US 11,869,646 B1
Medication validation system and related methods
Matthew Lingelbach, Clemmons, NC (US); Melissa Bube, High Point, NC (US); Vlad A. Catlan, Winston-Salem, NC (US); Marko Milojevic, Jamestown, NC (US); and Jared O. Santibanez, Forney, TX (US)
Assigned to INMAR RX SOLUTIONS, INC., Ft. Worth, TX (US)
Filed by INMAR Rx SOLUTIONS, INC., Ft. Worth, TX (US)
Filed on May 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/327,196.
Int. Cl. G16H 20/13 (2018.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G16H 70/40 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 20/13 (2018.01) [G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G16H 70/40 (2018.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medication validation system comprising:
a mobile wireless communications device comprising a housing, wireless communications circuitry carried by the housing, and a camera carried by the housing and configured to capture an image of a medication container, the medication container having physical container characteristics associated therewith and a computer-readable indicia affixed thereon; and
a validation server configured to
obtain a plurality of stored medication physical container characteristics and associated stored computer-readable indicia,
obtain image data associated with the image from the camera, the image data representative of the physical container characteristics of the medication container,
determine the physical container characteristics of the medication container from the obtained image data,
determine the computer-readable indicia from the obtained image data,
determine whether the medication container is mislabeled based upon an attempted matching of both of the stored medication physical container characteristics and obtained physical container characteristics of the medication container and the stored computer-readable indicia and obtained computer-readable indicia indicative that the medication container is mislabeled,
communicate a notification that the medication container is mislabeled to the mobile wireless communications device for display thereat,
in response to the notification that the medication container is mislabeled, a given user being permitted to one of discard and relabel the medication container, and
apply machine learning by updating the plurality of stored medication physical container characteristics and associated stored computer-readable indicia based upon a match within respective thresholds of both of the stored medication physical container characteristics and obtained physical container characteristics of the medication container and the stored and obtained computer-readable indicia indicative that the medication container is correctly labeled.