US Patent Issued to Genzyme on July 28 for "Medicament delivery device" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,229, issued on July 28, was assigned to Genzyme Corp. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Alexander Hee-Hanson (Melbourn, Great Britain), Thomas Lever (Melbourn, Great Britain), Michael Parrott (Melbourn, Great Britain), Robert Wilson (Melbourn, Great Britain) and Haiming Wu (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medicament delivery device is described. The device includes a body having proximal and distal ends defining a longitudinal direction; a needle for injecting medicament into a user and configured to be arranged in an injecting position in which the needle protrudes from the distal end...