3D Medication Printing via IoT Data and Medical Records

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current 3D printing technology for medications lacks the capability to consider comprehensive user data, resulting in non-customized medication designs that do not account for individual user-specific needs and physiological states.

Innovation Solution

A system that utilizes IoT sensors to collect current user data and access medical records, integrating this information with AI to determine an optimal medication design for 3D printing, including dosage, layer thickness, and release timing of medications based on user-specific parameters.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If 3D printing technology is used to consolidate multiple medicines into a single medication, then manufacturing efficiency and patient compliance are improved, but the medication design fails to account for individual user-specific needs and physiological states

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvemanufacturing efficiencyVSAvoidcustomization capability
Core Design Contradiction:
ProductivityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary data collection through IoT sensors and retrieval of medical records before medication manufacturing. This advance preparation of user-specific data enables the customization of medication designs while maintaining efficient 3D printing production, resolving the contradiction between manufacturing efficiency and customization capability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The medication design is made dynamic and adjustable based on real-time user data from IoT sensors and historical medical records. The system can modify dosage, release timing, and medication composition dynamically according to individual user needs, enabling both efficient production and high adaptability

Inventive Principle:
Principle #15Dynamics

2Reliability

If comprehensive user data including current physiological states and medical records is collected and analyzed, then medication customization and treatment effectiveness are improved, but system complexity and data processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvetreatment effectivenessVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system integrates multiple functions into a unified platform: IoT sensor data collection, medical record retrieval, AI-based data analysis, and 3D printing control. This multi-functional integration manages system complexity while enabling comprehensive data processing for improved treatment effectiveness

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

An AI-based processing system acts as an intermediary between the collected user data and the medication manufacturing process. This intermediary layer analyzes and interprets complex physiological data and medical records, transforming them into actionable manufacturing parameters without requiring direct complex interactions between all system components

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

Data Source

PatentUS11724486B2Printing customized medication based on current user data and medical records of the user
Publication Date: 2023.08.15 KYNDRYL INC
  • US11724486B2 patent drawing
  • US11724486B2 patent drawing
  • US11724486B2 patent drawing

AI summary

A computer-implemented method for printing customized 3D medication based on the current user data and one or more medical records of the user. The method obtains current user data via one or more user IoT sensors and accesses one or more medical records of the user. The method further determines a medication design based on the obtained current user data and the accessed one or more medical records of the user and prints a 3D medication based on the determined medication design.