ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,460,446, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to MODEREAT LTD (Glasgow, Great Britain).

"Method and a housing for storing and controllably releasing a product" was invented by Christine Anne Maccuish (Glasgow, Great Britain) and Ahmed Nisham (Glasgow, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the invention relate to a method of controllably releasing a product to a user from a housing. The housing comprises at least one compartment, and an access opening for accessing the compartment, the access opening having a locked state and an unlocked state. The method comprises locking the access opening to the container to prevent access t...