ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,467, issued on May 20, was assigned to YUYAMA MFG. Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Tablet receptacle and drug dispensing device" was invented by Koji Yamashita (Osaka, Japan) and Yoshinori Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tablet receptacle 50 receives the tablets discharged to the tablet dropping passage below a mounting part 12 in the drug dispensing device in which the tablets are packaged by being discharged from a tablet cassette 11 to a tablet dropping passage 42 through the mounting part 12. The tablet receptacle 50 includes a receiving port 50g to be inserted into the tablet dropping passage 42 when the table...