ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,050, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Infusion pump" was invented by Eduardo Luis Latouche (Chelsea, Mass.), John Richard Bussiere (Littleton, Mass.) and Zhifei Ge (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Infusion pumps including a plurality of reservoirs arranged either serially and/or in parallel with one another are described. In some embodiments, flow channels with a desired arrangement of flow resistances, bypass flow paths, pressure sensors, and/or meniscus control structures may be included in the infusion pump to provide a desired flow of one or more therapeutic compounds into and/or out...