ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,148, issued on May 13, was assigned to Ascendis Pharma A/S (Hellerup, Denmark).

"Auto injector with temperature control" was invented by Per Molgaard Pedersen (Struer, Denmark), Steen Jensen (Dragor, Denmark), Henrik Egesborg (Hellerup, Denmark) and Bjorn Knud Andersen (Struer, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is an auto injector and a method for administering a medicament. The auto injector comprising: a housing; a cartridge receiver; a drive module coupled to move a plunger rod configured to move a first stopper; a temperature sensor configured to provide a temperature signal indicative of the temperature of the med...