Patent ID: 7931859

Claim:
A system to automate pharmaceutical compounding, the system comprising: a chamber; an automated system to transport medical containers within the chamber; a compounding system disposed in the chamber to transfer medicaments between medical containers; and a sanitization system to substantially reduce bioactivity on at least a portion of a first fluid transfer port of a first form of medical container and a second fluid transfer port of a second form of medical container, the sanitization system comprising: at least one radiation source to supply a dose of radiation; a first radiation seal assembly having a first aperture and being configured to engage the first fluid transfer port of the first form of medical container; at least a second radiation seal assembly substantially different from the first radiation seal assembly, wherein the second radiation seal assembly has a second aperture and is configured to engage the second fluid transfer port of the second form of medical container, the second form medical container being substantially different from the first form of medical container; a controller to determine which radiation seal assembly corresponds to a third fluid transfer port to be sanitized, wherein the third fluid transfer port is part of a third medical container, the third medical container being one of the first form and the second form; and an actuator to bring the portion of the third fluid transfer port to be sanitized into optical communication with the radiation source through the aperture of the determined radiation seal assembly.