US 7,387,208 B2
Medication dosage reminder and confirmation device, system, method, and product-by-process
Patricia Londino, 123 Colorado Ave., Watertown, N.Y. 13601 (US)
Filed on Oct. 26, 2005, as Appl. No. 11/163,648.
Prior Publication US 2006/0197336 A1, Sep. 07, 2006
Int. Cl. B24D 15/00 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 206—534  [206/459.1; 283/51; 283/900; 40/121; 116/308] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for tracking consumption of a medication which is taken N doses per day where N>1, for a plurality of days, comprising:
a top tab layer comprising a plurality of top layer day-dose tabs, each said top layer day-dose tab comprising a top layer day-day indicator designation and a top layer dose number designation;
a bottom tab layer comprising a plurality of bottom layer day-dose tabs, each said bottom layer day-dose tab comprising a bottom layer day-day indicator designation and a bottom layer dose number designation;
if N>2, N−2 intermediate tab layers between said top and bottom tab layers, comprising a plurality of intermediate layer day-dose tabs, each said intermediate layer day-dose tab comprising an intermediate layer day-day indicator designation and an intermediate layer dose number designation;
each of said top and bottom tab layers, and all of said intermediate layers, if any, comprising tearable perforation lines between said layer's day-day indicator designations, and said layer's dose number designations; and
said top layer day and day indicator designations adhered over said bottom layer day and day indicator designations, and if there are any said intermediate layers, via being adhered over the day but not day indicator designations of said intermediate layers;
wherein:
when a dose number designation portion of a tab of said top or bottom tab layers, or, if any, said intermediate layers, is pulled with a force sufficient to cause a tear along said perforation line, the pulled tab tears along said perforation line and the adhesion causes said day-day indicator designation of said pulled tab to remain adhered in place to the next-lower tab layer as a residue while the dose number designation of said pulled tab is torn away, said residue thereby indicating that said dose number for said day has been consumed and the remaining unpulled tabs indicating what doses still remain to be taken.