ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,604, issued on March 4.

"Medication magazines and intelligent medication management systems" was invented by Lloyd Cleveland Nurse (Decatur, Ga.) and Darien Okinza Nurse (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medication magazines including one or more compartments that hold respective sleeves of medication, as well as a respective blister card, are provided. The blister card(s) include blisters of medication, and the blister sleeve(s) include openings designed to align with the blisters of the blister card(s). The removal of medication from each blister may be automatically detected and digitally recorded, along with the time...