ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,367, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Alexander Hee-Hanson (Melbourn, Great Britain), Thomas Lever (Melbourn, Great Britain), Michael Parrott (Melbourn, Great Britain), Robert Wilson (Melbourn, Great Britain) and Haiming Wu (Weston, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device comprising: a proximal end and a distal end defining a longitudinal axis; a body; a button arranged at the proximal end and configured to actuate the medicament delivery device; and a lock ring configured to rotate relative to the body about the longitudinal axis...