Patent ID: 6973371

Claim:
A unit dose medication compliance monitoring and reporting device, comprising: a dispenser shell with a dispensing face and defining a plurality of unit dose containers, each container defining an opening through the dispensing face; a retainer sheet configured to be confrontingly affixed to the dispensing face to seal each container opening and to burst proximate to each opening as the unit dose is dispensed through the respective openings of the containers; a sensor network arranged about the retainer sheet to have a plurality of frangible electrical container integrity signal paths, each path being positioned to substantially extend across a respective opening when the retainer sheet is affixed; a monitoring and reporting circuit in electrical communication with timer and memory circuits, which are configured to record a time signal at each instance when a one of the frangible signal paths is interrupted as the unit dose is dispensed, the monitoring and reporting circuit being further adapted to compute and record an average time interval signal of the recorded time signals; and a data display device in electronic communication with the monitoring and reporting circuit and configured to communicate data that includes the average time interval signal of the recorded time signals.