ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,095, issued on March 17, was assigned to Transport Authority Inc. (Dover, Del.).

"Systems and methods for accurate and repeatable delivery of active pharmaceutical ingredients" was invented by William Warren (Lafayette, Calif.) and Walter Lee Smith (Danville, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This present disclosure provides reliable methods and apparatus for delivering microdroplets containing an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to underlying substrates. A control system is provided to ensure that the API dosage is both accurate and repeatable."

The patent was filed on Sept. 14, 2022, under Application No. 17/944,920.

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