ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,776,402, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).

"System and method for dispensing medication" was invented by Scott Loebig (San Diego), Cynthia Yamaga (San Diego) and Abhikesh Nag (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting diversion may include receiving, from a dispensing cabinet including medication, data associated with a plurality of individuals accessing the dispensing cabinet to retrieve and/or return the medication. Diversion of the medication may be detected by at least applying, to at least a portion of the data received from the dispensing cabinet, a machine learning model trai...