US Patent Issued to S&SX-ray Products on March 4 for "Medication dispensing arrangement without scanning" (Texas Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,612, issued on March 4, was assigned to S&SX-ray Products Inc. (Houston).

"Medication dispensing arrangement without scanning" was invented by Norman A. Shoenfeld (Cypress, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmacy tray for medications and medical items for patient treatment kit is placed onto a shelf that carries a grid of optical presence sensors. The location and identification of each item in the tray is recorded on a digital inventory for that tray. At the patient treatment site each item taken is recorded and the remaining inventory is updated without scanning the items. Each pharmacy tray bears a unique identifier that c...