Devices and methods for wearable injection guides

US9199044B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Elwha LLC · US

Inventors

• Mahalaxmi Gita Bangera · Renton, US
• Edward S. Boyden · Sharon, US
• Gregory J. Della Rocca · Columbia, US
• Daniel Hawkins · Pleasanton, US
• Roderick A. Hyde · Redmond, US
• Muriel Y. Ishikawa · Livermore, US
• Jordin T. Kare · Seattle, US
• Robert Langer · Newton, US
• Eric C. Leuthardt · Chesterfield, US
• Stephen L. Malaska · Redmond, US
• Terence Myckatyn · Chesterfield, US
• Parag Jitendra Parikh · Chesterfield, US
• Dennis J. Rivet · Chesapeake, US
• Joshua S. Shimony · Chesterfield, US
• Michael A. Smith · Phoenix, US
• Elizabeth A. Sweeney · Seattle, US
• Clarence T. Tegreene · Bellevue, US
• Sharon L. Wolda · Seattle, US
• Lowell L. Wood, JR. · Bellevue, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 6, 2012
• Grant date: Dec 1, 2015
• Expiry date: Oct 28, 2033

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/49007
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Wearable injection guides and manufacture and use thereof are described, which include: a rigid material formed to substantially conform in shape to a topography of a body region of an individual, the rigid material substantially impenetrable to an injection needle, and the rigid material including one or more injection needle access regions arranged in a treatment pattern.