US Patent Issued to CIPLA on Oct. 20 for "Methods and systems for simulating deposition of inhaled drug on lungs" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,770,533, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to CIPLA Ltd. (Mumbai, India).

"Methods and systems for simulating deposition of inhaled drug on lungs" was invented by Nandan Kulkarni (Mulund West, India) and Geena Malhotra (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (100), a system (200), and a method (500) for simulating deposition of an inhaled drug on lungs of an individual are disclosed. The apparatus (100) includes a mouth-throat model (102), an inhalation device (104), and a breath simulator (106) connected to the mouth-throat model (102) for dispersing drug and respiration flow respectively in the mouth-throat model (102)...