ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,270, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to INSULET Corp. (Acton, Mass.).

"Optimizing embedded formulations for drug delivery" was invented by Joon Bok Lee (Acton, Mass.), Yibin Zheng (Hartland, Wis.), Jason O'Connor (Acton, Mass.) and Ashutosh Zade (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a method for execution by a drug delivery device for determining an optimal dose of a liquid drug for current cycle of a medication delivery algorithm, the method utilizing a stepwise evaluation of a model and a cost function across a coarse search space consisting of coarse discrete quantities of the drug and a refined search spa...