ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,499, issued on March 18, was assigned to SCHOTT Pharma Schweiz AG (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

"Syringe including different materials" was invented by Judith Auerbach (Niederteufen, Switzerland), Bastian Fischer (St. Gallen, Switzerland) and Helena Derksen (St. Gallen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A syringe includes a syringe body, a syringe cone having a distal opening, and a connection arranged in the region of the syringe cone, wherein the syringe body includes a first material and the connection includes a second material, and wherein the first material is different from the second material and the second material is...