ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,378, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
"Pressure relief valve for drug delivery device" was invented by Mehran Mojarrad (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ali Nekouzadeh (Simi Valley, Calif.), Scott R. Gibson (Simi Valley, Calif.), Sheldon Moberg (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Paul Daniel Faucher (Escondido, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device includes a housing releasably coupled with a patient, a pressure chamber disposed in the housing and including a vent, a container at least partially disposed in the pressure chamber for storing a drug connectable in fluid communication with a fl...