ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,850, issued on May 20, was assigned to Ferring B.V. (Hoofddorp, Netherlands).

"Miniaturised device for automated manufacture of pharmaceutical compositions, and associated method" was invented by Robert Ronnback (Morges, Switzerland) and Josselin Saunier (Chernex, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a device (60) for manufacturing pharmaceutical compositions, comprising: a support (62); a mixing container (16); a plurality of reservoirs (18, 20) containing starting materials for the composition of a medicament; at least one dispensing device (64, 66) that is designed to dispense an amount of a ...