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

Claim 12:
13. A portal device for operating a pill-dispensing device, the portal device comprising:
a processor;
a communication module in communication with the processor; and
a memory in communication with the processor and comprising instructions which, when executed by the processor, program the processor to:
receive via a user interface an identifier or a size of the pills of a first type;
receive via the user interface a first schedule of delivery for the pills of the first type;
configure the communication module to transmit the identifier or the size of the pills of the first type and the first schedule to the pill-dispensing device; and
receive 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.