US Patent Issued to Antares Pharma on March 17 for "Multiple dosage injector with rack and pinion dosage system having ram that includes a lockout protrusion" (Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,213, issued on March 17, was assigned to Antares Pharma Inc. (Ewing, N.J.).

"Multiple dosage injector with rack and pinion dosage system having ram that includes a lockout protrusion" was invented by Patrick Madsen (Litchfield, Minn.), Hans Pflaumer (Roseville, Minn.) and Kevin Swanson (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dispensing mechanism for delivering a dosage of medicament including a housing, a push button, a crank arm that is slideably engageable with the push button, a ram, and a ratchet gear releasably engageable with the crank arm and ram, translation of the push button along an axis causing the crank arm to...