US Patent Issued to Genzyme on Dec. 23 for "Collar cam lock for injection devices" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,482, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Collar cam 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: "According to a first aspect of this disclosure, there is described an injection device includes: a body; a needle shroud retractable into the body including a shroud pin; a collar rotatable with respect to the body and including a cam track engageable with the shroud pin. The cam track includes: a first po...