IP Library Granted Patent US 8,037,628
Granted Patent B2
US 8,037,628 · App. 12/429,216 · Granted Oct 18, 2011

Medicine dosing compliance system

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Patent No.
US 8,037,628
App. No.
12/429,216
Granted
Oct 18, 2011
Kind
B2
Abstract

An article and method for recording dosing compliance is provided having compliance recordation indicia printed on a compliance recordation article and a mechanism for attaching the article to a container.

Claims (6)

1. A device to mark the taking of medication to ensure that medication is taken appropriately, without missed doses or overdoses, said device incorporated into a label, said label being affixed substantially about the circumference of a medication bottle, said label further including a tab, said tab having a first portion and a second portion, said first portion and said second portion being each of a first length and separated by a fold line, wherein said first portion may be folded atop said second portion, and further said first portion having a first side and a second side, wherein said first portion first side includes indicia which when filled by a mark designates medication use, such that the patient upon taking the medication places said mark on the appropriate area on said indicia which indicates that the medication has been taken and said first portion second side also includes indicia designed to indicate medication use, said medication use indicated by the patient marking an appropriate area on said indicia therefore indicating that the medication has been taken.

2. A device to mark the taking of medication to ensure that medication is taken appropriately, without missed doses or overdoses, said device incorporated into a label, said label being affixed substantially about the circumference of a medication bottle, said label further including a tab, said tab having a first portion and a second portion, said first portion and said second portion being each of a first length and separated by a fold line, wherein said first portion may be folded atop said second portion, and further said first portion having a first side and a second side, wherein said first portion first side includes indicia which when filled by a mark designates medication use, such that the patient upon taking the medication places said mark on the appropriate area on said indicia which indicates that the medication has been taken;

wherein said second portion further includes a first side and a second side, said second portion first side includes indicia representing a calendar, said calendar including indicia indicating a number of days equal to an amount of medication present in said medication bottle, said number of days further broken down in to portions of days, whereby the patient may mark sequentially on said calendar indicia in order to indicate that the medication has been taken at the appropriate said portion of the day; and

wherein said tab may be folded and unfolded as it is marked and said tab provided with an adhesive with low tackiness to permit said tab when folded to be adhesively placed about an area about said circumference of said medication bottle.

3. A device to mark the taking of medication to ensure that medication is taken appropriately, without missed doses or overdoses, said device incorporated into a label, said label being affixed substantially about the circumference of a medication bottle, said label further including a tab, said tab having a first portion and a second portion, said first portion and said second portion being each of a first length and separated by a fold line, wherein said first portion may be folded atop said second portion, and further said first portion having a first side and a second side, wherein said first portion first side includes indicia which when filled by a mark designates medication use, such that the patient upon taking the medication places said mark on the appropriate area on said indicia which indicates that the medication has been taken;

wherein said tab may be folded and unfolded as it is marked and said tab provided with an adhesive with low tackiness to permit said tab when folded to be adhesively placed about an area about said circumference of said medication bottle.

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 10, 2019
From: J M SMITH CORPORATION
To: SCRIPTCHEK VISUAL VERIFICATION SYSTEMS, INC.
Reel/Frame 051233/0867 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Sep 14, 2012
From: KAUFMAN, STACY R.
To: J M SMITH CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 028967/0666 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 61047461 · Apr 24, 2008
Related Publication 20090265967A1 · Oct 29, 2009