ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,143, issued on May 13, was assigned to TERUMO K.K. (Tokyo).
"Liquid medicine administration device" was invented by Manabu Arinobe (Kanagawa, Japan), Yusuke Hyakkan (Kanagawa, Japan), Minami Maekawa (Kanagawa, Japan) and Yoichiro Iwase (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This liquid medicine administration device includes a liquid medicine container, a gasket for expelling the liquid medicine in the liquid medicine container, a plunger that moves the gasket, a housing, a drive mechanism that advances the plunger, and a rotation restriction unit that restricts rotation of the plunger. The drive mechanism includes a motor a...