ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,593, issued on April 29, was assigned to Intervet Inc. (Rahway, N.J.).
"Device for administering a fluid" was invented by Frank Altermann (Tuttlingen, Germany), Dominic Kamenzin (Eigeltingen-Reute, Germany), Manuel Mattes (Spaichingen, Germany), Robin Sauter (Tuttlingen, Germany), Thomas Schmidt (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Daniel Seeh (Immendingen, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for administering a fluid is provided, with a cylinder (16, 116) which has an open dispensing end (17), a piston (36) which is displaceable between a front end position and a rear end position in the cylinder (16, 116) and is connected to a pist...