ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,241, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for drug delivery" was invented by Scott R. Gibson (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Xiaotong Li (Simi Valley, Calif.), Nicholas J. Clark (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Carsten Bech (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Daniel Rojecki (Copenhagen, Denmark), Joshua Jay Dudman (Copenhagen, Denmark), Jakob Pedersen (Frederiksberg, Denmark), Jennifer L. Sawicky (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Laura Watson (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery system includes a packaging housing a first component including at least one of a drug product, a d...