ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,788, issued on June 10, was assigned to Omnicell Inc. (Cranberry Township, Pa.).
"Unit dose dispensing mechanisms" was invented by Edith Wilson (Healdsburg, Calif.), Gerardo Moreno (Pleasanton, Calif.), Guillermo Trejo (Gilroy, Calif.), Vikram Mehta (Dublin, Calif.) and Herbert Lawson Fisher (Portola Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms for dispensing items such as medications and medical supplies. Different mechanisms may be tailored to dispensing different kinds of items, for example medications in single dose packages, vials, syringes, or other similarly-shaped items. The dispensers may be placed in a dispensin...