US Patent Issued to INSULET on Aug. 4 for "Drug delivery device including pump with floating microneedle assembly" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,472, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Drug delivery device including pump with floating microneedle assembly" was invented by Maureen McCaffrey (Arlington, Mass.), Steven Cardinali (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Jason O'Connor (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to techniques, processes, devices or systems including a floating microneedle assembly decoupled from the device and protected by a pump housing. In one approach, a wearable drug delivery device may include a pump housing including a base attachable to a user, and a microneedle assembly coupled to a ...