ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,830, issued on Aug. 12.
"Medical adherence system and method" was invented by James Joyce (Needham, Mass.), Kieran Daly (Dublin) and Richard Shattock (Dublin).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a smartphone, a connected sharps container, the connected sharps container communicatively linked to the smartphone, and a web server, the web server communicatively linked to the smartphone and to the connected sharps container."
The patent was filed on June 26, 2019, under Application No. 17/056,939.
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