrence of at least one of the acknowledgment signals produced by one of the means for producing an acknowledgment signal and an identification of the medication taken from one of the compartments; and

    (f) means, coupled to the memory for providing an output of the identification of the medication, and time of each dosage of medication taken by the person which is stored in the separate locations of the memory for each of the medications being taken by the person including those medications taken under the control of the programmable timing means in response to an alarm as well as medications taken by the person without an alarm.

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