US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 28 for "Delivery device with cam driven peristaltic pump" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,215, issued on July 28, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Delivery device with cam driven peristaltic pump" was invented by Bo Yang Yu (Winchester, Mass.), Alessandro Pizzochero (Chelmsford, Mass.), J. Richard Gyory (Sudbury, Mass.) and Mark Wood (Sterling, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A delivery device for delivering medicament, such as insulin, to a patient includes a housing and a base enclosing an inner cavity. Enclosed within the housing is a reservoir for containing a medicament, a delivery mechanism for delivering the medicament to the patient, and a pump in fluid communication with the ...