ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,277, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Haiming Wu (Melbourn, Great Britain), Alexander Hee-Hanson (Melbourn, Great Britain), William Vespa (Boston), Cedric Delmy (Boston) and Seth Frankel (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a medicament delivery device comprising: a main body arranged to receive a medicament cartridge; a needle for delivery of medicament from the medicament cartridge; a needle cover moveable between an initial position, in which the needle cover covers the needle, and an activated position for dispensing medicament f...