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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2020
Filed:
May. 10, 2019
Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Jonathan W. Joplin, Chesterfield, MO (US);
Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);
Abstract
An automated dispensing device for a pharmaceutical order filling system includes an order processing device to receive a pharmaceutical order. The order processing device includes a cell for containing an available quantity of a pharmaceutical of the pharmaceutical order, and an insert received in the cell. The insert has a dispensing tube, and is adapted to receive the available quantity of the pharmaceutical and to dispense a measured quantity of the pharmaceutical through the dispensing tube. The cell includes a funnel having a weighted gate adapted to receive the dispensing tube of the insert.