ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,760, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).

"Cassette for an autoinjector and related methods" was invented by Azita Rahbari (Westlake Village, Calif.), Sunitha Dasoju (Ventura, Calif.), Angelo Tosarini (Milan), Antonio Antonini (Milan), Julian Jazayeri (Woodland Hills, Calif.), Harpreet Sachar (Newbury Park, Calif.), Andrew Coles (Thousand Oaks, Calif.), Desheng Yin (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Alireza Ashani (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cassette for a drug delivery device is described that includes a sleeve, a syringe having a barrel disposed in the sleeve, and a plunger-st...