ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,945, issued on June 17, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).

"Dose recording device" was invented by Stephan Riedel (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Matthias Felber (Will, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dose recording device for a drug delivery device, wherein the drug delivery device comprises a housing, a cartridge holder configured to receive a cartridge for holding a plurality of doses of a drug, and a dose setting member connected to the housing and configured to set the dose of the drug, is disclosed. The dose recording device comprises a device housing and a measurement system having an optical sensor connected to a p...