Abstract: A pill dispensing assembly comprises a pill bottle that is securely locked between a base and an attachable sleeve. The pill bottle and base form an enclosure in which pills are stored above a top portion of a dosing mechanism of the base. The top portion of the dosing mechanism comprises a ramp and a rotating arm that carries a pill from a base of the ramp to a position in which the pill will drop through an aperture in a bottom portion of the dosing mechanism into a channel that connects the aperture to a dispensing slot in a housing of the base. The base includes a microcontroller that interacts with a servomotor to control rotation of the arm and thereby the dispensing of a pill. The base also includes a wireless communication interface that enables the dispensing of the pill to be controlled by a remote entity.

Abstract: A pill dispensing system comprises a pill dispensing assembly and an application executing on a device. The pill dispensing assembly includes an enclosure that stores one or more pills, a dosing mechanism, a wireless communication interface, and a microcontroller that is connected to the dosing mechanism and the wireless communication interface, the microcontroller being configured to activate the dosing mechanism to dispense a pill from the enclosure in response to the receipt of a control signal via the wireless communication interface. The application is configured to send the control signal to the microcontroller via the wireless communication interface in response to an interaction therewith by a user. Pill dispensing event data may be collected by the application and stored in a remote backend database and uploaded at a user's discretion to a physician and/or pharmacists electronic health record (EHR)/EMR system.

Abstract: A pill dispensing assembly comprises a pill bottle that is securely locked between a base and an attachable sleeve. The pill bottle and base form an enclosure in which pills are stored above a top portion of a dosing mechanism of the base. The top portion of the dosing mechanism comprises a ramp and a rotating arm that carries a pill from a base of the ramp to a position in which the pill will drop through an aperture in a bottom portion of the dosing mechanism into a channel that connects the aperture to a dispensing slot in a housing of the base. The base includes a microcontroller that interacts with a servomotor to control rotation of the arm and thereby the dispensing of a pill. The base also includes a wireless communication interface that enables the dispensing of the pill to be controlled by a remote entity.