US Patent Issued to CVS Pharmacy on March 18 for "Systems and methods for a numeric waiting bin for prescription fulfillment" (Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,970, issued on March 18, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).

"Systems and methods for a numeric waiting bin for prescription fulfillment" was invented by Nathaniel D. Gilman (Groton, Conn.), Christopher J. Goody (Mapleville, R.I.), Kyle J. McGrath (Kingstown, R.I.), Jeffrey Swindling (Smithfield, R.I.), Jared P. Tancrelle (Smithfield, R.I.) and Li Mei Zhang (Dedham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for a numeric waiting bin for prescription fulfillment. A computing system may be used to receive bin configuration values corresponding to a plurality of physical bins for prescript...