US 11,679,063 B1
Medication-dispensing system and method
Wade M. Butaud, Vernal, UT (US); Benjamin A. Grover, Phoenix, AZ (US); Kent F. Beck, Layton, UT (US); James A. Malmstrom, Kaysville, UT (US); and Mitchel Nelson, Bluffdale, UT (US)
Assigned to Pill Smart LLC, Vernal, UT (US)
Filed by BUTAUD ENTERPRISES LLC, Vernal, UT (US)
Filed on Mar. 11, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/199,431.
Application 17/199,431 is a continuation in part of application No. 17/135,773, filed on Dec. 28, 2020, abandoned.
Application 17/135,773 is a continuation of application No. 16/280,000, filed on Feb. 19, 2019, granted, now 10,874,590, issued on Dec. 29, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/632,412, filed on Feb. 19, 2018.
Int. Cl. A61J 1/03 (2023.01); A61J 7/00 (2006.01); A61J 7/04 (2006.01)
CPC A61J 7/0076 (2013.01) [A61J 1/03 (2013.01); A61J 7/0436 (2015.05); A61J 2200/30 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A medication-dispensing system comprising:
a prescription vial comprising an opening; and
a cap closing off the opening and comprising
an outer cover comprising an exit aperture,
an inner cover comprising an entrance aperture,
a transport portion positioned between the outer cover and the inner cover and comprising a chute, the chute comprising an open end and a closed end opposite the open end, and
a control system comprising a processor electrically controlling rotation of the transport portion between a load position and an unload position, wherein the load position comprises the open end of the chute being adjacent and opening to the entrance aperture and the unload position comprises the open end of the chute being adjacent and opening to the exit aperture.