ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,476, issued on July 8, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Systems, components, and combinations thereof for pen-type injection devices" was invented by Michael Quinn (Gladstone, N.J.), Richard Cronenberg (Gladstone, N.J.), Robert Boyer (Gladstone, N.J.) and Alexander Gorshkov (Gladstone, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides driver components, systems and drive methods that facilitate improved dose setting, correcting, and/or dispensing in a multiple use pen-type injection device. In particular, various novel braking systems are disclosed that can be implemented within the pen-type ...