ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,444, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Suzhou Inhal Pharma Co. Ltd. (Suzhou, China).

"Device and method for forming spherical particle clusters with ultrafine powders" was invented by Hang Zhou (Jiangsu, China), Yingliang Ma (Jiangsu, China), Jianhui Liu (Jiangsu, China), Jingxu Zhu (Jiangsu, China) and Kaiqi Shi (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device suitable for forming spherical particle clusters from fine powder is a device through which spherical particle clusters having a controlled particle size and a controlled hardness can be prepared from the fine powder by using a rolling granulation principle without add...