ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,644, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"RFID tag enabled needle shield" was invented by Markus Bauss (Lengdorf, Germany) and Thomas Dietl (Farkenfels, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an RDID tag enabled needle shield assembly that provides a sterile enclosure of an injection needle and that can be fixedly attached to a pre-filled syringe for administering an injection of medicament to a patient after removal of the needle shield assembly. The RFID tag is fixedly attached to the needle shield through co-molding or another form of permanent attachment. The pres...