US Patent Issued to Sanofi on July 28 for "Device and procedure for self-injection and insertion of needles or catheters intravenously" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,232, issued on July 28, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Device and procedure for self-injection and insertion of needles or catheters intravenously" was invented by Nadja Boeschen (Darmstadt, Germany), Hardy Kietzmann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) and Horst Mischo (Darmstadt, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-IV injection device is provided. The self-IV device comprises fixing means to fix the device with respect to an arm of a user, an optical sensor, an IV needle, a drive, and a processor. The self-IV injection device is configured to detect, using the optical sensor, positions of marks placed on the arm of the user, an...