ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,233, issued on March 17, was assigned to INOSYSTEMS (Antony, France).

"NO delivery device with emergency dosing system" was invented by Thierry Boulanger (Antony, France), Frederic Marchal (Antony, France) and Mary Schmitt (Bagneux, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an NO delivery device for supplying an NO-containing gas, including an NO injection line, a flow rate measurement device and a valve device. The valve device is normally closed. An emergency line connected to the injection line includes an emergency solenoid valve, which is normally open, and a flow rate control device. An operating unit operates these e...