US Patent Issued to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland on Sept. 2 for "Medicament delivery device and actuation mechanism for a drug delivery device" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,258, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Medicament delivery device and actuation mechanism for a drug delivery device" was invented by Stephan Riedel (Frankfurt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an actuation mechanism for a medicament delivery device having a needle with a distal tip. The actuation mechanism comprises an outer sleeve telescopically relative to the delivery device and an inner sleeve telescopically arranged relative to the outer sleeve. The outer sleeve is axially translatable relative to the delivery device, and the inner sleeve is axia...