ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,295,913, issued on May 13, was assigned to CRISI Medical Systems Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Medication container encoding, verification, and identification" was invented by Walter J. Bochenko (Encinitas, Calif.), Stephen M. Prince (La Jolla, Calif.), Winthrop De Childers (San Diego), Joseph M. Calabro (Del Mar, Calif.), Wallace S. Halliday (Del Mar, Calif.) and Mark Van Veen (Cardiff, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication container encoding, verification and identification method is provided that includes receiving data characterizing a medication, generating an identifier encapsulating the data and applying an identifier...