ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,591, issued on June 3, was assigned to Genentech Inc. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Injection monitoring device" was invented by Sherri Biondi (Menlo Park, Calif.), Geraint Davies (Basel, Switzerland) and Steven N. Roe (South San Francisco, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Drug delivery systems, devices and methods of use for recording a drug dose completion signal in a data management system are provided. Aspects of the invention include drug delivery systems comprising a syringe stopper rod that comprises a sensor component comprising a wireless transmitter module and an activation component configured to activate the sensor ...