US Patent Issued to The Methodist Hospital on June 24 for "Method and apparatus for the fail-safe termination of in vivo drug delivery from an implantable drug delivery system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,141, issued on June 24, was assigned to The Methodist Hospital (Houston).

"Method and apparatus for the fail-safe termination of in vivo drug delivery from an implantable drug delivery system" was invented by Marco Farina (Houston), Robert Lyle Hood (Houston) and Alessandro Grattoni (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for the fail-safe termination of in vivo drug delivery from an implantable drug delivery system, the method comprising: providing an implantable drug delivery system comprising: a housing having a reservoir for containing a drug, and a port for dispensing the drug to a patient; and an emergency deactivation...