ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,238, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Modular fluid path assemblies for drug delivery devices" was invented by Scott Robert Gibson (Simi Valley, Calif.), Sudeshna Dutta Ray (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Daniel Eduardo Groszmann (Belmont, Mass.), Mehran Mojarrad (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Nathan Thomas Balcom (Vista, Calif.), Alejandro Campillo-Agusti (Simi Valley, Calif.), Alan D. Payne (Escondido, Calif.) and Lawrence Scott Ring (Laguna Beach, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Modular fluid path assemblies are provided that include conduit, coupling, and needle portions of a fluid path fluidly cou...