ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,433, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Displacement pump mechanism with frangible reservoir, medicament delivery system, patch pump and medicament delivery device" was invented by Nitish Kumar Varma Kunaparaju (Andover, Mass.), Mark Wood (Sterling, Mass.), Dan Yasevac (San Diego) and Khodabakhsh Saeedi (Natick, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medication delivery system including a container, reservoir, or chamber for medium or fluid, and a mechanism or driving components configurable outside of medium or fluid chamber for advancing a plunger to dispense medium or fluid. The system...