ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,212, issued on March 25.
"Smart vial interactive medication dosage dispensing system and method" was invented by Laila Velani (Sugar Land, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication dispensing system is disclosed, having an interactive vial having a controllable lock for containing medications prescribed for a patient; a processor contained in the vial; a computer program stored in a computer readable medium the computer program comprising instructions for execution by the processor, the computer program comprising: instructions to read patient data for the patient from a data base stored in the computer readable medium; inst...