ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,764, issued on March 24, was assigned to Embecta Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Pen needle magazine" was invented by Amit Limaye (Wayne, N.J.), Dipumon Ayyanchira Mani (Kerala, India), Praveesh Karattu Meethal (Kerala, India) and Sajayesh Vijayachandran (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pen needle magazine (10) comprising a plurality of compartments (14) each carrying a pen needle (40), and a pen needle carrier (60) disposed in each of the plurality of compartments (14), the pen needle (40) disposed in the pen needle carrier (60), wherein the pen needle carrier (60) includes a first pen needle path (62) and a second pen ne...