US 12,178,991 B2
Wearable injector with sterile adhesive patch
Ali Nekouzadeh, Simi Valley, CA (US); Jerome Olivas, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); Joshua Merilos, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); Matthew Wayne Janke, Simi Valley, CA (US); Justin Harris, Reseda, CA (US); Marc Orloff, Calabasas, CA (US); Edward Stapleford Nielsen, Ventura, CA (US); Chitra Nadig, Chatsworth, CA (US); Yasaman Damestani, Thousand Oaks, CA (US); Guojie Song, Moorpark, CA (US); and Bryton De Guia, Newbury Park, CA (US)
Assigned to AMGEN INC., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Filed by AMGEN INC., Thousand Oaks, CA (US)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/359,825.
Application 17/359,825 is a division of application No. 16/049,850, filed on Jul. 31, 2018, granted, now 11,077,246.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/547,500, filed on Aug. 18, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0008652 A1, Jan. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. A61M 5/142 (2006.01); A61M 5/20 (2006.01)
CPC A61M 5/14248 (2013.01) [A61M 5/20 (2013.01); A61M 2005/14252 (2013.01); A61M 2005/14264 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0205 (2013.01); A61M 2205/0238 (2013.01); A61M 2205/50 (2013.01); A61M 2205/58 (2013.01); A61M 2205/587 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of preparing a drug delivery device for use, the method comprising:
providing an adhesive patch, the adhesive patch including an area contained within an outer perimeter, the area having an upper surface, an adhesive lower surface, and an edge surface at the outer perimeter between the upper surface and the lower surface, a bacteria impermeable lower liner on the lower surface, and a bacteria impermeable sterility margin surrounding the edge surface and including a sealing edge, physically coupling to or abutting the edge surface, that forms a seal between the bacteria impermeable sterility margin and the edge surface;
providing a sub-assembly of a drug delivery device comprising an insertion mechanism;
adhering the upper surface of the adhesive patch to the drug delivery device or the sub-assembly of the drug delivery device.