US Patent Issued to VMI HOLLAND on Dec. 16 for "Method, feeder unit and dispensing system for dispensing discrete medicaments" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,497,240, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to VMI HOLLAND B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Method, feeder unit and dispensing system for dispensing discrete medicaments" was invented by Aalf Wijnia (Epe, Netherlands), Hendrik Leendert 't Lam (Epe, Netherlands), Patrick Van Voorn (Epe, Netherlands) and Rogier Scheide (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for step dispensing discrete medicaments from a feeder unit, wherein the feeder unit comprises a container holding said medicaments, and a dispensing mechanism, wherein the dispensing mechanism comprises a singulating body with a plurality of singulatio...