US Patent Issued to Stamford Devices on July 7 for "Protection of aperture plate during aerosol generation" (Irish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,338, issued on July 7, was assigned to Stamford Devices Ltd. (Galway, Ireland).

"Protection of aperture plate during aerosol generation" was invented by Joseph Grehan (Gort, Ireland), Noel Coyle (Craughwell, Ireland), Russell Greaney (Carnmore, Ireland) and Stephen Thornton (Oughterard, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An aerosol delivery system has an aerosol generator with a vibrating aperture plate (10) and an actuator (11, 16, 17, 19), a controller (18, 19). The controller in real time monitors (201) the aerosol generator as it is driven for vibration of the aperture plate, and detects (202) a change in an electrical charact...