ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,927, issued on April 22, was assigned to Bigfoot Biomedical Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Dose measurement system and method" was invented by Richard Whalley (Cambridge, Mass.) and James White (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments described herein generally relate to devices, systems and methods for measuring the dose remaining in a drug delivery device that is used for delivering a dose to a patient. In some embodiments, a dose measurement system for measuring the liquid volume in a container includes a plurality of light sources which are disposed and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation toward the contain...