ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,636, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Inhalable medical aerosol dispensing system" was invented by Wee Chuan Melvin Loh (Singapore), Hugo Van Bever (Singapore), Tsui Ying Rachel Hong (Singapore) and Jing Ze Li (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A respiratory therapy management system includes intelligent valved holding chamber devices (IVHCs) corresponding to patients. Each IVHC generates air inflow data during an inhalation therapy session, and determines an inhalation technique score for the session. For each IVHC, a mobile computing device receives and processes inhalation te...