ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,466, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Arrangement for a drug delivery device" was invented by Uwe Dasbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Thomas Mark Kemp (Melbourn, Great Britain) and Tomas Correa (Melbourn, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device includes a housing, a blocking feature rotationally secured relative to the housing, a drive unit, a rod operatively coupled to the drive unit and arranged to move distally relative to the housing when the rod is released, and a movable trigger member. The rod is rotatable relative to the housing and has an unprimed state and a primed state. In ...