US Patent Issued to PNEUMA RESPIRATORY on Dec. 9 for "Droplet device with inertial filtering" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,324, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to PNEUMA RESPIRATORY INC. (Boone, N.C.).

"Droplet device with inertial filtering" was invented by Louis Thomas Germinario (Kingsport, Tenn.), John H. Hebrank (Durham, N.C.), Charles Eric Hunter (Boone, N.C.), Jack C. Hunter (Boone, N.C.), Chengjie Li (Shenzhen, China) and Christopher W. Maurer (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronically actuated droplet delivery device includes a housing with an airflow exit at a mouthpiece and an airflow entrance in fluid communication with the airflow exit via an airflow channel. An aperture plate coupled to an electronic actuator energized b...