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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2013
Innovation Associates, Inc., Johnson City, NY (US);
Prashanth Balasubramanian, Vestal, NY (US);
Joseph H. Boyer, Johnson City, NY (US);
James Boyer, Endicott, NY (US);
Mark Jones, New Milford, PA (US);
Christopher Mayes, Vestal, NY (US);
George Plesko, Chadds Ford, PA (US);
Edwin T. V. Quigley, Endicott, NY (US);
Joseph Scott, Vestal, NY (US);
Joseph Sienko, Apalachin, NY (US);
James Worthington, Binghamton, NY (US);
Alban Yee, Astoria, NY (US);
Innovation Associates, Inc., Johnson City, NY (US);
Abstract
A self-contained pill dispenser is disclosed. A housing is provided and a hopper for containing a plurality of pills is supported by the housing. A feed chute having a detector mechanism is operatively connected to the hopper for receiving pills therefrom. A microcontroller is also operatively connected to the hopper, the feed chute, and the detector mechanism. The microcontroller calculates the volume of each of the pills transiting the detector mechanism based on occluded electromagnetic signals detected by the detector mechanism and the time of transit of each pill relative thereto.