ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,387,829, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Ricoh Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Medication support apparatus" was invented by Hiroshi Fujie (Aichi, Japan), Hirotaka Hayashi (Aichi, Japan), Akira Kojima (Kanagawa, Japan), Takuya Morinaga (Tokyo) and Wataru Nozaki (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication support apparatus includes a storage unit, an extracting unit, a transfer unit, and a medicine distributing unit. The storage unit is configured to store, in a stacked manner, one-dose packages in each of which medicines are packed. The extracting unit is configured to extract a specific one-dose package from the storage unit. The...