ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,265, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Hold assistance device" was invented by Iskandar Vasiev (Melbourn, Great Britain), Kiara May-Leen Taylor (Cambridge, Great Britain), Adam Christopher Nightingale (Cambridge, Great Britain), Tom Alan Oakley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Joel John Williams (Cambridge, Great Britain), Matthew Christopher Latham (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 first support configured to be fixedly couple...