ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,597, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Galderma Holding SA (Zug, Switzerland).
"Track-indexed syringe" was invented by Jonas Tornsten (Uppsala, Sweden), Max Blomqvist (Uppsala, Sweden) and Pekka Niskala (Torshalla, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a finger grip (1) arranged to be connected to a syringe barrel having a plunger and a plunger rod for driving said plunger. The finger grip comprises a body having a lower side with finger supporting surfaces (13) for supporting fingers of a user during handling and an engagement member (5) being moveable between an inactive position where the engageme...