US Patent Issued to McKesson on May 19 for "Advanced prediction of shipping attributes of a package in a dispensing pharmacy" (Texas, Colorado, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,820, issued on May 19, was assigned to McKesson Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Advanced prediction of shipping attributes of a package in a dispensing pharmacy" was invented by Scott Martin (Mead, Colo.), Juston Oakes (San Angelo, Texas) and Hommy Lopez (Plainfield, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technologies are provided for advanced prediction of shipping attributes of a package in a dispensing pharmacy. In some embodiments, a computing system can receive prescription data identifying one or more amounts of respective medications, and can generate, using the prescription data, an estimate of weight of a package containing the one or m...