ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,495, issued on July 1, was assigned to Bigfoot Biomedical Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Devices, systems, and methods for estimating active medication from injections" was invented by John Sjolund (Los Altos, Calif.), Ambika Srinath (San Francisco), Andrew Bochenko (Redwood City, Calif.), George Crothall (Oceanside, Calif.), Bryan Mazlish (Palo Alto, Calif.), Jennifer Martin Block (Menlo Park, Calif.), Sarah Matarese (San Jose, Calif.), Linda Mackowiak (Cazenovia, N.Y.) and Lane Desborough (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more embodiments relate, generally, to a reusable accessory for a medication injection pen...