ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,304, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to TARIS Biomedical LLC (Lexington, Mass.).

"Drug delivery devices with drug-permeable component and methods" was invented by Heejin Lee (Bedford, Mass.), Karen Daniel (Newton, Mass.) and Matthew Sansone (Dracut, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implantable drug delivery devices include a housing having a closed drug reservoir lumen bounded by a first wall structure and a hydrophilic second wall structure, and a drug contained in the drug reservoir lumen, wherein the first wall structure is impermeable to the drug and the second wall structure is permeable to the drug. Methods of providing co...