US Patent Issued to Amgen on July 28 for "Automated drug filling process" (Massachusetts, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,038, issued on July 28, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Automated drug filling process" was invented by Benjamin J. Adams (Medford, Mass.) and Mingfen Tsai (East Greenwich, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic drug substance (DS) fill system is provided, comprising: a plurality of pumps, each configured to fill a respective DS container; a plurality of weighing scales, each configured to measure weights associated with each respective DS container; and a controller configured to: cause each of the plurality of pumps to fill each respective DS container; monitor the weights associated with each respect...