ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,152, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Supplementary device for a manually operable injection device" was invented by Andre Baran (Steinfurt, Germany), Kay Behrendt (Bad Bentheim, Germany) and Erich Rittenbacher (Vienna).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a supplementary device a supplementary device for a manually operable injection device. The supplementary device has a body defining a passage through which an injection device is slidable, and a securing unit to secure the body to the injection device in the specific position when the inject...