ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,505, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Skin-mountable medical device" was invented by Marc Arnold (Hesse, Germany), Christian Freitag (Weinolsheim, Germany) and Mads Bjoern Rasmussen (Weinheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin-mountable medical device having a mounting plate having a bottom side attachable to the skin of a user and a medical module, in particular, an analyte sensing device or a drug administration pump. A snap connector releasably attaches the medical module on the upper side of the mounting plate. The snap connector has a release flap that can be actuated by th...