ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,439, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Novartis AG (Basel, Switzerland).

"Injection device and injection solution transferring system" was invented by Frederick William Hamlin (Boston), Anthony Jonathan Bedford (Cambridge, Great Britain), Duncan Aleck Bishop (Cambridgeshire, Great Britain), Andrew Murray Gow (Wellington, New Zealand), David Stuart Harris (Cambridge, Great Britain), Nicholas Lee Hawson (Brier, Wash.), Jean-Paul Kleeven (Wijchen, Netherlands), Dominic Lloyd-Lucas (Cambridge, Great Britain), David Mucientes (Basel, Switzerland), Martin Joseph Murphy (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Stephen Paboojian (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. ...