公开(公告)号：US11753245B1

公开(公告)日：2023-09-12

申请号：US17093831

申请日：2020-11-10

Applicant: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

Inventor： Richard A. Schultz ,  Edward E. West ,  Scott Walter

IPC: B65G59/02 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G59/10 ,  B65G1/04 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B25J15/06

CPC classification number: B65G1/1373 ,  B65G1/0464 ,  B65G47/91 ,  B65G59/026 ,  B65G59/10 ,  B25J15/0683 ,  B65G2201/0235 ,  B65G2203/0233 ,  B65G2203/0283

Abstract: A pharmaceutical container holder for holding pharmaceutical containers includes a receiver having an interior sized and shaped to receive and hold the pharmaceutical containers as a stack of pharmaceutical containers. The receiver has a removal location from which the pharmaceutical containers are removed from the receiver. A lift raises the pharmaceutical containers disposed in the interior of the receiver upward to move the pharmaceutical containers toward the removal location. A lift controller operates the lift to move the pharmaceutical containers upward toward the removal location after an upper-most pharmaceutical container of the stack of pharmaceutical containers has been removed from the removal location to move a subsequent upper-most pharmaceutical container of the stack of pharmaceutical containers to the removal location.

公开(公告)号：US20220100978A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-31

申请号：US17515611

申请日：2021-11-01

Applicant: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

Inventor： Edward E. West ,  Scott Walter

IPC: G06K7/10 ,  G06K7/14

Abstract: The imaging system includes a rotating element that is configured to rotate about a central axis. A plurality of scanners are fixedly attached with the rotating element. Each scanner has a lens that faces generally towards the central axis, and the scanners are spaced apart from one another around the central axis. The scanners are configured to identify an optically readable machine readable code contained on the medication container. An actuator is operably connected with the rotating element and is configured to rotate the rotating element and the scanners around the central axis from respective e first positions to respective second positions to allow the scanners to image different areas of the medication container in response to a failure of the scanners to identify the machine readable code when the scanners were in the respective first positions.

公开(公告)号：US11494572B2

公开(公告)日：2022-11-08

申请号：US17515611

申请日：2021-11-01

Applicant: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

Inventor： Edward E. West ,  Scott Walter

IPC: G06K7/10 ,  G06K7/14

Abstract: The imaging system includes a rotating element that is configured to rotate about a central axis. A plurality of scanners are fixedly attached with the rotating element. Each scanner has a lens that faces generally towards the central axis, and the scanners are spaced apart from one another around the central axis. The scanners are configured to identify an optically readable machine readable code contained on the medication container. An actuator is operably connected with the rotating element and is configured to rotate the rotating element and the scanners around the central axis from respective e first positions to respective second positions to allow the scanners to image different areas of the medication container in response to a failure of the scanners to identify the machine readable code when the scanners were in the respective first positions.

公开(公告)号：US11170189B1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-09

申请号：US17036651

申请日：2020-09-29

Applicant: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.

Inventor： Edward E. West ,  Scott Walter

IPC: G06K7/10 ,  G06K7/14

Abstract: The imaging system includes a rotating element that is configured to rotate about a central axis. A plurality of scanners are fixedly attached with the rotating element. Each scanner has a lens that faces generally towards the central axis, and the scanners are spaced apart from one another around the central axis. The scanners are configured to identify an optically readable machine readable code contained on the medication container. An actuator is operably connected with the rotating element and is configured to rotate the rotating element and the scanners around the central axis from respective e first positions to respective second positions to allow the scanners to image different areas of the medication container in response to a failure of the scanners to identify the machine readable code when the scanners were in the respective first positions.