ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,786, issued on March 24, was assigned to Adherium (NZ) Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Compliance monitor for loosely coupling to an inhaler" was invented by Garth Campbell Sutherland (Auckland, New Zealand) and Michael James Gormack (Auckland, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention relates to a compliance monitor for monitoring patient usage of a medicament delivery device, where the medicament delivery device includes a store of medicament and an actuator. The compliance monitor includes a housing adapted to enclose the medicament delivery device, and a dose counter, associated with the housing, for recording the...