US Patent Issued to ELI LILLY and Co. on Aug. 25 for "Oral drug delivery device with expanding arms" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,666, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"Oral drug delivery device with expanding arms" was invented by Maria Fernandez-Martos Balson (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Matthew Keith Fordham (Essex, Great Britain), Jack Alexander Hornsby (Bedfordshire, Great Britain), Nikolaos Sotirios Vasilakis (Hertfordshire, Great Britain) and Sarah Louise Clark (Somerville, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a drug delivery device. The drug delivery device is taken orally by a patient, and then activates within the gastrointestinal (GI) tract of the patient. Upon activation, re...