ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,214,179, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).
"Injector device" was invented by Edward Liscio (Bridgewater, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector device includes a housing for receiving a medicament cartridge; a needle unit comprising a needle; and a first sleeve slideable along a longitudinal axis of the housing from a first position, in which the first sleeve conceals the needle, to a second position, in which the needle is exposed from an end of the first sleeve, the first sleeve configured to engage the needle unit so that, during use, movement of the first sleeve from the first position to the second position m...