Patent ID: 8271128
Filing Date: 2012-09-18
Classification: A61J,G16H

Abstract:
1. A prescription fulfillment system which counts manually-poured tablets and tablets fed from a cassette, comprising: a housing; an upright chute mounted with respect to the housing through which objects fall into the housing; a first automatic tablet counter within the housing which receives tablets from the chute and counts plural tablets simultaneously moving past a sensor; a cassette dispenser integrated with the system having a cassette mount which positions a cassette mounted thereon to feed tablets to the chute and first automatic tablet counter; a cassette dispenser drive system which powers a mounted cassette to feed tablets therefrom; a second automatic object tablet counter which counts single tablets moving past a sensor fed from a mounted cassette; and a data processing platform within the housing operatively connected to the first and second automatic tablet counters and the cassette dispenser drive system, the data processing platform being operative to: