ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,568, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to I.M.A. INDUSTRIA MACCHINE AUTOMATICHE S.P.A. (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).
"Tablet dispensing apparatus and method" was invented by Marco Franci (Ozzano dell'Emilia, Italy) and Alessandro Masotti (Ozzano Dell'Emilia, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tablet dispensing apparatus for dispensing tablets into containers includes a cylindrical drum having an inner cavity and a cylindrical side wall provided with a row of seats adjacent to each other along a circumference arc, each seat for accommodating a respective tablet, and an ejection device to interact with the seats at angular ejection po...