US Patent Issued to ELI LILLY and Co. on June 17 for "Devices for reconstituting and delivering lyophilized drugs" (Indiana, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,939, issued on June 17, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"Devices for reconstituting and delivering lyophilized drugs" was invented by Alexander Joseph Baker (Somerville, Mass.), Luke Andrew Gibson (Fishers, Ind.), Hemant Thakorbhai Patel (Indianapolis) and Ariel Marie Roberts (Greenwood, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to drug delivery devices, and in particular, to drug delivery devices configured to reconstitute a lyophilized drug powder into liquid form prior to delivery into a patients body. In some embodiments, such devices include a flexible drug reservoir having a proxim...