US Patent Issued to SENSILE MEDICAL on July 21 for "Drug delivery device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,814, issued on July 21, was assigned to SENSILE MEDICAL AG (Olten, Switzerland).

"Drug delivery device" was invented by Pascal Lagorgette (Bienne, Switzerland) and Fabian Burli (Stusslingen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure provides a drug delivery device (1) comprising a housing (2), a delivery unit (3), a drive unit (4) and a pumping system, the delivery unit comprising a subcutaneous delivery system (6) and a needle actuator system (7), the subcutaneous delivery system comprising a slidable needle support (10) and an injection needle mounted to the slidable needle support, the needle support movable with ...