ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,147, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Auto-injector" was invented by Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, Great Britain), Timothy Donald Barrow-Williams (Herts, Great Britain) and Matthew Ekman (Cheshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the invention, an auto-injector for administering a dose of a liquid medicament (M) comprises of a substantially cylindrical housing arranged to contain a pre-filled syringe filled with the medicament (M), a needle shroud slidably arranged with respect to the housing and adapted to rest on the skin of a patient recei...