US Patent Issued to Ricoh on Oct. 20 for "Medication assistance device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,075, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Medication assistance device" was invented by Youhei Niitsuma (Kanagawa, Japan), Hirotaka Hayashi (Aichi, Japan), Terumitsu Azuma (Gifu, Japan), Yu Yamaya (Gifu, Japan), Yoshihide Sugiyama (Gifu, Japan), Hiroshi Fujie (Aichi, Japan), Manabu Yamanaka (Aichi, Japan), Akira Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takato Mochizuki (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication assistance device includes a storing member, medicine dispenser, discharge/transport mechanism, pack information reader, pack information management system (PIMS), storing detector, and controller....