ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,417, issued on March 25, was assigned to CEQUR SA (Horw, Switzerland).

"Devices and methods for providing a bolus dose in a microfluidic circuit of a pump" was invented by Hermanus Stephanus Pretorius (Derry, N.H.), Robert Farra (Acton, Mass.), Kenneth Barnett (Waltham, Mass.), David Piper (Leominster, Mass.), Russell Ford (Palo Alto, Calif.), Edward G. Solomon (Menlo Park, Calif.), Peter Holst (Los Altos, Calif.) and Lawrence Smith (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods for administering a medication in fluid form, the systems and methods including a basal flow path and a bolus flow path in parallel to t...