Bioabsorbable Adjunct Sensor Monitoring Environmental Exposure

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing drug delivery adjuncts are susceptible to environmental factors that can reduce the effectiveness of medicants and cause them to degrade prematurely, leading to potential ineffectiveness when implanted in a patient's body.

Innovation Solution

A surgical system that includes a bioabsorbable adjunct with a sensor to monitor exposure conditions such as temperature, humidity, and light, which communicates data to a processor to determine the viability of the drug and provide warnings if adverse conditions are detected, ensuring the drug's effectiveness and safety before implantation.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of operation

If the adjunct is made absorbable to allow automatic dissolution and medicant release, then the need for additional surgery to remove the adjunct is eliminated, but the adjunct becomes susceptible to environmental factors that can cause premature degradation and reduce medicant effectiveness

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveelimination of additional surgery for adjunct removalVSAvoidmaintainment of medicant effectiveness until implantation

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of operationVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies preliminary action by monitoring exposure conditions (temperature, humidity, light) during storage and transport before the adjunct is implanted. Sensors track these conditions and alert authorities if thresholds are exceeded, allowing preventive measures to be taken before the adjunct degrades, thus ensuring reliability while maintaining the absorbable nature of the adjunct

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback through sensors that continuously monitor environmental exposure conditions of the adjunct and transmit data to a remote server. This feedback loop allows real-time assessment of whether the adjunct has been exposed to conditions that would compromise medicant effectiveness, enabling timely intervention while preserving the adjunct's absorbable characteristics

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

2Reliability

If sensors and monitoring systems are added to track exposure conditions, then the viability and effectiveness of the drug can be ensured, but the complexity of the surgical system increases

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveensurance of drug viability and effectivenessVSAvoidcomplexity of surgical system with sensors and monitoring

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent applies universality by designing a multi-functional system where the same sensor platform monitors multiple exposure conditions (temperature, humidity, light) simultaneously. The adjunct packaging integrates both the medical function (drug delivery) and the monitoring function (exposure tracking) into a unified system, reducing overall complexity while ensuring drug viability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements self-service through an automated monitoring system where sensors continuously track exposure conditions and automatically transmit alerts to authorities when thresholds are exceeded. This eliminates the need for manual monitoring and reduces the complexity of human intervention, while maintaining high reliability in ensuring drug effectiveness

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

Data Source

PatentUS11607216B2Adaptive responses from smart packaging of drug delivery absorbable adjuncts

Publication Date: 2023.03.21 JANSSEN PHARMACEUTICALS INC

AI summary

In general, adaptive responses from smart packaging of drug delivery absorbable adjuncts and methods of using smart packaging of drug delivery absorbable adjuncts are provided.