ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,718,346, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to EQUASHIELD MEDICAL LTD (Migdal Tefen, Israel).

"Pharmaceutical preparation methods and systems using imaging technologies" was invented by Eric Shem-Tov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel), Mordechay Rozenzon (Kiryat Bialik, Israel), Boaz Slav (Haifa, Israel), Osnat Perry (Harduf, Israel), Yizhaq Cooper (Kiryat Ata, Israel), Dor Shichman (Ness Ziona, Israel) and Jenia Gershtein (Karmiel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for determining presence of fluid or air in a non-opaque tube in a pharmaceutical preparation device. The system includes a processing circuitry (PC)....