ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,499, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Transmission of data associated with an injection device usage using passive RF modulation" was invented by Matthias Felber (Wil, Switzerland), Nathanael Wettstein (Wil, Switzerland) and Felix Kramer (Wil, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to an injection device including: a reservoir including a wall defining a proximal end, a distal end and a tubular side, a plunger rod configured to be movable within the reservoir in a direction from the distal end to the proximal end, a radio frequency (RF) antenna attached to ...