ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,590, issued on June 3, was assigned to SHAILY ENGINEERING PLASTICS LTD. (Gujarat, India).

"Injector pen assembly" was invented by Stephen Knowles (Datchet, Great Britain) and Simon Collings (Datchet, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector pen is provided that includes a cartridge housing 2, a dose selector housing 10 and a nut 18 for coupling the two housings 2,10 together. The dose selector housing 10 defines an intermediate axial position, where the nut 18 can be temporarily retained in the dose selector housing 10 to form a sub-assembly suitable for transport to a different location. During final assembly of the i...