Patent ID: 7721512

Claim:
A method of filling solid pharmaceutical product packaging comprising the steps of: storing patient specific prescription data in a memory associated with a computer controller; automatically effecting relative motion between a solid pharmaceutical product passageway located beneath a plurality of automated dispensing canisters and a plurality of cavity locations arranged in an array corresponding to individual cavities of a solid pharmaceutical product package to selectively position the passageway above a first one of the plurality of cavity locations; automatically selectively dispensing one or more solid pharmaceutical products from each required dispensing canister corresponding to a prescribed dose at a dosing time for a specific patient corresponding to the first one of the plurality of cavity locations; and thereafter automatically effecting relative motion between the solid pharmaceutical product passageway and each remaining cavity location and temporarily stopping at each cavity location of the array and automatically selectively dispensing one or more solid pharmaceutical products from each dispensing canister corresponding to a prescribed dose at a dosing time for the specific patient corresponding to each cavity location until all cavities for the patient prescription have been filled.