ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,925, issued on May 27, was assigned to PHC HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Pharmaceutical management system" was invented by Hideyuki Morii (Ehime, Japan), Yoshinori Hosoe (Ehime, Japan) and Yukitoshi Miyamoto (Ehime, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmaceutical management system includes: at least one pharmaceutical storage box to store at least one pharmaceutical having corresponding at least one IC tag attached thereto; a reading device to read information stored in the IC tag, the information representing the pharmaceutical; a controller to obtain the information of the IC tag from the reading device, to manage the pharmaceutic...