US Patent Issued to Genzyme on April 15 for "Collar hold detent mechanism and lock for injection devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,872, issued on April 15, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Collar hold detent mechanism and lock for injection devices" was invented by Alexander Hee-Hanson (Melbourn, Great Britain), Thomas Lever (Melbourn, Great Britain), Michael Parrott (Melbourn, Great Britain) and Robert Wilson (Melbourn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application relates to an injector device for delivery of a medicament, particularly to an auto-injector device. According to a first aspect of this disclosure, there is described an injection device comprising: an injection device body; a needle shroud retractable into the injec...