ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,915, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Transport Authority Inc. (San Leandro, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for delivering an API-containing liquid to an edible substrate" was invented by William Warren (Reno, Nev.), Walter Lee Smith (Danville, Calif.), Alan Rosdon George (San Jose, Calif.) and Mark Frederick Senko (Henderson, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are methods and apparatus for delivering an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) to a substrate, such as an edible. In particular, an API-containing liquid is dosed from a dosing head in small increments. Because the volume of API-containing liquid dosed in each i...