US Patent Issued to PARATA SYSTEMS on Aug. 25 for "Devices for capping vials useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,632, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to PARATA SYSTEMS LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Devices for capping vials useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions" was invented by Weldon Curl Jr. (Garner, N.C.) and Joe Cross (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for securing a cap on a cylindrical container includes: a stage including a receiving region for separately receiving a cap and a container; and an elevator movable upwardly away from the stage and downwardly toward the stage. The elevator includes: a carrier disposed over the stage; a capturing member on the carrier and configured to capture the cap; and at ...