ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,411, issued on March 11.
"Prescription dispensing system" was invented by Neil S. Davey (Gaithersburg, Md.), Brendan Boyce Murphy (Bala Cynwyd, Pa.), Sonya R. Davey (Gaithersburg, Md.) and Haris Godil (Boyds, Md.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmacy automation system having a robot having a hardware device and a software for internal mapping to perform simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is disclosed herein. The robot is configured to use the SLAM technique to carry out at least the following different interactions: the robot communicates autonomously with a physician or an assistant directly or via an intermediary; th...