ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,594, issued on June 3, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"On-body interlock for drug delivery device" was invented by David Nazzaro (Groveland, Mass.), Ian McLaughlin (Groton, Mass.), Simon Kozin (Lexington, Mass.), Maureen McCaffrey (Arlington, Mass.), Jackie Mac (Malden, Mass.), Alexander Doudoumopoulos (Boxborough, Mass.) and Bhavin Patel (Franklin Park, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable drug delivery device that can deliver a liquid drug stored in a container to a patient is provided. The container can be a prefilled cartridge that can be loaded into the drug delivery device by the patient or that can be p...