ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,329, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Manta MedTech LLC.

"Drug delivery device actuated using lead screw and motor" was invented by Raju S. Dave (Gaithersburg, Md.), Xing Su (Santa Clara, Calif.), Himanshu Verma (McLean, Va.), Ashish Shah (East Amherst, N.Y.), Kenta Alten (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Krishna Chittur Ranganathan Shastri (Thane, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is described. The system comprises an active wearable medical device (AWMD), a fluid chamber, and a channel for delivering a drug. The AWMD comprises a drug chamber, a motor chamber, a piston, an electronic module, and a permeability module. Th...