ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,662,333, issued on June 23, was assigned to Syntegon Technology GmbH (Waiblingen, Germany).

"Device for removing individual pharmaceutical vessels from a trough-shaped transport container, a system comprising a corresponding device, and a method for removing individual pharmaceutical vessels from a trough-shaped transport container" was invented by Jurgen Leidig (Frankenhardt, Germany), Florian Weber (Crailsheim, Germany) and Margarita Jungblut (Satteldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (13) for removing individual pharmaceutical vessels (2) from a trough-shaped transport container (1), a system (40) having a correspond...