ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,465,692, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).
"Dosing mechanism with rotational end stop mechanism for terminating dose dispense" was invented by Michael Jugl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Stefan Blancke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dosing mechanism for a drug delivery device is provided for selecting and dispensing user-variable doses of a medicament. The mechanism includes a housing, a piston rod, and a drive configured to rotate the piston rod and/or a movement application component directly engaged with the piston rod in a dispense rotational direction relative to the housing. A rotati...