US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 17 for "Method for testing piezoelectric sound transducer" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,611, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Method for testing piezoelectric sound transducer" was invented by Steve Beguin (Rathdrum, Ireland), Maurice Curtin (Blackrock, Ireland) and Simon O'Reilly (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for testing a drug delivery device including a piezoelectric transducer, a microcontroller, and a DC power source, with the piezoelectric transducer having an operative state and inoperative state. The method includes providing a drive signal to the piezoelectric transducer of the drug delivery device, determining an actuation voltage value or a...