ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,312, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).
"System and method for compounding medication" was invented by George Mansour (Diamond Bar, Calif.), Christopher Zollinger (Chino Hills, Calif.), Jonathan Yeh (Brea, Calif.) and Neil Quitoviera (Murrieta, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication compounding system is described that is capable of receiving one or more medications and diluents and that includes an array of moveable transfer cartridges to access a medication container and to transfer medication. The transferred medication may be joined with a diluent to form a compounded medication. The r...