Abstract
The assignee for this patent, patent number 12046343, is Walgreen Co. (Deerfield , Illinois, UnitedStates).Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“Generally speaking, pharmacists who dispense controlled subst ance prescriptions have a responsibilityto ensure that the controlled substance prescription is dispensed for a legitimate medical purpose in theusual course of professional practice. Specifically, pharmacists have a corresponding respons ibility to usetheir professional judgement to evaluate the validity of prescrip tions in conjunction with state and federalcontrolled substance laws when dispe nsing all prescriptions.