ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,560, issued on July 14, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).
"Injection molded cannula system" was invented by Christian Freitag (Weinolsheim, Germany) and Mads Bjoern Rasmussen (Weinheim, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a cannula system including a soft cannula 10 and a cannula holder for holding the soft cannula. The cannula holder has a compressor and a body. 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 o...