Apparatus, system and methods for dispensing products
CA 2562089 C · Owner: Finn, Daniel C. · Inventors: Finn, Daniel C.; Holmes, William K.; Gaasch, Thomas F.
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Products are dispensed from a dispensing apparatus in which products marked with transaction information are received in a two-dimensional array of moveable bins. In response to control information synthesized from transaction information on the products in the bins and a dispense request the array is , operated to place a bin at a dispensing station on the dispensing apparatus. At the dispensing station, a mechanism is operated in response to the control information to provide access to the bin. A product in the bin may then be retrieved.
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- Filed April 15, 2005 and granted November 5, 2013. A Canadian patent filed from October 1, 1989 lasts 20 years from filing, so its term ended April 15, 2025.
- Certificates of supplementary protection extend only drug patents, and it isn't classified as one.
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