Patent ID: 8747390
Filing Date: 2014-06-10
Classification: A61K,A61M

Abstract:
1. An implantable drug delivery device, comprising: an implantable housing configured for implantation into a body; a reservoir within the implantable housing; a fluid transfer device within the implantable housing in fluidic communication with the reservoir; and a controller, carried within the implantable housing, that stores a stored delivery profile including one or more delivery times and one or more delivery rates for the one or more delivery times, controls the fluid transfer device to deliver fluid in accordance with the stored delivery profile, receives modification data that is representative of a reduction rate, and repeatedly reduces all of the one or more delivery rates in the stored delivery profile to iteratively produce and store a plurality of modified delivery profiles which, in a first reduction, have all of the one or more delivery rates in the stored delivery profile reduced in response to a single receipt of modification data and, in each subsequent iterative reduction, have all of the one or more delivery rates in the preceding stored modified delivery profile reduced in response to the single receipt of modification data.