US Patent Issued to Eli Lilly and Co. on Aug. 18 for "Drug delivery device configured for pain reduction during injection" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,722, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).

"Drug delivery device configured for pain reduction during injection" was invented by Paul Dennis Baskerville (Greenwood, Ind.), Hemant Thakorbhai Patel (Indianapolis), Louis Stevens Somlai (Zionsville, Ind.) and Adam Nathaniel Wiesler (Zionsville, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device may include a housing and a baseplate coupled to the housing. The baseplate may include a flange portion and an axial portion that extends from the flange portion in a longitudinal direction of the housing. The baseplate may be an opaque, polymer material that i...