ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,330,177, issued on June 17, was assigned to BUERKERT WERKE GMBH & Co. KG (Ingelfingen, Germany).

"Dosing device and method of dosing liquid media" was invented by Fabian Mittnacht (Ingelfingen, Germany), Nathalie Kettemann (Ingelfingen, Germany), Matthias Boehringer (Ingelfingen, Germany) and Patrick Mohs (Ingelfingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dosing device has a dosing tip for dispensing liquid medium and at least one pressure vessel with a pressurizing gas, in which an overpressure or a negative pressure can be set as a predefined pressure setpoint value of an internal pressure by a pressure regulator, wherein the inter...