ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,744, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Cover assembly" was invented by Hsuan Wang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Jared Schwartzentruber (New York), Yun-Ting Lee (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Michael Sonntag (Taipei, Taiwan), Slobodan Stefanov (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) and Frederick Gertz (Prosperity, S.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cover assembly that covers a medicament delivery member of a medicament container. The assembly having a housing extending along a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and a distal end. A cover member bi-directionally movable along the longitudinal axis relative to the housing, where the cov...