ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,446, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to BRADY WORLDWIDE INC. (Milwaukee).

"Venting of pharmaceutical drug delivery device for air flow and humidity control" was invented by James D. Anderson Jr. (Lexington, Ky.) and Michael A. Marra III (Lexington, Ky.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pharmaceutical drug delivery device and method of preventing drying out and drooling of an ejection head for the drug delivery device. The device includes a device body; a fluid outlet nozzle attached to the device body; and a fluid jet ejection cartridge containing a liquid pharmaceutical drug disposed in the body. A fluid ejection head is attached to th...