Patent ID: 11870508
Assignee: OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL CO., LTD.
Field: Telecommunications (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H  A  G | IPC A  G  H

Claim 0:
1. A method for testing an ingestible device using an external probing apparatus, the ingestible device comprising a substrate having a control unit and a memory, and first and second materials physically associate with the substrate, the external probing apparatus comprising first and second probing plates, the method comprising:
powering the first and second probing plates;
capacitively coupling the first probing plate to the first material of the ingestible device;
capacitively coupling the second probing plate to the second material of the ingestible device;
energizing the ingestible device by transferring energy from the first and second probing plates to the corresponding first and second materials;
receiving information stored in the memory of the ingestible device encoded by the control unit, through the first and second probing plates; and
validating a functionality of the ingestible device.