US Patent Issued to Equashield Medical on Dec. 16 for "Vial manipulator for use in a robotic pharmaceutical preparation system" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,258, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Equashield Medical Ltd (Migdal Tefen, Israel).

"Vial manipulator for use in a robotic pharmaceutical preparation system" was invented by Eric Shem-Tov (Ramat Hasharon, Israel) and Roie Taboch (Yokneam Eilit, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vial manipulator is provided for use in a robotic pharmaceutical preparation system. The vial manipulator includes a manipulator body defining a main axis; a first vial holder pivotably coupled to the manipulator body and configured to receive and hold of a vial assembly; a first pivoting mechanism for pivoting the first vial holder about a first axis...