US Patent Issued to Hoffman-La Roche on Oct. 21 for "Method of filling degassed drug product into containers and drug product filling device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,448,160, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Hoffman-La Roche Inc. (Little Falls, N.J.).

"Method of filling degassed drug product into containers and drug product filling device" was invented by Julien Boeuf (Mannheim, Germany), Vincent Keehnen (Mannheim, Germany), Natalie Rakel (Mannheim, Germany), Alexander Ulmer (Mannheim, Germany) and Gerald Zieres (Mannheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An inventive drug product filling device for filling a liquid drug product into containers is disclosed. The drug filling device includes a drug product preparer configured for preparing the liquid drug product and a filling station configur...