US Patent Issued to PARATA SYSTEMS on Sept. 30 for "System and method for high-volume filling of pharmaceutical prescriptions" (Illinois, Wisconsin, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,186, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to PARATA SYSTEMS LLC (Durham, N.C.).

"System and method for high-volume filling of pharmaceutical prescriptions" was invented by Michael W. Jehn (Waukesha, Wis.), Michael McCord (Morrisville, N.C.) and John Preston (Palatine, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vial accumulator for use in a high volume pharmacy facility includes: a feed plate having an aperture; a vial staging unit mounted to the feed plate, the vial staging unit comprising at least one receiving compartment; a gate movably mounted to the feed plate, the gate movable relative to the feed plate between a blocking position, whe...