ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,006, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Assembly for a drug delivery device, drug delivery device and method for producing a drug delivery device" was invented by Stefan Blancke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Michael Jugl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for a drug delivery device comprises: a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, a dose setting and drive mechanism comprising a dose setting member moveable relative to the housing in a dose setting operation from an initial position to a dose set position, the dose setting and drive mechanism further comprising a piston ...