ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,663, issued on May 6, was assigned to Ascendis Pharma A/S (Hellerup, Denmark).
"Front loaded auto injector for administering a medicament" was invented by Paul Erik Fabricius (Holstebro, Denmark), Jan Olesen (Holstebro, Denmark), Steen Jensen (Dragor, Denmark), Henrik Egesborg (Hellerup, Denmark) and Per Molgaard Pedersen (Struer, Denmark).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a method for controlling an auto injector and an auto injector for administering a medicament from a cartridge having a first cartridge end and a second cartridge end and having a cartridge outlet at the first cartridge end, the cartridge comprising a cart...