ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,586, issued on June 3, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).
"Dual-function spring" was invented by Adrian Eich (Wangenried, Switzerland), Aurele Horisberger (Allschwil, Switzerland), Patrick Hostettler (Hasle-Ruegsau, Switzerland), Malte Kladiwa (Bern, Switzerland), Stefan Meier (Aarberg, Switzerland), Peter Stettler (Kirchberg, Switzerland) and Jurgen Wittmann (Burgdorf, Switzerland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device for dispensing a product, the injection device including a moveable element which is moved for a dispensing operation, a spring, a product container holder and a product container, wherein ...