ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,059, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

"Injection device and a reusable part therefor" was invented by Olaf Lebau (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany), Joerg Heisiep (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany) and Andree Jung (Ingelheim am Rhein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device, in particular an auto-injector, with a single-use part for dispensing an injection solution has a sensor for acquiring a signal, with which an indicator can be determined, which represents a state or a change in state in a process for dispensing the injection solution with the single-...