ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,930, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to VERMES MICRODISPENSING GMBH (Holzkirchen, Germany).

"Metering system and method for controlling a metering system" was invented by Mario Fliess (Munich), Andreas Steinhauser (Munich) and Tobias Tetzner (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a dosing system (1) for dosing a dosing material. The dosing system (1) has a housing (11), comprising a nozzle (70) and a supply channel (62) for dosing material, and a discharge element (80) movably mounted in the housing (11) and an actuator unit (10) coupled to the discharge element. The actuator unit (10) comprises an actuator (12...