ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,273, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AptarGroup Inc. (Crystal Lake, Ill.).

"Devices and methods for delivering a substance to a body cavity" was invented by Daniel Shahaf (M.P. Emek Ha-Yarden, Israel), Iris Shichor (Zichron Ya'akov, Israel), Liron Shavit Hadar (Haifa, Israel) and Lia Kaufman (Zichron Ya'akov, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices are provided for delivering one or more substances within at least one body cavity. Such devices include at least one nosepiece having at least one capsule including a volume Vsub of the substances; at least one base in communication with the nosepiece, the base having...