US Patent Issued to Ricoh on June 2 for "Medication support device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,750, issued on June 2, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Medication support device" was invented by Youhei Niitsuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotaka Hayashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Hiroshi Fujie (Kanagawa, Japan), Manabu Yamanaka (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yu Yamaya (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication support device includes a container to store a plurality of medicine packs, a medicine dispenser in which a specific one of the plurality of medicine packs is arranged to a prescribed position, a pickup device to pick up a specific one of the plurality of medicine packs from the container, a conveyor to convey the specif...