ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,990, issued on March 11, was assigned to Evernorth Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).
"Portable medication container" was invented by Lindsay N. Gilreath (Edwardsville, Ill.) and Robert E. Hoffman (Linden, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The medication container includes a generally card-shaped housing with an interior. The housing has a first opening that is sized to allow a plurality of pills to simultaneously be inserted into the interior of the housing and a first door that is movable between an open position and a closed position to selectively open and close the first opening. The housing also has a second opening tha...