ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,126, issued on May 13, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc..
"Wearable micropump for therapeutic drug delivery" was invented by Marcello Peppi (Medford, Mass.) and Ernest Soonho Kim (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a system for the delivery of therapeutic substances to the cavities of a patient. The system can include a wearable micropump that is fluidically coupled with a handpiece. The handpiece can be inserted, for example, into the middle ear via a surgical tympanotomy approach. The system can enable a controlled injection of a therapeutic substance directly int...