ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,228, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Dosing system for an injection device" was invented by Patrick Hostettler (Hasle, Switzerland), Simon Scheurer (Bern, Switzerland) and Jurg Hirschel (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device for dispensing a dose of a product by manually advancing a piston rod includes a dosing and dispensing mechanism having a housing with a longitudinal axis, a dosing sleeve mounted in the housing for adjusting and correcting the dose, a housing insert fixed to the housing and arranged inside the dosing sleeve, and a coupling sleeve mounted in the...