ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,463, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Disposable cartridge for a drug delivery device" was invented by Michael Schabbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Meinolf Werner (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Olaf Zeckai (Weinheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disposable cartridge for a drug delivery device includes a flexible bag to accommodate a liquid medicament and having an opening adjacent to a sidewall, a socket having a fluid channel in fluid communication with a cartridge fluid coupling, and a housing covering at least a portion of the flexible bag and having...