Prescription bottle imaging system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 8571297
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13653148

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The invention is directed to a prescription imaging system for capturing, storing and displaying images of prescription bottles during the prescription fulfillment process to monitor the quality of the fulfillment process. The system includes one or more pill cameras for capturing images of pills dispensed into one or more prescription bottles and one or more label cameras for capturing images of the bottle labels. The images are stored on a storage device in a database record. The images can be used to verify that the pills in each bottle correspond with the associated prescription.

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  • EXPRESS SCRIPTS STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT, INC.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Eller, Charles E Lake St. Louis, US 22 322
Youngs, Herbert A St. Peters, US 3 156

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