US Patent Issued to Innovation Associates on July 14 for "Routing of totes and bottles within a pharmacy conveyor system" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,679,663, issued on July 14, was assigned to Innovation Associates Inc. (Johnson City, N.Y.).

"Routing of totes and bottles within a pharmacy conveyor system" was invented by Fletcher A. Chapin Jr. (Maine, N.Y.) and Todd Bower (Johnson City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system, method, and apparatus for the routing of totes and bottles within a pharmacy fulfillment center are disclosed. The system, method, and apparatus are configured to transmit routing tables from an application server to station controllers (e.g., PLCs) to enable each station to locally make a routing decision. Since the routing logic is locally stored at each...