US Patent Issued to McKesson on Nov. 11 for "Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing real-time pricing information" (Georgia, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,469,040, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to McKesson Corp. (Irving, Texas).

"Method, apparatus, and computer program product for providing real-time pricing information" was invented by Stacy McCrommon (Loganville, Ga.), Scott Genone (Roswell, Ga.), Mark Beers (Lilburn, Ga.) and Keith Crozier (North Kingstown, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for providing real-time or near real-time pricing information with improved efficiency. A special price may be returned in response to a prescription inquiry, and/or an alternative price obtained from stored prescription transactions. ...