Abstract: The following relates generally to administering and delivering medications to patients. In some embodiments, an in-home appliance may place an ingestible ingredient (e.g., an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) of a medication) on a physical substrate to create a distributable/retrievable object, which is distributed to a subject. The subject may then consume at least a portion of the ingestible ingredient, and then return at least a portion of the distributable/retrievable object to the appliance. The appliance, upon receiving the object, can subsequently trigger secondary actions, including logging the consumption of the dose: authorizing the next dose to override security measures which would otherwise block access to additional doses: analyzing the returned object for biometrics or remaining amount of ingestible ingredients, etc.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems for tracking patient medication protocol adherence, the system comprising a computing device for tracking the amount of an active pharmaceutical ingredient (Al) to be administered to the subject using an augmented utensil comprising a layered Al delivery structure formed. Also disclosed are methods of customizing drug delivery, and augmented utensils and methods of making the same.