ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,566, issued on July 14, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).

"Drug delivery device mitigating dose measurement errors" was invented by Aidan Michael O'Hare (Warwick, Great Britain) and Giles Patrick Arnell Sparrow (Lower Brailes, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A drug delivery device, comprising housing comprising one or more bridging contacts; a movable dial located at least partially within the housing and arranged to move relative to the one or more bridging contacts, the movable dial comprising a series of conductive strips on an exterior surface of the movable dial, wherein the one or more bridging contacts selectively c...