US Patent Issued to WALGREEN on Sept. 2 for "System and method for automating pharmacy processing of electronic prescriptions" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,406,757, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to WALGREEN Co. (Deerfield, Ill.).

"System and method for automating pharmacy processing of electronic prescriptions" was invented by Mohsin O. Ansari (Highland Park, Ill.), Jill M. Kunicki (Salem, Wis.) and Paul K. Wilson (Lake Villa, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system may provide an automated pharmacy processing system which automatically processes an electronic prescription by converting the electronic prescription into a pharmacy prescription record. In this way, an electronic prescription can be filled by a pharmacist without manual data entry. The system receives an elec...