ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,580, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Michael Schabbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Beate Franke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Andrew Nelson (Dallas), Giuliano Pradel (Besana in Brianza, Italy), Stefan Verlaak (Paderno d'Adda, Italy) and Ilario Melzi (Milan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a medicament delivery device. The medicament delivery device comprises a housing, a dispensing mechanism and an actuator. The housing has first and second portions. The dispensing mechanism comprises a reser...