ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,273, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Auto-injector" was invented by Matthew Ekman (Cheshire, Great Britain), Timothy Donald Barrow-Williams (St. Albans Herts, Great Britain) and Yannick Hourmand (Haslingfield, 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 includes an elongate housing arranged to contain a syringe with a hollow needle and a stopper for sealing the syringe and displacing the medicament, the housing having a distal end and a proximal end with an orifice intended to be applied against an inje...