ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,672, issued on March 3, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Fluid interconnection scheme between reservoir, pump and filling member" was invented by Alessandro Pizzochero (Chelmsford, Mass.), J. Richard Gyory (Sudbury, Mass.), Joseph Iskandar (Allston, Mass.) and Charles Hwang (Wellesley, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A filling member in a medicament delivery device, the filling member comprising a first conduit that fluidly communicates with a reservoir, and a second conduit that fluidly communicates with a pump and with the first conduit, wherein the filling member provides two-way medicament fl...