Method of making a pharmacy compounding system

• US 9,693,932 B2
• Filed: 09/20/2015
• Issued: 07/04/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Tailorpill Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Tailorpill Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Alfano, Kenneth Mimnaugh
• Primary Examiner(s): Maust, Timothy L
• Application Number:
  US14/859,325
• Publication Number:
  US 20160042149A1
• Time in Patent Office: 653 Days
• Field of Search: 141 1, 141 2, 141 83, 141100-105, 141244-247, 424451
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 1/00 Containers specially adapted for medical or pharmaceutical purposes capsules or the like for oral use A61J3/07; specially adapted for surgical or diagnostic appliances or instruments A61B50/30; containers for radioactive substances G21F5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/06 into the form of pills, lozenges or dragees
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/07 into the form of capsules or similar small containers for oral use
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/074 Filling capsules; Related operations
• CPC Class Codes: A61K 9/0087 Galenical forms not covered by A61K9/02 - A61K9/7023
• CPC Class Codes: B65B 1/34 Adjusting weight by trickle feed
• CPC Class Codes: G05D 11/134 by sensing the weight of the individual components
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers

Abstract

A method of making a pharmaceutical compounding system having automated micro-dosing capability, the method comprising identifying a technology that can facilitate controlled and automated dispensation of material, such that the dispensation does not necessitate augmentation of material by mass or volume to aid with measurement or manipulation in order to achieve a level of dispensing precision that can be medically acceptable for at least some drug substances; and adapting the technology for prescription-specific operability for producing customized drug products, the adapting comprising configuring the technology for production of pills in prescribed numbers with prescribed drugs at prescribed doses via distinct runs for respective patients.

Claims

1. A method of making a pharmaceutical compounding system having automated micro-dosing capability including capability for dispensing active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) without requiring excipient, the method comprising:

identifying a technology that can facilitate controlled and automated dispensation of solid material, such that said dispensation does not necessitate augmentation of material by mass or volume to aid with measurement or manipulation in order to achieve a level of dispensing precision that can be medically acceptable for at least some drug substances, with said dispensation being actuated by mechanical waves or channeled pins; and

adapting said technology for prescription-specific operability in making a system for producing customized drug products, the adapting comprising;

configuring said technology for production of pills in prescribed numbers with prescribed drugs at prescribed doses via distinct runs for respective patients, providing API-only micro-dosing capability for custom compounding with said drug substances; and

incorporating with the system a user interface configured to receive said prescribed doses of said prescribed drugs, for said production of pills in prescribed numbers in said distinct runs for respective patients.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein said customized drug products each comprise multiple drug substances, so that said pills are polypills.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the technology utilizes gravimetric measurement in dispensing material.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the configuring includes allowing medications to be housed in respective reversibly-attachable containers from which to be dispensed by said technology.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising implementing the system in compounding for hospitals or long-term care facilities.