US Patent Issued to ACCU-CHART PLUS HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS on Aug. 26 for "Pill feed apparatus for packaging machine" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,397,949, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to ACCU-CHART PLUS HEALTH CARE SYSTEMS INC. (St. Petersburg, Fla.).

"Pill feed apparatus for packaging machine" was invented by Richard W. Yisha (Medina, Ohio) and Kevin Paul Yeo (Ashland, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pill feed apparatus (30) is configured to be utilized in connection with a unit dose packaging machine (10) or other device. The exemplary apparatus includes a plurality of feeder discs (104, 150, 174) that include a plurality of pill engaging apertures (120, 152, 176) that are sized for holding pills of different respective pill configurations. The respective feeder discs a...