US Patent Issued to Amgen on April 7 for "Backflow prevention mechanism for drug delivery device" (California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,379, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Backflow prevention mechanism for drug delivery device" was invented by Tohid Pirbodaghi (Cambridge, Mass.), Paul Daniel Faucher (Escondido, Calif.), Joshua Tamsky (Los Angeles), Scott Robert Gibson (Simi Valley, Calif.), Sheldon B. Moberg (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Jeff Lind (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device includes a housing, a container disposed in the housing, an activation mechanism, a needle insertion mechanism, a fluid flow connection, and a valve in fluid communication with the fluid flow connection and th...