ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,215, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CHIESI FARMACEUTICI S.P.A. (Parma, Italy).

"Powder inhaler assembly" was invented by Alan Tweedie (Parma, Italy), Colin Mitchell (Parma, Italy), Alan Sanders (Parma, Italy), Andrew T. Heidt (Parma, Italy), Gyorgy Szarka (Parma, Italy) and Bogdan-Alexandru Cociu (Parma, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A powder inhaler assembly includes a powder inhaler including a metering device having a dosing recess and movable, with respect to a container and to an inhalation channel, between an idle state, in which the dosing recess is in communication with an opening of the container so as to be fille...