*** MannKind Assigned Patent ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- MannKind, Valencia, Calif., has been assigned a patent (8,220,505) developed by Trent A. Poole, Amherst, Mass., David F. Bonneau, West Boylston, Mass., and Per B. Fog, Bedford Hills, N.Y., for a "powder transport systems and methods." The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: "Powder dispensing and sensing apparatus and methods are provided. The powder dispensing and sensing apparatus includes a tray support structure to receive a cartridge tray holding cartridges, a powder dispenser assembly including powder dispenser modules to dispense powder into respective cartridges of a batch of cartridges in the cartridge tray, a powder transport system to deliver powder to the powder dispenser modules, a sensor module including sensor cells to sense respective fill states, such as the weights, of each of the cartridges in the batch of cartridges, and a control system to control the powder dispenser modules in response to the respective sensed fill states of each of the cartridges of the batch of cartridges." The patent application was filed on Dec. 15, 2010 (12/968,715). The full-text of the patent can be found at http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,220,505&OS=8,220,505&RS=8,220,505 Written by Arpi Sharma; edited by Anand Kumar.

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