US Patent Issued to LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme on May 26 for "Microneedle array, molding for manufacturing a microneedle array, and method for manufacturing a microneedle array" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,474, issued on May 26, was assigned to LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG (Andernach, Germany).

"Microneedle array, molding for manufacturing a microneedle array, and method for manufacturing a microneedle array" was invented by Miriam Britten (Andernach, Germany), Natasha Gannon (Koblenz, Germany) and Jorg Bender (Cologne, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microneedle array has a plurality of microneedles, said microneedles being supported by a substrate. In order to improve the properties of the microneedle array, the substrate is in the form of a grid structure or comprises a grid structure."

The patent was filed on Jan. 22, 2...