The company is still embroiled in the patent registration phase as of now, but when these cuffs will be manufactured and made available commercially, it would work to help a guard or they can be automatically programmed to start working when someone in the cuffs were to start acting up, or were to wander outside of specified boundaries. There are safety mechanisms set in place, however. Let’s just hope that these features will work. These safety features will prevent a guard from accidentally shocking or doping the prisoner to a point where they will suffer from severe side effects, such as death as an example.
As for the drugs itself, this could include a medication, an irritant, a transdermal medication, a sedative or a transdermal enhancer such as sulfoxide dimethyl, or a paralytic, a chemical restraint or a medication which is prescribed to the detainee. It could also include a combination of it all.
Should the cuffs make its way past the patent office and go into commercial production then it would be interesting to see what type of regulations and rules would come attached. From the relevant patent registration photos it would seem like the developers have already developed a prototype of these cuffs. This means that we might soon be seeing something similar available commercially far sooner than what we think.
Many people and organisations will probably have a problem with these cuffs as it would, according to them, probably infringe on the prisoner’s rights. It is difficult to predict the backlash these will have on the justice system from all corners of the community, but let’s just see if it makes it past the first hurdle of intellectual property rights registration and patent law review.