ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,493, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"System and method for operating controller of delivery device having swipe and tap to confirm feature" was invented by Margaret Anne Jacobi (Newton, Mass.), Sonya Mead (Newton, Mass.), David John Siedzik (Hamilton, Mass.), Tony Hai Nguyen (Hopkinton, Mass.), Ping Zheng (Acton, Mass.), Clinton James Goyette (Princeton, Mass.), Justin David Cumming (Arlington, Mass.), Thomas Frank Kinst (Hillsborough, N.J.), Marc Clifford Vogt (Rye, N.H.) and J. Richard Gyory (Sudbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical device controller is provided th...