Patent ID: 11955235
Assignee: VIPUL MINOCHA
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  A | IPC A  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for operating a pill-dispensing device, the method comprising:
inputting via a user interface an identifier or a size of the pills of a first type;
inputting via the user interface a first schedule of delivery for the pills of the first type; and
receiving an indication that the pill-dispensing device is configured to dispense pills of the first type according to the first schedule, by controlling using a motor rotation of a rotatable disc relative to an enclosure disc enclosing a plurality of chambers, wherein:
the pills of the first type are placed within a first chamber of the plurality of chambers,
the rotatable disc comprises a single dispensing hole and the enclosure disc comprises a plurality of enclosure-disc holes, each enclosure-disc hole corresponding to a respective chamber of the plurality of chambers, and
the rotation of the rotatable disc is controlled such that area of an overlap between the dispensing hole and a first enclosure-disc hole of the plurality of enclosure-disc holes corresponds to the size of the pills of the first type.