ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,671, issued on May 6, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).
"Drug delivery device and charging device" was invented by Atul Nayak (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device for delivering a medicament includes a housing arranged to contain a container, a receiver coil, and an energy storage unit. The receiver coil is arranged to receive energy from a transmitter coil by electromagnetic induction. The energy storage unit is arranged to be charged by at least a portion of the energy received by the receiver coil. At least a portion of the energy received by the receiver coil is converted to heat energy. The recei...