ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,389, issued on April 29, was assigned to VMI Holland B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).
"Medicine dispensing device and method for dispensing medicine" was invented by Kees Jochemsen (Epe, Netherlands), Ton de Boer (Epe, Netherlands) and Hendrik Leendert 't Lam (Epe, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicine dispensing device includes a tray comprising a plurality of storage cavities; a drop plate comprising a plurality of drop openings, the drop plate below the tray in a drop direction and slidable with respect to the tray; a retaining member which allows the drop plate to slide with respect to the tray between a drop position and ...