US Patent Issued to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland on July 15 for "Grasper for a needle sheath, cap, autoinjector and method of producing a grasper" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,770, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Grasper for a needle sheath, cap, autoinjector and method of producing a grasper" was invented by Thomas Mark Kemp (Ashwell Hertfordshire, Great Britain), Louise Hodgson (Stevenage Herts, Great Britain) and George Sykes (Melbourn Herts, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure refers to a grasper for a needle sheath removably arranged over a needle, wherein the grasper comprises a grasping carrier formed of a sheet and multiply bent along a plurality of longitudinal fold edges to form a plurality of carrier portio...