US 12,201,586 B2
Label reader for automatic drug compounder
Christopher Vernon Robert Klumph, Fort Collins, CO (US)
Assigned to CareFusion 303, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed by CareFusion 303, Inc., San Diego, CA (US)
Filed on Feb. 17, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/674,555.
Application 17/674,555 is a continuation of application No. 15/780,610, granted, now 11,288,505, previously published as PCT/US2016/063393, filed on Nov. 22, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/263,583, filed on Dec. 4, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2022/0172463 A1, Jun. 2, 2022
Int. Cl. G06V 20/00 (2022.01); A61J 1/20 (2006.01); A61J 3/00 (2006.01); G06V 30/32 (2022.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); A61J 1/10 (2006.01); A61J 1/16 (2023.01)
CPC A61J 3/002 (2013.01) [A61J 1/201 (2015.05); A61J 1/2089 (2013.01); G06V 30/333 (2022.01); H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/57 (2023.01); A61J 1/10 (2013.01); A61J 1/16 (2013.01); A61J 2200/74 (2013.01); A61J 2205/10 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A compounder system, comprising:
a vial tray defining a wheel having a plurality of openings for receiving a plurality of vial pucks, each vial puck coupled to a vial containing a drug, wherein a first vial puck having a first gear is sealingly attached to a top of a first vial;
a first motor configured to rotate the wheel to move the first vial to an imaging position;
a second motor; and
a second gear coupled to the second motor, wherein the second gear is configured to engage the first gear of the first vial puck attached to the first vial to rotate the first vial, without the second gear contacting the first vial itself, within the wheel to provide imaging access to one or more portions of the first vial.