ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,824, issued on July 22, was assigned to Norton (Waterford) Ltd. (Waterford, Ireland).
"Compliance monitoring module for a breath-actuated inhaler" was invented by Mark Steven Morrison (Basking Ridge, N.J.), Douglas E. Weitzel (Hamilton, N.J.), Enrique Calderon Oliveras (Waterford, Ireland) and Daniel Buck (Waterford, Ireland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A compliance monitoring module for a breath-actuated inhaler comprising: a miniature pressure sensor, a sensor port of said sensor being pneumatically coupled to a flow channel through which a user can inhale; a processor configured to: receive a signal originating from a dosing mec...