ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,306, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sanofi Pasteur (Lyons, France).

"Ready-to-sell packaging unit containing at least one pharmaceutical product, set including a plurality of such packaging units and method for producing such packaging unit" was invented by Christophe DeJonghe (Ecully, France), Ludovic Giroud (Marcy l'Etoile, France), Teddy Klein (Villefontaine, France) and Philippe Revolte (Saint-Genis-Laval, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The packaging unit includes an inner enclosure (11) within which is contained each said pharmaceutical product (12), a patient or health care professional information leaflet (13) and out...