ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,007, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).
"Injection device" was invented by Michael Jugl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Michael Helmer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Steffen Raab (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Martin Vitt (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device including a housing, a dose indicator, and a release mechanism. The dose indicator is positioned within the internal space of the housing and includes a number of engaging members at least one thereof being configured to contact multiple of distinct ratchet features in course of a helical or screwing movement in distinct posi...