ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,533,471, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).
"Drug delivery device" was invented by Stefan Blancke (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Michael Jugl (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Anthony Paul Morris (Warwick, Great Britain), Matthew Meredith Jones (Warwick, Great Britain), William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh (Warwick, Great Britain) and Samuel Steel (Warwick, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device, comprising: a housing, a plunger arranged within the housing and movable along a longitudinal axis and adapted to push a piston within a container in a distal direction, the plunger being prevented from rotating ...