US Patent Issued to Portal Instruments on July 1 for "Rotary motor based transdermal injection device" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,506, issued on July 1, was assigned to Portal Instruments Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Rotary motor based transdermal injection device" was invented by Robert J. Dyer (Cambridge, Mass.), Carl Tappan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Eric VanWyk (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for injectate delivery includes a cartridge, a linear actuator, a rotary motor mechanically coupled the actuator, and a controller coupled to the motor. The controller controls a linear motion of the actuator by controlling an electrical input supplied to the motor in a first interval during which the motor is stationary with the linear actuator e...