ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,649,030, issued on June 9, was assigned to Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH (Frankfurt am Main, Germany).

"Syringe support and autoinjector" was invented by Carsten Mosebach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Thomas Mark Kemp (Ashwell, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a syringe support for supporting an axial position of a syringe relative to a housing of an autoinjector. The syringe support includes a supporting beam arranged on the syringe support and biased radially inwards. The supporting beam is adapted to axially bias the syringe in a distal direction within the housing. The disclosure further rela...