Patent ID: 11951280
Assignee: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC A  H | IPC A  H

Claim 8:
9. A wearable medical device in contact with a user's body for administering drug therapy to the user, the medical device comprising:
a microcontroller electrically coupled to a pump mechanism and a transceiver capacitively coupled to a skin surface of the user, wherein: the microcontroller commands the pump mechanism to administer a drug to the user; and the transceiver communicates with a host device on or near the user's body via a personal area network that transmits data across the capacitively coupled skin surface of the user, wherein the transceiver is adapted to communicate with the host device by oscillating an electrical potential of an electrode in contact with the skin surface of the user and thereby induce a displacement current in the user's body, wherein said host device monitors or controls the medical device.