US Patent Issued to University of Cape Town on Dec. 2 for "Assistive device for an inhaler" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,235, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to University of Cape Town (Cape Town, South Africa).

"Assistive device for an inhaler" was invented by Sudesh Sivarasu (Cape Town, South Africa), Giancarlo Lanfranci Beukes (Cape Town, South Africa), Jason Dirk Voorneveld (Cape Town, South Africa), Michael Levin (Cape Town, South Africa), Yasheen Brijlal (Cape Town, South Africa), Gokul Arjunan Nair (Cape Town, South Africa) and George Alexis Hugo (Cape Town, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assistive device for a metered dose inhaler decreases the force required to operate the inhaler. The assistive device has a body with a passage f...