Patent ID: 11961599
Assignee: ALTO PHARMACY LLC
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 16:
17. A device for patient-specific secured medication dispensing, the device comprising:
a cavity configured to receive a medication cartridge comprising a programmable chip with an encrypted cartridge identifier and a patient identifier including medication parameters written onto the programmable chip;
a memory configured to store a decryption key for decrypting the cartridge identifier;
a first processor confirming use of the cartridge upon inserting the cartridge into the cavity by:
decrypting the cartridge identifier with the decryption key; and
verifying the patient identifier accessed using the decrypted cartridge identifier corresponds to a patient associated with the device;

a second processor determining a medication dose based on the medication parameters obtained from the cartridge; and
a display presenting a visual indication of the medication dose to be consumed by the patient;
wherein a hash algorithm is used to encrypt the cartridge identifier.