US Patent Issued to Verinetics on Aug. 5 for "Integrated device and system for remote medications management" (North Carolina Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,025, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Verinetics Inc. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Integrated device and system for remote medications management" was invented by Thomas J. Mercolino (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The presently disclosed device includes a plurality of vials each bearing a unique identifier and in discrete locations in the device. An alignment assembly aligns one of the discrete locations with an access point for dispensing one of the vials. Computer executable instructions select a vial to be dispensed and store inventory information of the vials. The inventory information associates the unique...