US Patent Issued to F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE on Dec. 2 for "Prefilled syringe and method of sterilizing a prefilled syringe" (Swiss, British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,226, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to F. HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Prefilled syringe and method of sterilizing a prefilled syringe" was invented by Neil B. Cammish (Manchester, Great Britain), Markus Hemminger (Basel, Switzerland), Cyrille Blintz (Basel, Switzerland), Mayumi Bowen (San Francisco) and Joshua Horvath (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A prefilled syringe is disclosed that includes a barrel, a stopper displaceable within and defining a sealed chamber in an interior of the barrel, a liquid filled in the chamber of the barrel, and a plunger extending within the barrel. The stopper expels the l...