ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,572, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).
"Pharmaceutical order processing systems and methods" was invented by Robert E. Hoffman (Linden, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmaceutical order processing system for filling prescription orders in dose-based packaging includes a pathway and a plurality of individual dispensing pharmaceutical ("IDP") dispensers. The IDP dispenser dispenses pharmaceuticals one at a time and is movable along the pathway. A dose-based packager is positioned adjacent the pathway. The dose-based packager receives pharmaceuticals from one or more of t...