US Patent Issued to INSULET on Sept. 29 for "Establishing and maintaining vacuum in the reservoir of a drug delivery device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,327, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Establishing and maintaining vacuum in the reservoir of a drug delivery device" was invented by Maureen Mccaffrey (Arlington, Mass.), Soroush Kamrava (Everett, Mass.) and Ian Mclaughlin (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are structures for ensuring that the reservoir of drug delivery device is free from any residual air before the device is filled with a liquid drug and put into use. The structures described herein are designed to prevent air from entering the reservoir during the pendency of a shelf life of the drug delivery device a...