US Patent Issued to Antares Pharma on June 3 for "Needle assisted injection device having reduced trigger force" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,581, issued on June 3, was assigned to Antares Pharma Inc. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Needle assisted injection device having reduced trigger force" was invented by Michael Travanty (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector includes a trigger mechanism including: a trigger member disposed about an axis having an aperture and a protrusion, and a ram assembly having a ram configured to pressurize a medicament container for expelling a medicament therefrom, the ram assembly further having a trigger engagement member configured to engage the aperture of the trigger member when the trigger member is in a pre-firing condition; an energy ...