ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,201, issued on March 31, was assigned to B. Braun Miethke GmbH & Co. KG (Potsdam, Germany).
"Method and system for providing a therapeutic agent to an implanted infusion device" was invented by Brandon Loudermilk (Potsdam, Germany) and Michael Sorensen (Potsdam, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for refilling a multi-chamber implantable infusion device is presented. The infusion device has a refill chamber which is accessible through an external septum of a refill port. The refill chamber is divided by an inner septum into an upper reservoir and a lower reservoir. The lower refill chamber is refilled with lower reservo...