US Patent Issued to Ypsomed on Aug. 4 for "Assembly for a cartridge needle insertion mechanism" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,432, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Assembly for a cartridge needle insertion mechanism" was invented by Stefan Burren (Schwarzenburg, Switzerland), Mario Bernhard (Burgdorf, Switzerland), Andres Mellenberger (Koppigen, Switzerland), Markus Tschirren (Burgdorf, Switzerland), Susanne Schenker (Aarwangen, Switzerland) and Christian Schrul (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a cartridge needle insertion mechanism includes a housing, a cartridge needle defining a cartridge needle axis and a cartridge closed by a septum. A cartridge needle slider is linearly guided b...