ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,124, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Hisaaki Matsunaka (Kashiwara, Japan).

"Medicine applicator, medicine application kit, and pressing tool for medicine applicator" was invented by Hisaaki Matsunaka (Kashiwara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a medicine applicator that can attachably and detachably hold a treatment article and that can provide as large an effective area as possible of the treatment article used for application. A medicine applicator 100 includes: an arm 10 extending in a longitudinal direction, of which one end portion side is a grip portion 11; and a pedestal portion 222 disposed on the ar...