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A medicine safety storage system restricts access to medicines to authorized persons who have pre-programmed a microprocessor to recognize their unique fingerprint. The system includes a housing portion, a cap portion and means for releasably locking the cap portion to the housing portion. The housi

A medicine safety storage system restricts access to medicines to authorized persons who have pre-programmed a microprocessor to recognize their unique fingerprint. The system includes a housing portion, a cap portion and means for releasably locking the cap portion to the housing portion. The housing portion is generally hollow for holding at least one medicine container. The cap portion includes a scanner touch screen, an optical scanner and a microprocessor electrically connected to a power source. The microprocessor includes means for converting optical information relating to a fingerprint to optical fingerprint data, a permanent memory for storing the optical fingerprint data and means for comparing optical information relating to a subsequent fingerprint to the stored optical fingerprint data. The means for releasably locking the cap portion to the housing portion includes a motor electrically connected to the microprocessor and to the power source. The housing portion has at least one detent formed in the inner surface and the cap portion includes at least one locking pin fixed to the rotating shaft of the motor for engaging the at least one detent to lock the cap portion in position onto the housing portion. Preferably, the cap portion further includes a toggle switch electrically connected to the microprocessor. The toggle switch has a "record" position for reading and storing optical information relating to a fingerprint, a "secure" position for preventing the accidental recording or deleting the optical fingerprint data and a "delete" position for deleting the optical fingerprint data.

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1. A medicine safety storage system for restricting access to medicines to authorized persons, said system comprising:a generally hollow housing portion having inner and outer surfaces and one closed end and one open end; a cap portion releasably lockable to the open end of said housing portion, sai

1. A medicine safety storage system for restricting access to medicines to authorized persons, said system comprising:a generally hollow housing portion having inner and outer surfaces and one closed end and one open end; a cap portion releasably lockable to the open end of said housing portion, said cap portion having a top surface and a bottom casing, said cap portion comprising; a scanner touch screen embedded in said top surface of said cap portion; an optical scanner in optical communication with said touch screen; and a microprocessor electrically connected to said optical scanner, said microprocessor comprising means for converting optical information relating to a fingerprint to optical fingerprint data, a permanent memory for storing the optical fingerprint data and means for comparing optical information relating to a subsequent fingerprint to the stored optical fingerprint data; a power source electrically connected to said microprocessor; and means for releasably locking said cap portion to said housing portion.