ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,270, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to XEROX Corp. (Norwalk, Conn.).
"Handheld filament extension atomizer for precision delivery of drugs and therapeutics" was invented by Michael Benedict (Palo Alto, Calif.), David Mathew Johnson (San Francisco), Scott E. Solberg (San Jose, Calif.), Jamie Kalb (Mountain View, Calif.), Ravi Neelakantan (Redwood City, Calif.), Jerome Unidad (Paris), David Charles Taylor (San Francisco) and Frances Yan (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A docking station for a hand-held filament extension atomizer device includes a receiver to receive the device, station electronics, a recharging point for...