US Patent Issued to Genzyme on Dec. 2 for "Hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,227, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device" was invented by Iskandar Vasiev (Melbourn, Great Britain), Adam Christopher Nightingale (Cambourne, Great Britain), Tom Alan Oakley (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Haiming Wu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A hold assistance device for use with a medicament delivery device is described. The hold assistance device includes: a housing configured to be coupled to a medicament delivery device; a chamber for containing air, the chamber having a proximal end and a distal end; and a pisto...