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

Claim 0:
1. A method for administering drug therapy to a user through a wearable medical device in contact with a user's body, the method comprising:
providing a microcontroller electrically coupled to a pump mechanism, a transceiver capacitively coupled to a skin surface of the user, and a power supply system;
configuring the microcontroller to command the pump mechanism to administer a drug to the user;
harvesting energy from the user's body;
configuring the power supply system to selectively provide the harvested energy to the microcontroller, pump mechanism and transceiver;
communicating 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 via the transceiver by oscillating an electrical potential of an electrode in contact with the skin surface of the user and thereby inducing a displacement current in the user's body, wherein said host device monitors or controls the medical device and transmits data for at least controlling the administering of the drug to the user; and
receiving at the medical device said data transmitted via the personal area network from the host device and controlling the pump mechanism to administer the drug to the user.