US Patent Issued to Ypsomed on Aug. 5 for "Injection device with a spring for a needle protecting sleeve" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,217, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Injection device with a spring for a needle protecting sleeve" was invented by Edgar Hommann (Grossaffoltern, Switzerland), Benjamin Scherer (Uster, Switzerland) and Ian M. Thompson (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device including a housing, a needle guard sleeve displaceable relative to the housing, and a spring coupled to the guard sleeve such that the guard sleeve can be moved by the spring distally from a proximal position to an end position, the spring also being coupled to a forward drive element displaceable relative t...