Patent ID: 8756122
Filing Date: 2014-06-17
Classification: F25D,G06Q,G07F,G16H,G16Z

Abstract:
1. A refrigerator, comprising: a cold storage compartment configured to hold a plurality of pharmaceutical product containers; a local database for storing information associated with the plurality of pharmaceutical product containers located in the cold storage compartment; an RFID reader configured to determine a unique identifier for a pharmaceutical product container added to the cold storage compartment based on a radio frequency identification signal produced by the added pharmaceutical product container; and a processor configured to determine, based on the information in the local database and the unique identifier, (i) whether the added pharmaceutical product container was previously removed from the cold storage compartment, (ii) a length of time that the added pharmaceutical product container was most recently removed from the cold storage compartment, and (iii) an updated total time out of refrigeration value for the pharmaceutical product container, wherein the processor calculates the updated total time out of refrigeration value by retrieving a prior total time out of refrigeration value from the local database and adding thereto said most recently removed length of time; wherein the processor is further configured to modify the information in the local database to include the length of time that the added pharmaceutical product container was most recently removed and the updated total time out of refrigeration value.