US Patent Issued to Amgen on Dec. 9 for "Apparatuses, systems and methods for plunger-stopper depth measurement in pre-filled syringes" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,943, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Apparatuses, systems and methods for plunger-stopper depth measurement in pre-filled syringes" was invented by Jordan Ray Fine (Ventura, Calif.), Thomas Clark Pearson (Newbury Park, Calif.) and Graham F. Milne (Ventura, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Automatic prefilled syringe inspection systems, apparatus and methods are provided. The automatic syringe inspection systems, apparatus and methods may determine a plunger depth within a syringe that has been pre-filled with a medication. The plunger depth may be based on digital image data that is represen...