US Patent Issued to OWEN MUMFORD on July 7 for "Auto-injector" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,162, issued on July 7, was assigned to OWEN MUMFORD Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

"Auto-injector" was invented by Robert William Bruns (Woodstock, Great Britain) and Paul McPherson (Woodstock, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device comprising a housing to house a syringe, an activation member, a drive mechanism to, upon activation by the activation member, drive a plunger driver between a first position and a second position to operate the syringe within the housing and a damping mechanism configured to damp movement of the plunger driver in either a forward motion or a rearward motion. The plunger posit...