US Patent Issued to PHC HOLDINGS on Nov. 11 for "Chemical agent supply device and chemical agent supply method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,554, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PHC HOLDINGS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Chemical agent supply device and chemical agent supply method" was invented by Akira Kondo (Gunma, Japan) and Hiroshi Hama (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug supply device includes: a plurality of cassettes configured to eject a drug one by one; and a control device configured to set a plurality of groups including a plurality of cassettes selected from among the plurality of cassettes. The control device selects a cassette that performs a drug ejection operation from each of the plurality of groups such that a number of tablets of a drug to be ej...