ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,501, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to SANOFI (Paris).

"Electronic system for a drug delivery device" was invented by Philipp Troebner (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), Zoe Georgina Eardley (Warwick, Great Britain), Anthony Paul Morris (Warwick, Great Britain) and William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh (Warwick, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system for a drug delivery device including a dose setting and drive mechanism, a communication unit, an electronic control unit, and an electrical use detection. The dose setting and drive mechanism includes a first member and a second member that move relative to each other at ...