ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,640,247, issued on May 26, was assigned to MH Sub I LLC (El Segundo, Calif.).

"Automated refill order system and method thereof" was invented by Or Maoz (Dunwoody, Ga.), Rizwan Zia (Dunwoody, Ga.) and Joseph Jackson (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described for controlling operations of an automated refill system (AFS) to support automated communications with a plurality of interactive voice response (IVR) systems in fulfillment of a prescription order. Upon receiving a request message to refill a medicinal prescription order from a first IVR system, the AFS is configured to determine whether it is able to communicate ...