US Patent Issued to PARATA SYSTEMS on March 31 for "Devices for capping vials useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,981, issued on March 31, was assigned to PARATA SYSTEMS LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"Devices for capping vials useful in system and method for dispensing prescriptions" was invented by Jake R. Smith (Durham, N.C.), Mark Goodman (Durham, N.C.), Michael Lee McCord (Durham, N.C.), Sam Beeler (Durham, N.C.) and Andrew Scott Mandeville (Durham, 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 for separately receiving a cap and a container; an elevator movable upwardly away from the stage and downwardly toward the stage; and a cap holding assembly mounted on the elevator. The cap hol...