ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,040, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Auto-injector methods" 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 syri...