US Patent Issued to BIOREM on Sept. 30 for "Self-injector" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,258, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to BIOREM AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Self-injector" was invented by Josef Felber (Zollikon, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The auto-injector contains a torsion spring with stored energy for administration of a liquid active substance. It has a housing with a holder for securing an insertable syringe with barrel, sealing plug and needle, the active substance of which it can discharge hydraulically when triggered to do so. The piston in the barrel can be actuated by a pivot lever articulated on a piston slide guided along a rail in the housing. The other end of the pivot lever is articul...