US Patent Issued to Vibrant on June 30 for "Vibrating capsule for enhancing absorption of ingested medicaments" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,667,705, issued on June 30, was assigned to Vibrant Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Vibrating capsule for enhancing absorption of ingested medicaments" was invented by Lior Ben-Tsur (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and a method of using a vibrating gastrointestinal capsule in coordination with an ingestible medicament. The vibrating gastrointestinal capsule may include a housing; a vibrating agitation mechanism causing said housing to exert vibrations on an environment surrounding the vibrating gastrointestinal capsule; a power supply for powering said vibrating agitation mechanism; and a control mechanism for activating...