ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,365,502, issued on July 22, was assigned to CareFusion Germany 326 GmbH (Kelberg, Germany).
"Storage container for automated dispensing of individual medicament portions" was invented by Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger (Gerolstein, Germany) and Dietmar Gross (Kelberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage and dispensing devices are provided, which include a housing, a rotor disposed in the housing, a dispensing opening disposed in a bottom surface of the housing and configured to receive an individual medicament portion when a first channel of the rotor is aligned with the dispensing opening, and a recess disposed in the bottom surface o...