ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,321, issued on July 29, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Awakening electronics in an injection device" was invented by Michael Schabbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Johannes Alpers (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ganesh Appusamy Vedhachalam (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jorg Bigalke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Martin Rausch (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Anna Baccaro (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device comprising: an energy source configured to power an electronic system of the injection device; one or more sensors in communication with the energy source, the one or more sensors configur...