US Patent Issued to PATIENTS PENDING on Nov. 11 for "Cover for liquid delivery system with integrated plunger position sensing using focused optical beam and linear potentiometer" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,696, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to PATIENTS PENDING LTD. (London).

"Cover for liquid delivery system with integrated plunger position sensing using focused optical beam and linear potentiometer" was invented by Avraham Shekalim (Nesher, Israel) and Noam Peleg (Gan Ner, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sliding cover for a liquid delivery device, such as a cap (100) for a pen injector (200), incorporates a set of sensors including an optical sensor (110) with an output which changes during uncapping or capping motions on passing of a plunger (220) of the pen injector. This output is used together with a position sensor (120...