US Patent Issued to VMI Holland on Jan. 13 for "Method, computer program product and dispensing device for dispensing discrete medicaments" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,315, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to VMI Holland B.V. (Epe, Netherlands).

"Method, computer program product and dispensing device for dispensing discrete medicaments" was invented by Martinus Johannes Donatus Brakkee (Epe, Netherlands), Peter van Roon (Epe, Netherlands) and Patrick van Voorn (Epe, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for dispensing discrete medicaments with a dispensing device includes the steps of predicting a depletion time in the future when the medicaments in the container of a first feeder unit of the plurality of feeder units will be depleted; providing a notification ahead of said depletion t...