ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,764, issued on July 15, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Attachment mechanism, module and assembly herewith" was invented by Paul Hayton (Bristol, Great Britain), Michael Jugl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ralph Donald Quentin Collings (Bristol, Great Britain), Jakub Sekula (Bristol, Great Britain) and Martin Vitt (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is generally directed to an attachment mechanism suitable for attaching for example a module to an object that is essentially cylindrical or polygonal in cross-section, e.g. to a portion of a drug delivery device. Further, the disclosure is di...