CLINICAL AND/OR CONSUMER TECHNIQUES AND DEVICES

• US 20120041338A1
• Filed: 08/12/2011
• Published: 02/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 08/13/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Seventh Sense Biosystems, Inc.
• Inventors: Chickering, Donald E. III, Levinson, Douglas A., Davis, Shawn, Haghgooie, Ramin, Bernstein, Howard, Walt, David R.
• Application Number:
  US13/208,770
• Publication Number:
  US 20120041338A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/575
• 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. A method, comprising:

providing a device for application to the skin of a subject, the device able to deliver and/or receive fluid to or from the subject;

exposing the device to a scannable target; and

applying the device to the skin of a subject.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target is possessed by the subject.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target is attached to the subject.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target comprises an RFID tag.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target comprises a printed pattern.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target comprises a bar code.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target comprises a 1-dimensional bar code.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the scannable target comprises a 2-dimensional bar code.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the device comprises a substance transfer component for delivering and/or receiving fluid to or from the subject.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the substance transfer component comprises one or more microneedles.

11. A device for receiving a substance from the skin and/or from beneath the skin of a subject, and/or for delivering a substance to the skin and/or to a location beneath the skin of a subject, the device comprising:

a substance transfer component;

a scanner; and

an activator constructed and arranged to insert the substance transfer component into the skin of the subject after receiving a signal from the scanner.

12. The device of claim 11, wherein the scanner is able to detect radio waves.

13. The device of claim 11, wherein the scanner is an optical scanner.

14. The device of claim 11, wherein the scanner is able to detect sound waves.

15. The device of claim 11, wherein the substance transfer component comprises one or more microneedles.

16. A device for receiving a substance from the skin and/or from beneath the skin of a subject, and/or for delivering a substance to the skin and/or to a location beneath the skin of a subject, the device comprising:

a plurality of microneedles mounted on a rotatable structure; and

an activator constructed and arranged to insert one or more of the microneedles into the skin of the subject.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the rotatable structure can be removed from the device without tools or breakage.

18. A device for receiving a substance from the skin and/or from beneath the skin of a subject, and/or for delivering a substance to the skin and/or to a location beneath the skin of a subject, the device comprising:

one or more microneedles; and

a sleeve into which the microneedles can be withdrawn when the microneedles are not being used to deliver and/or receive fluid from the skin of a subject.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the sleeve can be moved by the device to expose the microneedles.

20. The device of claim 18, wherein the microneedles can be extended and/or retracted into the device.

21. The device of claim 18, wherein the sleeve is integrally formed within the device.

22. A device for receiving a substance from the skin and/or from beneath the skin of a subject, the device comprising:

a substance transfer component;

a storage chamber for receiving a fluid received from the subject, the storage chamber in fluid communication with the substance transfer component; and

a reservoir able to contain a fluid deliverable to the storage chamber.

23. The device of claim 22, wherein the substance transfer component comprises one or more microneedles.

24. The device of claim 22, wherein the fluid is a diluent.

25. The device of claim 22, wherein the fluid contains a buffer.

26. A device for receiving a substance from the skin and/or from beneath the skin of a subject, the device comprising:

a substance transfer component; and

a storage chamber for receiving a fluid received from the subject, the storage chamber in fluid communication with the substance transfer component, wherein the storage chamber contains a fluid.

27. The device of claim 26, wherein the fluid is a diluent.

28. The device of claim 26, wherein the fluid contains a buffer.

29. The device of claim 26, wherein the substance transfer component comprises one or more microneedles.