US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on March 25 for "Technology for automatically processing prescription functionalities based on transmitted digital images" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,942, issued on March 25, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Technology for automatically processing prescription functionalities based on transmitted digital images" was invented by Lindsey Kanefsky (Chicago), Kartik Subramanian (Chicago) and Dimple Rao (Chicago).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for automatically processing prescription refills and transfers are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a server associated with a pharmacy may receive, from an electronic device, a message including a digital image depicting a container of a prescription. The server may analyze the digital image to identi...