US Patent Issued to INSULET on Sept. 2 for "Infusion pump assembly and method" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,257, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Infusion pump assembly and method" was invented by Mark C. Estes (Malibu, Calif.), Wenkang Qi (Cupertino, Calif.) and David Thrower (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of an infusion pump assembly may be equipped with one or more components to facilitate wireless operation of an infusion pump via a user-operated mobile device. In some embodiments, the mobile device and/or the infusion pump may prompt the user to confirm acceptance of a wirelessly communicated command to prevent an operation by the infusion pump (e.g., a dispensation o...