ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,159, issued on June 24, 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) and Robert Wilson (Melbourn, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device includes a needle disposed at a distal end of the medicament delivery device, a body for a syringe, and a needle cover axially movable relative to the body between an extended position in which the needle cover covers the needle and a retracted position for dispensing medicament from the ...