ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,819, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Antares Pharma Inc. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Injector" was invented by Michael Travanty (S. Minneapolis, Minn.) and Steven W. Mattix (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector including: a housing, a cap detachably coupled to the housing, a ram assembly having a ram configured to pressurize a medicament container for expelling a medicament therefrom, the ram assembly including a trigger engagement member, an energy source associated with the ram for powering the ram to expel medicament from the medicament container, a trigger member disposed about an axis, the trigger member moveab...