US Patent Issued to INSULET on Feb. 17 for "Automated insulin delivery system using pramlintide" (Massachusetts, California, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,619, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Automated insulin delivery system using pramlintide" was invented by Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.), Jason O'Connor (Acton, Mass.), Yibin Zheng (Hartland, Wis.) and Ashutosh Zade (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for the delivery of insulin and pramlintide using an automated insulin delivery system. In a first embodiment, a drug delivery system is configured to deliver independent doses of insulin and pramlintide. The system monitors the user's blood glucose level and determines when a meal is been ingested and, in res...