ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,785, issued on March 24, was assigned to NiPPharma Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Drug inhaler and counter mechanism" was invented by Shinichi Ono (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "[Problem] To provide a drug inhaler equipped with a counter mechanism having a simple and compact configuration. [Solution] In this inhaler 100, a mount is gradually peeled off one or a plurality of blister strips in coordination with the operation of a blister opening means, and an amount of a powdered drug corresponding to a single dose is sequentially fed to a space enabling inhalation through an inhalation port 41. The inhaler 100 has a counter mechanism for ...