US Patent Issued to West Pharmaceutical Services on Oct. 28 for "Packaging system for small-volume aseptic filling" (Virginia, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,378, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to West Pharmaceutical Services Inc. (Exton, Pa.).

"Packaging system for small-volume aseptic filling" was invented by John Dinka (Doylestown, Pa.), Eric Claude (Vienna, Va.), Robert A. Carlton (Lowell, Mass.), Lynessa Erler (Burke, Va.), Kathleen McHugh (Alexandria, Va.) and Maria Pascale (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A packaging system for sealing a medicine container having a filling opening with a stopper includes a container tray having a container cell for receiving and stabilizing the medicine container. A shuttle has an exterior surface and an interior surface. The interior su...