US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 8 for "System and method for vibration-based medication interaction recognition" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,816, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"System and method for vibration-based medication interaction recognition" was invented by Shijia Pan (Merced, Calif.), Yue Zhang (Merced, Calif.), Dong Yoon Lee (Merced, Calif.), Yihong Li (Merced, Calif.), Alyssa M. Weakley (Sacramento, Calif.) and Hao-Chuan Wang (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for monitoring medication intake uses vibration signals generated by a kinetic augmentation attachment. The attachment includes a base coupled to a medication container, a spring, and a weight, which produc...