ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,503, issued on July 1, was assigned to Omnicell Inc. (Cranberry Township, Pa.).

"Compounding device system" was invented by Giuseppe Trovato (Trieste, Italy), Andrea Schiavinato (Trieste, Italy), Luca Amato (Bolzano, Italy), Charles Marsh (Cranberry Township, Pa.) and Larry McCutchan (Allison Park, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for compounding medications. The system includes one or more compounding devices, and a central computer system. The central computer system receives requests, at least some of which require the compounding of one or more medications, and pushes assignments of respective compounding tasks to the o...