ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,539, issued on April 21, was assigned to PassPort Technologies Inc. (San Diego).

"Methods and systems for delivering drugs through skin of a body" was invented by Hirotoshi Adachi (San Diego), Uros Kascak (La Jolla, Calif.), Shohei Horie (San Diego), Joe Hua (Rosemead, Calif.) and Arjun Singh Bhungal (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A transdermal permeant delivery system for delivery of at least one permeant into a tissue membrane of a subject comprises a filament array having a plurality of filaments that are disposed in a poration area and configured to deliver thermal energy to the tissue membrane to form a plurality of ...