Patent ID: 11869646
Assignee: INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer readable medium for validating a medication, the non-transitory computer readable medium comprising computer executable instructions that when executed by a processor of a validation server cause the processor to perform operations comprising:
obtaining a plurality of stored medication physical container characteristics and associated stored computer-readable indicia;
obtaining image data associated with an image of a medication container from a camera carried by a housing of a mobile wireless communications device comprising wireless communications circuitry carried by the housing, the image data representative of physical container characteristics of the medication container, the medication container having a computer-readable indicia affixed thereon;
determining the physical container characteristics of the medication container from the obtained image data;
determining the computer-readable indicia from the obtained image data;
determining whether the medication container is mislabeled based upon an attempted matching of both of the stored medication physical container characteristics and obtained physical container characteristics of the medication container and the stored computer-readable indicia and obtained computer-readable indicia indicative that the medication container is mislabeled; and
communicating a notification that the medication container is mislabeled to the mobile wireless communications device for display thereat;
in response to the notification that the medication container is mislabeled, a given user being permitted to one of discard and relabel the medication container; and
applying machine learning by updating the plurality of stored medication physical container characteristics and associated stored computer-readable indicia based upon a match within respective thresholds of both of the stored medication physical container characteristics and obtained physical container characteristics of the medication container and the stored and obtained computer-readable indicia indicative that the medication container is correctly labeled.