US Patent Issued to BD SWITZERLAND SARL on March 17 for "Apparatus for packaging dosed quantities of solid drug portions" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,577,008, issued on March 17, was assigned to BD SWITZERLAND SARL (Eysins, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for packaging dosed quantities of solid drug portions" was invented by Eddy R. Lokkers (Espeet, Netherlands) and John Van De Koot (Doornspijk, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes multiple dosing stations each having an output opening, multiple fall ducts mounted to a mounting beam of a fall duct conveyor and multiple collectors connected to a collector conveyor. Each fall duct includes a first part and an opposing second part detachably connected to the first part, the secon...