ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,557, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TOSHO INC. (Tokyo).
"Tablet cassette" was invented by Yoshihito Omura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tablet cassette includes a tablet container for containing tablets in a random manner and a rotor provided therein and having a plurality of tablet receiving portions, and allows tablets, which have fallen into the tablet receiving portions through axial rotation of the rotor, to successively fall down through a discharge port at the bottom portion of the tablet container. The rotor includes a circumferential expansion-contraction mechanism, a radial expansion-contraction mechanism, and...