US Patent Issued to INSULET on Nov. 25 for "Methods and systems for sterilizing sealed components of a drug delivery device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,738, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Methods and systems for sterilizing sealed components of a drug delivery device" was invented by Steven Cardinali (Tewksbury, Mass.) and Kyle Breingan (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluid delivery devices with sterilization management systems are described. For example, a fluid delivery device may include a device region fluidically coupled to a fluid path, the fluid path having at least one opening to allow a sterilization source to flow into the device region, an exposure valve arranged in the fluid path and configured to seal or unseal the at lea...