ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,338,084, issued on June 24, was assigned to Express Scripts Strategic Development Inc. (St. Louis).

"Refrigerated pharmaceutical order processing systems" was invented by Kenneth Perano (Saint Charles, Mo.) and Scott Swindells (Chesterfield, Mo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container repository for containers includes a cabinet having an interior. A container holder is disposed in the interior of the cabinet. The container holder includes a container receiver and a container dispenser. The container receiver has a container interior sized and shaped to receive and hold the containers as a stack of containers. The container dispenser ...