US Patent Issued to Amgen on Sept. 8 for "Needle insertion mechanism for drug delivery device" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,199, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Needle insertion mechanism for drug delivery device" was invented by Tohid Pirbodaghi (Cambridge, Mass.), Samin Akbari (Cambridge, Mass.), Joshua Tamsky (Los Angeles), Paul Daniel Faucher (Escondido, Calif.), Scott Robert Gibson (Simi Valley, Calif.) and Sheldon B. Moberg (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, and a needle insertion mechanism (NIM). The container has an inner volume to contain a medicament which is urged out of the containe...