ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,408, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YUYAMA MFG. Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Drug imaging device and drug packaging device" was invented by Naoki Koike (Osaka, Japan), Masao Fukada (Osaka, Japan), Ryosuke Fukamori (Osaka, Japan) and Thanhxuan Huynh (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug packaging device includes a drug accommodating/dispensing unit that supplies various types of drugs, a drug packaging portion in which a drug supplied from the drug accommodating/dispensing unit is packaged in a packaging sheet, a drug packaging introducing member that drops the drug to be packaged into the packaging sheet in the drug pa...