ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,457, issued on June 23, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Portable infusion pump" was invented by Eugen Koch (Essel, Germany), Cheng-Jung Yang (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Laura Scholze (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a housing, a compartment inside said housing for positioning a medicament container, an injection needle arranged to said housing, being connectable to said medicament container for delivering a dose of medicament, a manually operated activation mechanism for activating said device, an actuation mechanism operably connected to s...