ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,723, issued on June 17.
"Access counting lid for a prescription pill bottle" was invented by Felix Mawuli Anyomi (Tulsa, Okla.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lid counts a number of patient accesses to a pill bottle. The lid has an actuator, a main housing containing the actuator and an access counter responsive to the actuator. The actuator stores energy in response to axial force manually applied to mount the lid on the bottle and releases the stored energy in response to counter-axial force manually applied to remove the lid from the bottle. Each release of energy causes the access counter to advance one interval, indicating an a...