ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,166, issued on April 14, was assigned to OneSource Solutions International Inc. (Sudbury, Mass.).

"Pharmacy surveillance and intervention system for monitoring, detecting and preventing narcotic abuse" was invented by Harold Arkoff (Sudbury, Mass.) and Vedran Jukic (Trieste, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for pharmacy-level surveillance of all prescription behaviors using one or more artificial intelligence (AI) agents integrated with real-time prescription records, refill timelines, prescriber data, patient histories, PDMP registries, and epidemiological signals. The system evaluates these inputs with conf...