ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,127, issued on July 29, was assigned to MedFreedom LLC (Wellesley, Mass.).
"Medication adherence and monitoring system and method" was invented by David Bear (Wellesley, Mass.) and Walter Frankel (Wellesley, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication adherence and monitoring system and method for use with pill packet dosing is provided. The system is configured to mount on a medication reservoir that stores a stream of pill packets. The system utilizes a processor in conjunction with an optical scanner, to read scannable codes on the stream of pill packets to configure the system and track extraction of the pill packets from t...