US Patent Issued to Omcare on July 8 for "Web enabled audiovisual medication dispensing with enhanced compliance verification" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,356,113, issued on July 8, was assigned to Omcare Inc. (Burnsville, Minn.).

"Web enabled audiovisual medication dispensing with enhanced compliance verification" was invented by Lisa Lavin (Prior Lake, Minn.), Avery W. Weigle (Robbinsdale, Minn.), Darren S. Jeseritz (Savage, Minn.) and Caleb O. Vainikka (Waconia, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A web enabled audiovisual medication dispenser has a locked, tamper resistant housing; timers and alarms; a receptacle for aggregated medication pouches; and a cutter that separates the aggregated medication pouches from a strip. The cutter is also configured to notch a pouch to facilitate ope...