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Samsung patents clock icons that remind you to take medicine

Samsung describes a phone feature that puts medication icons directly on the clock screen. The device adjusts the timing of the reminder and shows a visual effect on the icon when it is time to take a dose.

Why it mattersThis could make it easier for people to track daily medications without opening a separate app or checking a list.

In the filing’s own words

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, memory, including one or more storage media, storing a medication intake schedule and instructions, and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to display a clock screen including an icon for at least one medication based on the medication intake schedule, identify a notification time for the intake of the at least one medication based on the medication intake schedule, identify an adjustment condition for a medication intake-related notification signal based on the identified notification time, adjust an output time point of the notification signal for the intake of the at least one medication, based on the identified adjustment condition of the medication intake-related notification signal, and display a visual effect corresponding to the icon included in the clock screen, based on the adjusted output time point.

What exactly they claim (claim 1)

1. An electronic device comprising: a display; memory, comprising one or more storage media, storing medication intake schedule information and instructions; and at least one processor communicatively coupled to the display and the memory, wherein the instructions, when executed by the at least one processor individually or collectively, cause the electronic device to: display a clock screen including an icon for at least one medication, based on the medication intake schedule information, identify a notification time for taking the at least one medication, based on the medication intake schedule information, identify an adjustment condition for a medication intake-related notification signal, based on the identified notification time, adjust an output timing of the medication intake-related notification signal for taking the at least one medication, based on the identified adjustment condition for the medication intake-related notification signal, and display a visual effect corresponding to the icon included in the clock screen, based on the adjusted output timing.

Facts

Company
Samsung (Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.)
Official title
ELECTRONIC DEVICE, AND METHOD FOR OUTPUTTING NOTIFICATION SIGNAL FOR MEDICATION INTAKE BY USING SAME
Publication number
US20260272785A1
Application number
19681697
Filed
May 19, 2026
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Inventors
2
Claims
20

Classified under

A61J 7/0481 Human necessitiesG04G 21/025 Physics & computingG06F 3/04817 Physics & computingG08B 21/24 Physics & computingG16H 20/10 Physics & computingA61J 2200/30 Human necessities
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