ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,497, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to OptiNose Inc. (Yardley, Pa.).
"Nasal delivery devices" was invented by Per Gisle Djupesland (Oslo, Norway), Michael Leclerc (Cranston, R.I.), Ramy A Mahmoud (Skillman, N.J.), Shane Siwinski (Barrington, R.I.), Joseph Gordon (Mansfield, Mass.) and Justin Fisk (Providence, R.I.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nasal delivery device for and method of delivering substance to a nasal airway of a subject, the delivery device comprising: a nosepiece (117) for fitting to a nasal cavity of a subject; a mouthpiece (119) into which the subject in use exhales; a delivery unit, which comprises an actuation ...