ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,798, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to CIPLA Ltd. (Mumbai, India).
"Adherence-tracking and monitoring device for metered-dose inhaler" was invented by Nandan Kulkarni (Maharashtra, India), Geena Malhotra (Maharashtra, India), Brinder Ahluwalia (Karnataka, India) and Mohnish Jagdish Zaveri (Maharashtra, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An adherence-monitoring and tracking device captures usage of a metered dose inhaler (MDI). The device includes an enclosure for enclosing a metered dose inhaler (MDI), and an electro-mechanical system forming a part of enclosure to sense and log the operation of the MDI. The electro-mechanical syste...