ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,492, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MannKind Corp. (Danbury, Conn.).

"Communication accessory for a drug delivery device" was invented by Christopher Gregory (Hopkinton, Mass.), Geoffrey Jenkins (Dartmouth, Mass.) and Matthew Johnson (Boylston, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery assembly comprises a delivery device configured to deliver medicament to a user, a communication accessory releasably coupled to the delivery device, and one or more sensors configured to sense a condition of the delivery device. The communication accessory may be configured to receive a first signal from the one or more sensors as...