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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2025

Filed:

Nov. 13, 2024
Applicant:

Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc., St. Louis, MO (US);

Inventors:

Anne Wheeler, St. Charles, MO (US);

Jason L. Cagle, Indianapolis, IN (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/00 (2006.01); B65B 53/02 (2006.01); B65B 57/04 (2006.01); B65B 59/00 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B65G 43/08 (2006.01); B65G 47/64 (2006.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 1/1375 (2013.01); B65B 53/02 (2013.01); B65B 57/04 (2013.01); B65B 59/00 (2013.01); B65G 1/1376 (2013.01); B65G 43/08 (2013.01); B65G 47/64 (2013.01); B65B 2220/16 (2013.01); B65G 2203/0216 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01);
Abstract

A fulfillment system is provided and includes a perishable drug filling system and a non-perishable drug filling system. A shipping station is provided for delivering the coolers and the boxes to at least one delivery service. A conveyor is configured to move the boxes and the coolers from the drug filling systems to the shipping station. A decision station is located along the conveyor and is configured to determine if a container on the conveyor is a cooler or a box. The conveyor is configured to direct the coolers to a shrink wrap station and to direct the boxes to the shipping station while bypassing the shrink wrap station. The shrink wrap station is configured to apply a wrapper around the cooler and apply heat to the wrapper to shrink the wrapper around the cooler with the wrapper having a transparent section over a label on the cooler.


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