US Patent 7719927 Medicine bottle and associated method

A medicine bottle for reminding a patient to take a dosage of medicine at a prescribed time includes a disposable bottle and a corresponding disposable cap. The system further includes a mechanism for recording and playing back instructions to take the medicine dosage at the prescribed time and an amplifier electrically coupled directly to the audio recording and playback device, and a transducer electrically coupled to the amplifier. A mechanism is further included for selectively unlocking the lock actuator from a locked position when a present time is within a predetermined number of hours of the prescribed time.