ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,477, issued on July 8, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).
"Dose sensing mechanism in a medication delivery device" was invented by Nicola Antonio Alagia (Desio, Italy), Roy Howard Byerly (Indianapolis), Rossano Claudio Massari (Lissone, Italy) and Russell Wayne Perkins (Carmel, Ind.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Medication delivery devices, sensing systems, and methods are disclosed for determining the relative axial and rotational movements of its members to determine the amount of a dose set and/or delivered by the medication delivery device. A sensing system comprises a barrel sensor system, a drive sleeve senso...