US Patent Issued to ELI LILLY and Co. on Feb. 24 for "Dose detection and drug identification for a medication delivery device" (American, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,491, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to ELI LILLY AND COMPANY (Indianapolis).

"Dose detection and drug identification for a medication delivery device" was invented by Roy Howard Byerly (Indianapolis), Russell Wayne Perkins (Carmel, Ind.), Rossano Claudio Massari (Lissone, Italy), Patrick Kevin Murphy (Allston, Mass.), Davide Paccioretti (Samarate, Italy), Sean Matthew Pszenny (Allston, Mass.) and Oliver Brian Regele (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a dose detection system for use in combination with a medication delivery device. In one aspect, the system includes a module keyed to th...