US Patent Issued to Virginia Commonwealth University on Jan. 13 for "Devices, systems, and methods for dry powder therapies" (Virginia, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,500, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, Va.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for dry powder therapies" was invented by Philip Worth Longest (Midlothian, Va.), Michael Hindle (North Chesterfield, Va.), Dale Farkas (Mechanicsville, Va.) and Susan Boc (Burlingame, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Containment units, dry powder inhalers, delivery systems, and methods for the same are disclosed. Exemplary devices are configured to have inlets and outlets which are formed with the containment walls of a containment unit. Air jets formed by the configuration of inlet(s) and outlet(s) inside th...