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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News – From Alexandria, Virginia, NewsRx jour nalists report that a patent by the inventors Hoffman, Robert E. (Linden, IN, US ), filed on November 3, 2023, was published online on September 24, 2024. The patent’s assignee for patent number 12099960 is Express Scripts Strategic De velopment Inc. (St. Louis, Missouri, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: “The background description provided here is for the purpos e of generally presenting the context of the disclosure. Work of the presently n amed inventors, to the extent it is described in this background section, as wel l as aspects of the description that cannot otherwise qualify as prior art at th e time of filing, are neither expressly nor impliedly admitted as prior art agai nst the present disclosure. “An automated pharmacy can process and fill a large number of prescriptions and prescription orders. Automated systems can be used by a high-volume pharmacy to process and fulfill prescriptions. “Mail order pharmacies provide a convenient and cost-effective option for patien ts to receive prescription drugs. For example, a mail order pharmacy can be capa ble of taking advantage of economies of scale, volume dispensing of prescription drugs, and centralized warehousing and shipping to reduce the cost of prescript ion drugs purchased by patients of the mail order pharmacy. Some types of prescr iption drugs can have temperature-related storage and handling requirements in o rder to maintain the safety and efficacy of the drugs.”
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