US Patent Issued to HITACHI CHANNEL SOLUTIONS on April 21 for "Drug inspection apparatus and drug inspection method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,786, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI CHANNEL SOLUTIONS CORP. (Tokyo).

"Drug inspection apparatus and drug inspection method" was invented by Daisuke Hosokawa (Tokyo), Riichi Katou (Tokyo), Makoto Katsuchi (Tokyo), Eiji Makimoto (Tokyo) and Yoshiki Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug inspection apparatus includes an inspection processing portion for collating a photographed image of each drug with drug master data for a dispensed drug group; and determines a normal result when the photographed image is contained in the drug group, as an uncertain result when it is uncertain if the photographed image is a ...