ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,441, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Eli Lilly and Co. (Indianapolis).

"Methods and apparatus for aspects of a dose detection system" was invented by Marco Cortinovis (Seriate, Italy), Bhakti Girish Khandagale (Indianapolis) and Rossano Claudio Massari (Lissone, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The techniques described herein relate to computerized methods and apparatus of at least one of for determining whether a dose sensing module is attached to a medication delivery device, such as, for example, with dose detection sensors, for detecting a color of a portion of a medication delivery device to determine a medication contained...