ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,325, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to AptarGroup Inc. (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Drug delivery devices and methods for administering substances to a body cavity by heterogenous aerosolization for treatment of binge-eating disorders and/or obesity" was invented by Daniel Shahaf (Kibbutz Dganiya B, Israel) and Iris Shichor (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides means and methods for delivering a predetermined volume of a substance, within at least one body cavity of a subject, comprising a predefined volume for containing the predetermined volume of the at least one substance; a delivery end f...