US Patent Issued to MannKind on July 7 for "Fluid delivery device" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,153, issued on July 7, was assigned to MannKind Corp. (Danbury, Conn.).

"Fluid delivery device" was invented by Robert R. Gonnelli (Mahwah, N.J.) and Steven F. Levesque (North Pembroke, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid delivery device comprises a housing having a fluid reservoir. A needle is in fluid communication with the fluid reservoir in an engaged position and out of fluid communication with the fluid reservoir in armed and storage positions. A proximal end of a biasing member is coupled to the housing and a distal end of the biasing member is configured to deliver a force to the fluid reservoir. A piston member exten...