ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,157, issued on May 13, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Information carrier reader assembly" was invented by Markus Bauss (Lengdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information carrier reader assembly is presented having a first antenna, a second antenna electrically connected to the first antenna, the first antenna attached to a first area of a medicament delivery device, where the medicament delivery device has an information carrier having a fourth antenna wherein the first antenna is positioned so as to enable transmission between the fourth and the first antenna. The information carrier reader assemb...