ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,101, issued on May 27, was assigned to SUZHOU SINGMED MEDICAL DEVICE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY LTD. (Suzhou, China).

"Trigger assembly for inhaler, and inhaler" was invented by Fei Zhang (Jiangsu Province, China), Xiaoyuan Sun (Jiangsu Province, China) and Guangtao Zhao (Jiangsu Province, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A trigger assembly for an inhaler and an inhaler is provided. The trigger assembly includes: a first component; a second component, the first and second components being configured such that the second component is capable of moving away from the first component to a preloaded position in the case where the second c...