US Patent Issued to Novartis on April 22 for "Method for measuring flow features in an inhaler, inhaler and system" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,280,204, issued on April 22, was assigned to Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Method for measuring flow features in an inhaler, inhaler and system" was invented by Dominik Ziegler (Basel, Switzerland) and Richard Pavkov (East Hanover, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a method for measuring at least one inhalation flow feature in an inhaler, wherein a capsule containing a formulation is located in the inhaler, the method comprising the steps of sensing an impact feature relating to impacts of the capsule on the inhaler and correlating the impact feature to at least one inhalation flow feature. The pres...