ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,148, issued on July 14, was assigned to OKAPI MEDICAL LLC (Akron, Ohio).
"Adhesive applicator including novel applicator tip" was invented by Jack Goodman (Ann Arbor, Mich.), David Kay (Akron, Ohio), Ananth Murthy (Akron, Ohio), Darren Obrigkeit (Aachen, Germany), Gary Pennington (New Franklin, Ohio), Yizhou Zhao (Brighton, Mass.), Joseph Spalding (Elyria, Ohio), Jonathan Morgan (Westlake, Ohio), Michael Tracz (Brecksville, Ohio) and Paul Wyman (Maastricht, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An applicator is provided for a flowable media, particularly an adhesive contained in a container and the applicator includes an elongat...