Patents by Inventor Barton Carter Mitchell

Barton Carter Mitchell has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9922384
    Abstract: A wireless computerized will call system is provided for filling prescriptions and then locating specific prescriptions that have been filled when the customer arrives to pick up the prescription. The system includes a computer workstation or network, a wireless transmitter, and hanger bags for temporarily storing prescriptions awaiting customer pick up. The hanger bags are equipped with wireless receivers and transducers. When a pharmacy worker commands the computer system to locate a specific prescription, the specific hanger bag containing that prescription receives a wireless signal from the computer system and activates the transducer on the hanger bag to alert the pharmacy worker to the location of the prescription.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Inventors: William Robert Cobb, Chris Gregory Cox, Barton Carter Mitchell, Derek William Thompson, Brian Marshall Burney
  • Publication number: 20130297325
    Abstract: A wireless computerized will call system is provided for filling prescriptions and then locating specific prescriptions that have been filled when the customer arrives to pick up the prescription. The system includes a computer workstation or network, a wireless transmitter, and hanger bags for temporarily storing prescriptions awaiting customer pick up. The hanger bags are equipped with wireless receivers and transducers. When a pharmacy worker commands the computer system to locate a specific prescription, the specific hanger bag containing that prescription receives a wireless signal from the computer system and activates the transducer on the hanger bag to alert the pharmacy worker to the location of the prescription.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Publication date: November 7, 2013
    Inventors: William Robert COBB, Chris Gregory COX, Barton Carter MITCHELL, Derek William THOMPSON, Brian Marshall BURNEY
  • Patent number: 7571023
    Abstract: An apparatus for counting pharmaceutical units is provided having a supporting deck assembly, a hopper, a cylindrical chamber and a transport ring positioned between the hopper and the cylindrical chamber, wherein the hopper has a tilted floor, which can be shaken or vibrated to discharge the units on to a transport ring, and the transport ring is sloped downward from its inner to outer perimeter, which brings the units into contact with the undulating surface of the walls of the cylindrical chamber to promote singulation prior to counting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2009
    Assignee: JM Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Barton Carter Mitchell, Jerriel Keith Greene, Darol Blake Foster, Michael Wayne Davis
  • Publication number: 20080255700
    Abstract: An apparatus for counting pharmaceutical units is provided having a supporting deck assembly, a hopper, a cylindrical chamber and a transport ring positioned between the hopper and the cylindrical chamber, wherein the hopper has a tilted floor, which can be shaken or vibrated to discharge the units on to a transport ring, and the transport ring is sloped downward from its inner to outer perimeter, which brings the units into contact with the undulating surface of the walls of the cylindrical chamber to promote singulation prior to counting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2007
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: JM Smith Corporation
    Inventors: Barton Carter Mitchell, Jerriel Keith Greene, Darol Blake Foster, Michael Wayne Davis
  • Patent number: 7412302
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automated system for pharmaceutical singulation, counting and dispensing, whereby a bulk of stored pharmaceutical units are singulated into a single file line for counting and dispensing. With reference to the drawings, the pharmaceutical singulation, counting and dispensing system comprises generally, a deck assembly (A), a cylindrical chamber (B), a rotatable transport ring (C), a plurality of adjustable fingers (D), an adjustable reciprocating member (E), an adjustable rotatable member (F), a counting system (G), a hopper (H), and a control system (I).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2008
    Assignee: JM Smith Corporation
    Inventors: William Robert Cobb, Michael Wayne Davis, Howitt Spurling Smith, Justin Daniel Wyatt, Warren Daniel Leonard, Darol Blake Foster, Kevin Franklin Spicer, Barton Carter Mitchell