ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,715, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).
"Medication delivery device with syringe sensing system" was invented by Christopher Paul Loughnane (Brookline, Mass.), Gaurav Rohatgi (Waltham, Mass.) and Stephen Louis Snyder (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medication delivery device including a drive mechanism, a retraction mechanism and a sensing system. A medication container is movable relative to the medication delivery device between storage and delivery positions. The drive mechanism drives a plunger in a translational movement to move the medication container from the storage position...