US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 18 for "System and method for pressure management for a drug delivery device" (Irish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,707, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"System and method for pressure management for a drug delivery device" was invented by Steve Beguin (Rathdrum, Ireland), Michael Yarger (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Simon O'Reilly (Dublin).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device includes a power source, a reservoir configured to receive a fluid, a fluid line in fluid communication with the reservoir, a pump configured to deliver a fluid from the reservoir to the fluid line, and a power limitation subsystem configured to limit a power level supplied to the pump."

The patent was filed on N...