ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,247, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Auto-injector" was invented by Simon Francis Brereton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Kemp (Ashwell, Great Britain), Rosie Burnell (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew Ekman (Cheshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) is present having a tubular chassis telescopable in a tubular case, a carrier subassembly comprising a tubular carrier slidably arranged relative to the chassis inside the case, where the carrier is adapted to contain a syringe with a...