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US 12,009,082 B2Granted
System and method for the verification of medication
OwnerJohn Woodyearinventor
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Abstract
A system and method for verifying proper possession of a medication is disclosed. A reader device scans a code printed on the medication to extract an embedded serial number and captures an image of the face of the person in possession of the medication. A first server queries a prescription database, which retrieves facial characteristic data associated with the embedded serial number. A determination is made if the retrieved facial characteristic data matches facial characteristic data extracted from the captured image. The match information is displayed on the reader device.
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A method for verifying possession of a medication comprising:
- receiving at a relay server from a mobile device remote from the relay server via a communications network, identifying facial information of a person possessing the medication, and medication information determined from the medication in the possession of the person;
- analyzing the medication information, at the relay server, to determine a prescription database system remote from the relay server to be queried;
- sending a query to the prescription database system and receiving patient information comprising patient facial information associated with the medication information, at the relay server;
- determining match information by comparing the identifying facial information with the patient facial information at the relay server to verify possession of the medication;
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- transmitting match information to the mobile device via the communications network without transmitting the patient information to the mobile device, wherein the match information comprises an indication of a match or a non-match such that patient information for the recipient of the medication is not received or displayed.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.