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Method of opening a medicine package

  • US 4,690,676 A
  • Filed: 06/10/1986
  • Issued: 09/01/1987
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/14/1983
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method of dispensing medicine to a person comprising the steps of:

  • (a) providing a package of medicine provided with a code indicating information concerning the characteristics of the medicine;

    (b) providing a machine having means for identifying the medical needs of the person and for determining whether the dispensing of the medicine to the person will help satisfy the medical needs of the person, means for reading the code and transmitting the information indicated by the code to said identifying and determining means, means for rendering the code unreadable only when said identifying and determining means determines that the medicine in the package will help satisfy the medical needs of the person, and means for opening the package only when said identifying and determining means determines that the medicine in the package will help satisfy the medical needs of the person;

    (c) reading the code by the reading and transmitting means;

    (d) rendering the code unreadable by the rendering means;

    (e) opening the package by the opening means; and

    (f) delivering the medicine to the person.

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