Patent ID: 11861554
Assignee: EXPRESS SCRIPTS STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 17:
18. A system comprising:
a support surface adapted to retain a plurality of drug packages in an unordered state being free of a logically controlled positioning, wherein the support surface includes a moveable surface that visibly supports and moves the plurality of drug packages positioned on the moveable surface, wherein the moveable surface is a continuous surface to repeatedly move one of the plurality of drug packages and is adapted to support the plurality of drug packages with varying shapes, sizes, and types;
an inventory identification unit adapted to acquire information for a detected orientation and a detected location of the plurality of drug packages moving on the moveable surface of the support surface, the inventory identification unit being disposed above the support surface with the plurality of drug packages on the moveable surface repeatedly moving past the inventory identification unit until ordered;
a picker adapted to obtain an individual package among the plurality of drug packages from the moveable surface based on a projected orientation and a projected location said individual package will have relative to the picker, the picker being disposed proximal to the support surface; and
a control subsystem communicatively connected to the inventory identification unit and the picker, the control subsystem adapted to process the acquired information for the detected orientation and the detected location from the inventory identification unit to generate the projected orientation and the projected location and to instruct the picker to pick an ordered, individual package at the projected orientation and the projected location, wherein the detected location, relative to the picker, is different than the projected location when the detected location is acquired by the inventory identification unit.