ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,351, issued on March 24, was assigned to Becton Dickinson France S.A.S. (Le Pont-de-Claix, France).

"Integrated injection system and communication device" was invented by Christophe Bureau (Saint-Martin d'Uriage, France), Roderick Hausser (Kinnelon, N.J.) and Herve Monchoix (Biviers, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An integrated system for injection including an injection device in electronic connection with a communication device is provided. The external communication device may be a handheld electronic device such as a Smartphone or a dedicated reader such as a reader capable of reading information contained on an RFID tag....