ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,447,278, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Wakening electronics in an injection device" was invented by Michael Schabbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Ganesh Appusamy Vedhachalam (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Jorg Bigalke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Johannes Alpers (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 including a stopper and an electromechanical switch. The stopper includes an electronics assembly. The electromechanical switch is operable to be activated to power the electronics assembly...