ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,099, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to ALGOCARE Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Tablet dispenser" was invented by Ji Won Joung (Seoul, South Korea) and Pil Lip Youn (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a tablet dispenser. The tablet dispenser includes: an accommodation part provided with a plurality of cartridge accommodation compartments into which tablet cartridge assemblies configured to accommodate tablets therein and discharge the tablets and each provided with a discharge unit and a cartridge identification unit are inserted and mounted; a plurality of mounting detection units located ...