Patents Assigned to MEPS Realtime, Inc.
  • Patent number: 7175081
    Abstract: A medication dispensing unit is provided for tracking medical products having a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag uniquely associated therewith. The dispensing unit includes compartments for receiving medical products therein, and readers for reading the RFID tags associated with the medical products in the compartments. A processor is coupled to the readers for receiving and processing readings of the RFID tags in the compartment to identify the medical products in the compartments. The processor may identify a medical product removed from a compartment by determining a difference between readings of the RFID tags in the compartment taken before and after the medical product is removed from the compartment. The processor may verify that the medical product removed from the compartment is authorized to be removed or confirmed that an identified patient is intended to receive the medical product being removed from the compartment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2007
    Assignee: MEPS Realtime, Inc.
    Inventors: Christer O. Andreasson, Jimmy C. Caputo