ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,337,144, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Michael Schabbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Beate Franke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Giuliano Pradel (Besana in Brianza, Italy) and Andrew Nelson (Dallas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device includes a device housing for placing on skin of a patient, the device housing including a needle aperture; a needle for injecting 5 a medicament, the needle arranged to pass through the needle aperture; and sensors configured to provide a signal when the device housing is placed on the skin of the patient. The sensors...