Medicine container for indicating patient information

• US 5,846,089 A
• Filed: 03/07/1996
• Issued: 12/08/1998
• Est. Priority Date: 07/01/1993
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Howard L. Terriss, Richard C. Weiss
• Original Assignee: Howard L. Terriss, Richard C. Weiss
• Inventors: Terriss, Howard L., Weiss, Richard C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Hafer, Robert A.
• Assistant Examiner(s): ROVNAK, JOHN EDMUND
• Application Number:
  US08/612,386
• Time in Patent Office: 1,006 Days
• Field of Search: 434/319, 434/365, 340/692
• US Class Current: 434/365
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 25/00 Models for purposes not provided for in G09B23/00, e.g. full-sized devices for demonstration purposes model vehicles, tracks therefor, models in the nature of toys A63H
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/04 with audible presentation of the material to be studied sound recording or reproducing G11B

Abstract

A medicine container providing audible dosage instructions in a voice recognizable to the user, so that a user, even with a sight or like disability, can rely on voice recognition as providing verification of the accuracy and particular appropriateness of the dosage instructions to the user of the medicine container.

Claims

1. A method of instructing a patient in the use of a medicine of a type that is prescribed to be taken in selected doses at selected intervals and is toxic if taken otherwise than as prescribed, said instruction method comprising the steps of storing said medicine in a container for convenient access thereto by a user, selecting a voice for recording dosage instructions that is recognizable to said user to a voice that is confined to the voice of the user, the voice of an individual with whom the user has had prior oral communication, and the voice of an individual with whom the user has a doctor-patient relationship, prerecording in said selected voice on a sound-recording means disposed on said container preselected dosage instructions for the ingesting of said stored medicine, and causing the operation of said sound-recording means incident to producing a play back of said dosage instructions in said prerecorded voice selected to be recognizable to the user, whereby said voice recognition contributes to verification that the dosage instructions for said medicine is as prescribed.