ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,246, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Anders Holmqvist (Varmdo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a housing, a medicament container holder arranged to accommodate a medicament container, a needle assembly comprising an injection needle part and a penetration needle part, wherein the extension of the injection needle part and the extension of the penetration needle part are angled generally 90 degrees, a penetration mechanism arranged to move the needle assembly in a directi...