ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,613, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).
"Implantable drug delivery port" was invented by Lloyd V. Hansen (Hugo, Minn.), Cynthia Nelson Konen (Zimmerman, Minn.), Luis E. Fesser (St. Paul, Minn.), John P. Mehawej (Plymouth, Minn.) and Todd Hanson (Blaine, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery port including a port housing having an inner sidewall defining a fill port cavity and a fill port washer in direct contact with a perimeter edge of the inner sidewall of the port housing such that an intersection between the washer and the perimeter edge define a plurality of filter channels having a c...