ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,007, issued on July 7, was assigned to TOSHO INC. (Tokyo).

"Medicine dispensing apparatus" was invented by Yoshihito Omura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tablet dispensing apparatus in which the work of cleaning for tablet falling surfaces in an accumulating chute and a gathering chute of a lower tablet collecting mechanism can be easily and accurately carried out. The accumulating chute is forwardly drawn from a housing accompanied by a manual medicine dispensing device, and an accumulating chute support member is provided on a drawer mechanism, and the accumulating chute can be configured to attach and detach by a hunger on...