ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,033, issued on June 9, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).
"Audible indicator" was invented by Carsten Mosebach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Thomas Mark Kemp (Ashwell, Great Britain), Louise Hodgson (Hertfordshire Herts Hertfordsh, Great Britain) and William Timmis (Melbourne, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to an audible indicator in combination with a drug delivery device having a resilient force member capable of resting in either of two states. In a biased state, the resilient force member is biased and stores energy and in a relaxed state, the resilien...