US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Oct. 14 for "System and method for supply chain of pharmaceuticals and other goods" (American, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,486, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"System and method for supply chain of pharmaceuticals and other goods" was invented by Matthew Cook (Uttoxeter, Great Britain), Rex A. Swords (Cedar Hill, Texas), Michael Bleser (Deerfield, Ill.) and William Sunna (Wheeling, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The following relates generally to facilitating delivery of prescription medication. In some embodiments, a pharmacy computer system: (i) receives a prescription, (ii) reviews the prescription, and (iii) sends the prescription to an intermediate cloud layer. The intermediate cloud layer may then determine ...