US 12,239,817 B2
Apparatus for and method in direct drug infusion using a label as a hanger
Kai Zheng, Foster City, CA (US); Edward Porock, San Francisco, CA (US); Mahesh Khurana, San Bruno, CA (US); Geoffrey Colin Wise, San Jose, CA (US); Lorenzo Myles Paredes Pesino, San Francisco, CA (US); Michelle Hatch, San Antonio, TX (US); Stefan Yohe, San Francisco, CA (US); and Raffaella Claudia Bondi, Basel (CH)
Assigned to Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US); and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Little Falls, NJ (US)
Appl. No. 17/795,506
Filed by Genentech, Inc., South San Francisco, CA (US); and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc., Little Falls, NJ (US)
PCT Filed Jan. 26, 2021, PCT No. PCT/US2021/015130
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/154755, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 5, 2021.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/966,495, filed on Jan. 27, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0095587 A1, Mar. 30, 2023
Int. Cl. A61M 5/14 (2006.01); A61J 1/14 (2023.01); A61M 5/142 (2006.01); B65D 23/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/1417 (2013.01) [A61J 1/1412 (2013.01); A61M 5/142 (2013.01); B65D 23/005 (2013.01); A61M 2005/1402 (2013.01)] 18 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method, comprising:
infusing, via an infusion pump, an infusion line with a first quantity of saline;
removing a vial cap from a vial containing a drug, wherein the vial comprises a stopper at a top portion thereof, and further wherein the vial cap is configured to cover the stopper;
piercing the stopper with an infusion line spike at a proximal end of the infusion line;
opening, from a label adhered to the vial, a movable hanger into a loop configuration, wherein the movable hanger is formed from a portion of the label and is configured to move from a closed configuration into the loop configuration;
hanging the vial, via the movable hanger, from an infusion stand; and
opening an air venting cap on the infusion line spike.