ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,437, issued on May 26, was assigned to Sanofi (Paris).

"Injector device having a braking arrangement" was invented by Uwe Dasbach (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Kai Scheinert (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Daniel Auernhammer (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Florian Schauderna (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Thomas Mark Kemp (Herts, Great Britain), Tim Schuller (Herts, Great Britain), Robbie Wilson (Herts, Great Britain), Michael Noble (Herts, Great Britain) and Ryan Anthony McGinley (Herts, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injector device comprising: an outer housing for receiving a medicament container; and a drive mechanism ...