US Patent Issued to Amgen on July 15 for "Needle shield removers, drug delivery devices, and related methods" (Danish Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,769, issued on July 15, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Needle shield removers, drug delivery devices, and related methods" was invented by Jan Jensen (Copenhagen, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Needle shield removers, drug delivery devices, and associated methods are provided that include a tubular body formed from a sheet with a closure having from a plurality of teeth extending laterally outwardly from one longitudinal edge of the sheet and a plurality of grooves extending laterally inwardly into the sheet of material from a second longitudinal edge of the sheet. The plurality of teeth are frictionally...