ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,465, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Injection molded cannula system" was invented by Mads Bjoern Rasmussen (Weinheim, Germany) and Christian Freitag (Weinolsheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a cannula system having a soft cannula and a cannula unit for holding the soft cannula. The cannula unit includes a compressor and a body, and the body contains a mounting structure and a cavity for holding a septum. The soft cannula is threaded on the mounting structure. Furthermore, the compressor circumferentially surrounds the mounting structure and at least parts of the body...