US Patent Issued to Amgen on Aug. 11 for "Activation mechanism for drug delivery device" (Danish, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,762, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Activation mechanism for drug delivery device" was invented by Matias Melander (Copenhagen, Denmark), Joshua Jay Dudman (Copenhagen, Denmark), Joseph Michael Iglesias (Santa Monica, Calif.), Bjarke Lykke Ludvig Svendsen (Slagelse, Denmark), Adam B. McCullough (Westlake Village, Calif.), Christian Plambech (Soeborg, Denmark) and Steve Sanchez (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device includes a housing, an injection assembly at least partially disposed in the housing, a shield, and a drive assembly at least partially dispose...