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Automated label verify systems and methods for dispensing pharmaceuticals

  • US 8,262,842 B2
  • Filed: 09/22/2008
  • Issued: 09/11/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 09/21/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An apparatus for filling a prescription order with a plurality of products each containing a pharmaceutical, each shaped with either a card form factor or a box form factor, and each marked with a product barcode, the apparatus comprising:

  • a conveyor configured to move the products along a workflow path;

    a first verification station in the workflow path of the conveyor and configured to verify that the product barcode on each product belongs in the prescription order being filled;

    a label application station in the workflow path of the conveyor and configured to print and apply a patient label onto each of the products; and

    a second verification station in the workflow path of the conveyor and configured to independently verify that the product barcode on each of the products matches a patient barcode on the patient label after application to the product, the second verification station including a first barcode reader configured to read the product barcode and patient barcode on the products shaped with the card form factor, a second barcode reader configured to read the product barcode on the products shaped with the box form factor, and a third barcode reader configured to read the patient barcode on the products shaped with the box form factor.

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