ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,902, issued on June 17, was assigned to SipNose Ltd. (Yokne'am Ilit, Israel).

"Drug delivery devices and methods for administering substances to a body cavity by heterogenous aerosolization" was invented by Daniel Shahaf (Kibbutz Dganiya, Israel) and Iris Shichor (Zichron Yaakov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for delivering a predetermined volume of a substance within at least one body cavity of a subject includes a predefined volume for containing the predetermined volume of the at least one substance. The device also includes a delivery end for placement in proximity to the body cavity where the delivery end includ...