US Patent Issued to Genentech, Hoffmann-La Roche on March 4 for "Apparatus for and method in direct drug infusion using a label as a hanger" (American, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,817, issued on March 4, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.) and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Apparatus for and method in direct drug infusion using a label as a hanger" was invented by Kai Zheng (Foster City, Calif.), Edward Porock (San Francisco), Mahesh Khurana (San Bruno, Calif.), Geoffrey Colin Wise (San Jose, Calif.), Lorenzo Myles Paredes Pesino (San Francisco), Michelle Hatch (San Antonio), Stefan Yohe (San Francisco) and Raffaella Claudia Bondi (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for direct drug infusion from a vial to a patient are provided. A m...