US Patent Issued to Ypsomed on July 14 for "Drug delivery device with an improved mechanism for controlling the delivery rate" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,559, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Drug delivery device with an improved mechanism for controlling the delivery rate" was invented by Bernhard Rytz (Zollbruck, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device including a reservoir configured to contain a fluid to be delivered by advancing a piston in the reservoir at an advancement speed defining a delivery rate for the medicament. The device further includes an electric motor configured to drive the delivery mechanism by rotation to advance the piston at the advancement speed. The device further includes a control unit that ...