ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,742, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Medtronic MiniMed Inc. (Northridge, Canada).
"Injection pens for medicine administration" was invented by Eric A. Larson (Simi Valley, Calif.), Yuxiang Zhong (Arcadia, Calif.), Ellis Garai (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Jack D. Pryor (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Afshin Bazargan (Simi Valley, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicine injection pen includes a body, a drive member, a cartridge housing, and a medicine cartridge retained within the cartridge housing. The drive member is configured to move relative to the body and the medicine cartridge defines an interior volume configured to retain...