US Patent Issued to Lonza Sales on Sept. 22 for "Device for dosing solid particulate material" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,920, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Lonza Sales AG (Switzerland).

"Device for dosing solid particulate material" was invented by Hendrik Hoebeke (Bornem, Belgium), Hilde Buydts (Bornem, Belgium) and Jan Bouquet (Bornem, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates a dosing device, DOSDEV, for dosing solid particulate material into a receptacle, preferably into a capsule, the DOSDEV has a dosing element which has a tube shape which can be filled with the solid particulate material by sucking in the solid particulate material by means of a vacuum and wherein excess solid particulate material sticking to th...