ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,761, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Amgen Inc. (Thousand Oaks, Calif.).
"Lockout mechanism for drug delivery device" was invented by Andrew Dunn (Santa Monica, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device includes a housing, a container at least partially disposed within the housing and configured to contain a medicament, an injection mechanism at least partially disposed within the housing and configured to exert a force to urge the medicament from the container, a drug delivery component at least partially disposed within the housing, and at least one pin positioned adjacent to the housing and preventing activat...