US Patent Issued to Verinetics on Feb. 4 for "Integrated device and system for drug dispensing" (American, Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,217,845, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Verinetics Inc. (Research Triangle Park, N.C.).

"Integrated device and system for drug dispensing" was invented by Thomas J. Mercolino (Chapel Hill, N.C.), John Gerard McKeon (Killarney, Ireland), Colin Daniel Zico O'Dowd (Cary, N.C.) and Matthew Hanlon (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a device includes a plurality of vials each bearing a unique identifier and in discrete locations in the device and an alignment assembly for aligning one of the discrete locations with an access point for dispensing one of the plurality of vials. Computer instructions select a vial o...