ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,679, issued on June 30, was assigned to Presspart GmbH & Co. KG (Marsberg, Germany).

"Electronic system" was invented by Benjamin Jung (Pulheim, Germany), Kyle Wilson (Dusseldorf, Germany), Richard Turner (Lancashire, Great Britain), Julian Hemy (Cheshire, Great Britain), Inga Meyer (Dusseldorf, Germany) and Nicholas G. Lesniewski-Laas (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system (1) comprises an electronic device (2) for gathering data from an inhaler (3) which is configured to dispense doses of a pharmaceutical formulation stored in a medicament reservoir. The system (1) further comprises an evaluation uni...