US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Oct. 28 for "Methods and apparatus to estimate costs of prescriptions" (Illinois, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,150, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"Methods and apparatus to estimate costs of prescriptions" was invented by Lawrence Salud (Chicago) and August Karlstedt (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to estimate costs of prescriptions are disclosed herein. An example system to estimate a cost of a prescription for a medication includes receiving a prescription for a medication for a patient, receiving a request for an estimated cost for the prescription for the patient from an entity, forming an input vector including prescription information f...