US Patent Issued to Medtronic on Sept. 8 for "Implantable microsphere reservoir" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,194, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Implantable microsphere reservoir" was invented by Jeffrey P. Bodner (Plymouth, Minn.), Touby A. Drew (Golden Valley, Minn.), Nicholas Whitehead (Lake Elmo, Minn.) and J. Michael Gray (Brooklyn Park, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery system including an implantable reservoir containing drug microspheres, with an innocuous fluid flushed through the implantable microsphere reservoir to form a drug containing solution for delivery within a body of a patient."

The patent was filed on Jan. 12, 2022, under Application No. 17/573,724.

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