ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,957, issued on July 22, was assigned to HERO HEALTH INC. (New York).

"Dispensable unit retrieval mechanism" was invented by Kutadgu Akdogan (New York), Christian Von Heifner (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Maya Kelley (Menlo Park, Calif.), Greggory Paul Hagopian (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Kalyan C. Vepuri (Newton, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system enables management of dispensable units by supporting functions such as retrieval, scheduled distribution, analysis, and notifications. To this end, a dispensable retrieval mechanism may be programmed to carry out blind retrievals of dispensable units using a retrieval strategy with a predetermined s...