US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on March 18 for "Time controlled medication" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,208, issued on March 18, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Time controlled medication" was invented by Uri Kartoun (Cambridge, Mass.), Zachary A. Silverstein (Austin, Texas) and Sarbajit K. Rakshit (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, a computer program product, and a computer system provide medications to a patient with a time gap. The method includes determining a dissolving pattern for the patient. The dissolving pattern includes a medication dissolving rate for a first medication prescribed to the patient and a filler dissolving rate for a filler selected so that the time ...