US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Sept. 1 for "Device and method for administering liquid to the ear canal" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,982, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Device and method for administering liquid to the ear canal" was invented by Jill Friend Davis (Novato, Calif.), Andrew N. Goldberg (San Francisco) and Don Hannula (San Luis Obispo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a delivery device for administering liquid includes a bottle body having a bottle neck, a bottle cap configured to attach to the bottle neck, a nozzle associated with the bottle cap, and a valve assembly associated within the nozzle, the valve assembly comprising a liquid metering valve configured...