ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,852, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CVS Pharmacy Inc. (Woonsocket, R.I.).

"System and method for audible prescription label information using RFID prescription packaging" was invented by Sophia Beaumariage (Franklin, Mass.), Scott Capista (Lincoln, R.I.), Lindsey Desrosiers (Dartmouth, Mass.), Misa Q. Hoang (Cumberland, R.I.), Melissa Lambert (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Joseph Spears (Johnston, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Pharmacy data systems, mobile computing devices, and methods for audible prescription label information using near-field encoded prescription packaging, such as prescription containers with radio frequency iden...