US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Dec. 23 for "Systems and methods for automated pharmaceutical stock management" (British, Italian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,505,919, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Systems and methods for automated pharmaceutical stock management" was invented by Paolo Sepe (Naples, Italy), Richard Ian Naylor (Derbyshire, Great Britain), Sarah Helen Scriver (Nottingham, Great Britain), Giovanni Passarella (Naples, Italy), Farid Poonja (Epsom, Great Britain), Neil Younger (Lincoln, Great Britain) and Felipe Sanchez (Schaumburg, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The current disclosure relates to systems and methods for prescription stock management at one or more pharmacies in a pharmacy chain. The system initializes and trains a stock man...