ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,292, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Medication support apparatus and medication support system" was invented by Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo), Hirotaka Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Akira Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Fujie (Kanagawa, Japan) and Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication support apparatus includes a storage, a medicine delivery part, an extraction device, a transfer device, a pack information reader, and processing circuitry. The storage stores a medicine pack with first medication-related information. The medicine pack is arranged at a specific position in the ...