ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,583,645, issued on March 24, was assigned to Innovation Associates Inc (Johnson City, N.Y.).

"Medication container infeed loop system and apparatus" was invented by David Royce (Johnson City, N.Y.), Ryan Van Tassel (Johnson City, N.Y.), Nicholas Twining (Johnson City, N.Y.), Conner Sweeney (Johnson City, N.Y.) and Eric Shelley (Johnson City, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An infeed loop apparatus for verification and routing of pre-labeled medication containers is disclosed. The infeed loop apparatus includes a feed transport mechanism, a diverter transport mechanism, and an output transport mechanism. The infeed loop apparatus ver...