ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,048, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to TRUDELL MEDICAL INTERNATIONAL INC. (London, Canada).

"Integrated dose counter" was invented by Peter Scarrott (London, Canada), Michal Fulmyk (London, Canada), Dawid Halupka (Toronto), Justin Kim (Thornhill, Canada) and David Lynch (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An indicating device includes a mechanical dose counter adapted to count the number of doses that have been dispensed from or remain in a container and an electronic module coupled to the mechanical dose counter and adapted to record when the doses have been dispensed from the container. Methods of using and assemb...