ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,168, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Autoinjector" was invented by Simon Francis Brereton (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas Kemp (Ashwell, Great Britain), Rosie Burnell (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Matthew Ekman (Cheshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detent mechanism for controlling translation between two components in a longitudinal direction includes a resilient beam on one of the components and a rhomboid ramp member on the other component. The resilient beam is essentially straight when relaxed and has a first beam head and is arranged to inter...