ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,313, issued on July 29, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Medicament delivery device with usage monitoring" was invented by Nikolaj Hautaviita (Bro, Sweden), Rasmus Renstad (Stockholm), Daniel Sall (Segeltorp, Sweden), Stefan Gylleby (Stockholm) and Per Lindstedt (Varmdo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device is presented having a housing that is arranged to accommodate a medicament container, a drive unit operably arranged to act on the medicament container upon activation, an activation mechanism operably arranged to be operated by a user, an activation preventing mechanism operably ar...