US Patent Issued to ELI LILLY and Co. on Feb. 18 for "Medication delivery device with sensing system" (Indiana, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,226,619, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"Medication delivery device with sensing system" was invented by Roy Howard Byerly (Indianapolis), Daniel Joseph Nelsen (Central Falls, R.I.), Russell Wayne Perkins (Carmel, Ind.) and Robert Charles Uschold (Leominster, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medication delivery devices are provided having a dose delivery sensing capability. A sensed element is attached to a dose setting member of the device. The sensed element includes surface features radially-spaced from one another. A rotational sensor is attached to an actuator of the device. The rotation...