ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,729, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to IPV (Seoul, South Korea).

"Drug discharge assembly and drug injection device comprising same" was invented by Jesse Jae Jin Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yong Joon Han (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a drug discharge assembly including a drive piece linearly reciprocated along one direction, a rotating unit being in contact with an end of the drive piece and rotating in one direction according to a linear reciprocating motion of the drive piece, a flexible tube disposed adjacent to the rotating unit and having a curved section at least par...