US Patent Issued to Bayer on July 15 for "Long acting drug delivery device and its use in contraception" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,563, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bayer Oy (Turku, Finland).

"Long acting drug delivery device and its use in contraception" was invented by Svante Holmberg (Turku, Finland) and Christine Talling (Turku, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for altering the release characteristics of a long acting drug delivery device containing at least two drugs in different segments, wherein the segments are arranged to a specific sequence.The invention furthermore relates to a drug delivery device with reduced initial burst containing two different drugs in different segments.The invention further relates...