ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,486,060, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to CAREFUSION GERMANY 326 GMBH (Kelberg, Germany).

"Filling station and method for filling a transport tray" was invented by Christoph Hellenbrand (Kaifenheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Filling stations are provided that include a transfer tray having filling receptacles and a closing device arranged under the filling receptacles to open and close bottom openings in the filling receptacles, an optical detection device to generate images of filling receptacles having drug portions arranged therein, and a control device coupled to the optical detection device. The control device causes di...