Patent Document ID: 20130221082
Application ID: 13404766
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An apparatus for identifying a medicinal substance, the apparatus comprising: a tray that receives and concurrently supports a plurality of individual pills formed at least in part from the medicinal substance that have been removed from a container; a non-transitory computer-readable memory storing a drug database comprising a plurality of drug entries, wherein each drug entry comprises at least one physical property related to an identity of a pill formed at least in part from a different medicinal substance; a recognition system comprising one or more recognition devices that captures an image of a plurality of different surfaces of each of the plurality of individual pills arranged on the tray and, from the image, recognizes at least one identifying feature comprising a visible physical property of the individual pills on the tray; and a controller that receives a signal indicative of the at least one identifying feature detected by the one or more recognition devices and determines at least one possible identity of the medicinal substance from among the different medicinal substances in the drug database based on the at least one identifying feature detected by the one or more recognition devices.