ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,951, issued on June 17, was assigned to Omnicell Inc. (Cranberry Township, Pa.).
"Cartridge loading system for syringe caps" was invented by Ryan Kaintz (Allison Park, Pa.) and Peter Hoffman (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cartridge and loading system for loading tamper-evident syringe caps into a robotic pharmaceutical compounding device. The compounding device has a syringe finishing station, and can transfer tamper-evident caps from the cartridge to the syringe finishing station. The cartridge has a floor disposed at an angle to horizontal. The device may include a vibratory element for vibrating the cartridge, so that t...