US Patent Issued to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology on March 17 for "Multi surface acoustic nebuliser" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,217, issued on March 17, was assigned to Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Melbourne, Australia).

"Multi surface acoustic nebuliser" was invented by Amarin McDonnell (Ringwood North, Australia), Amgad Rezk (Bayswater, Australia) and Leslie Yeo (Malvern East, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nebuliser for nebulising liquid droplets includes a housing; at least one piezoelectric substrate accommodated within the housing and having a transducer surface upon which is located at least one electroacoustic transducer for generating acoustic wave energy within the substrate, and an opposing non-transducer surface; and a liq...