Patent ID: 7930064

Claim:
A system for verifying an individual prescription identifying at least one of a formulation and a dosage of pharmaceutical pills during a dispensing process for the individual prescription, the system comprising: a pill dispensing apparatus for dispensing individual ones of the pills in an individual prescription into and through a dispensing area during the dispensing process; a pill collection area for collecting the pills dispensed through the dispensing area for the individual prescription, the dispensing area connected between the dispensing apparatus and the collection area, wherein the pills collected in the collection area during the dispensing process form an aggregate to be dispensed in the individual prescription; at least two sensors adjacent to the dispensing area for taking a plurality of measurements of the aggregate at multiple times during the dispensing process for the individual prescription; and a discrimination system for comparing the plurality of measurements to stored pharmaceutical models to verify that a plurality of characteristics of the aggregate substantially matches the stored pharmaceutical models of pills identified in the individual prescription for at least one of the formulation and the dosage of the pill in the aggregate.