US Patent Issued to MannKind on Sept. 15 for "Time delay mechanism for a hydraulic drug delivery device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,291, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to MannKind Corp. (Danbury, Conn.).

"Time delay mechanism for a hydraulic drug delivery device" was invented by Christopher Gregory (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Geoffrey Jenkins (Dartmouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device may comprise a medicament chamber configured to hold a medicament, a plunger configured to move relative to the medicament chamber to expel the medicament from the medicament chamber, a pin configured to move from a first pin position wherein the pin prevents movement of the plunger to a second pin position wherein the pin allows movement of the plun...