US Patent Issued to SHL Medical on May 13 for "Autoinjector" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,147, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Autoinjector" was invented by Thad Miley (Boca Raton, Fla.) and Dane Kris (Deerfield Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device is presented having a housing, a container assembly, a needle assembly and a driver assembly. The container assembly includes a medicament container having an interior containing a medicament. The needle assembly is connected to the container assembly and has a needle and an outer cap, wherein the outer cap is configured to be manually manipulated to move the needle toward the medicament container in order...