ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,156, issued on May 27, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Enhanced platen for pharmaceutical compounding" was invented by Christian Sandmann (Wayne, N.J.) and Erik Kurt Witt (Oakland, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for preparing and administering a prescribed fluidic pharmaceutical compound, such as a chemotherapy compound, includes a scale having a platen. The scale is in communication with a user display for displaying an output of the scale. An image capture device having a field of view for capturing at least one image of an object placed on the platen is provided in communication with...