ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,297,251, issued on May 13, was assigned to Zealand Pharma A/S (Soborg, Denmark).

"Injection pen for subcutaneous administration of a peptide" was invented by Kim Sonne (Soborg, Denmark), Ulrik Mouritzen (Soborg, Denmark) and Peter Glerup (Soborg, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention features injection pens for the subcutaneous injection of a peptide and methods of using same."

The patent was filed on Oct. 27, 2023, under Application No. 18/496,636.

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