Oriel Therapeutics, Inc.

Ab Sciex LLC

Charles A Buckner, Iii

Rachel Striebig

Scott Alexander Lewis

Thomas W Ruckdeschel

Jonathan David Tuckwell

Andrew Murray Gow

Matthew Allen

David Stuart Harris

Hugh Charles Crenshaw

Mehul F Patel

George McGee Perkins

John Kenneth Hainsworth

Andrew J Valentine

Joshua Tanner Nevill

Daniel M Hartmann

Frank Anthony Montefusco

David W Wyrick

Gregory A Votaw

William Karsh

Methods of fabricating and operating dry powder inhalers that include dose disks and airway channel disks with sealant layers, the airway channel disks forming radially-extending discrete, typically dose-specific, airway channels serially forming a portion of the inhalation pathway to deliver dry powder to a user using the inhalers.

Dry powder dose container assemblies and related inhalers

Methods of operating and fabricating inhalers with airway disks having discrete airway channels

Dry powder inhalers and methods are provided that facilitate deagglomeration of powdered medicament during inspiration. A dry powder inhaler includes a dry powder medicament container assembly, and an elongated dry powder delivery tube having an inlet at one end that communicates with a dose container, and an outlet or inhalation port that extends from the inhaler housing at an opposite end. The delivery tube includes one or more apertures adjacent the inlet that cause cyclonic or turbulent airflow through the delivery tube. The inner surface of the delivery tube has a polygonal configuration and the cyclonic air stream bounces off the polygonal inner surface numerous times as the air stream flows through the delivery tube. Another dry powder inhaler includes a deagglomeration chamber with a polygonal inner surface. An air stream containing dry powder medicament is directed into the deagglomeration chamber and impacts the polygonal inner surface numerous times.

Dry powder inhalers with multi-facet surface deagglomeration chambers and related devices and methods

Inhaler

Dry powder inhalers include radially-extending discrete, typically dose-specific, airway channels serially forming a portion of the inhalation pathway to deliver dry powder to a user using the inhalers.

Inhalers with airway disks having discrete airway channels and related disks and methods

Apparatus and Method for Handling Fluids at Nano-Scale Rates. A linear displacement pump produces non-pulsatile liquid flow rates as low as the nl/mm range. The pump includes a servo motor, a gear reduction, a lead screw, a linear stage, a barrel, and a plunger extending into the barrel and coupled to the stage. A microfluidic interconnect device can be coupled to the barrel. One or more of these pumps can be disposed in a thermally controlled pump assembly that includes a pump housing, a thermally conductive body disposed in the housing and including first and second opposing sides, and a temperature regulating element such as a thermoelectric device disposed in thermal contact with the thermally conductive body on a side thereof opposite to the barrel or barrels of the pumps.

Apparatus and method for handling fluids at nano-scale rates

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Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America

Charles A Buckner, Iii