ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,720, issued on June 17, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Dosing systems and approaches" was invented by Chia-Jung Wu (Redondo Beach, Calif.), Nicholas J. Clark (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Ronak Maheshwari (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Heather N. Franey (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery system includes a delivery container, a first drug insertion port, at least one additional drug insertion port, and an IV connection port. The delivery container includes upper, lower, first side, and second side portions, and further includes a tapered region extending between the first side portion and the...