ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,672, issued on May 20, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Drug delivery device with feedback mechanism" was invented by Thomas Mark Kemp (Ashwell, Great Britain) and Hugo Revellat (Royston, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device comprising: a case adapted to hold a medicament container, a plunger disposed within the case and slidable from a proximal position into a distal position for delivering a medicament from the medicament container, at least one feedback mechanism that is in operative connection with the plunger, the feedback mech...