ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,664, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to LTS Lohmann Therapie-Systeme AG (Andernach, Germany).
"Mold element for manufacturing microstructures" was invented by Andreas Henning (Koblenz, Germany), Sebastian Scherr (Neuhausel, Germany) and Stefan Erlhofer (Kempenich, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mold element, in particular a casting mold for manufacturing microstructures, in particular microneedle arrays, includes a base body. On an upper side of the base body, several depressions for receiving material for manufacturing the microstructure are provided. In order to improve the quality of the microstructure to be manufactured, ...