ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,383, issued on April 7, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).
"Lock mechanism for a medicament delivery device" was invented by Gary Calderwood (Stockholm), Bjorn Krohn (Arsta, Sweden), Joakim Lindholm (Saltsjo-Boo, Sweden) and Tilde Rolder (Stockholm).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The application describes lock mechanisms for medicament delivery devices. The lock mechanisms extend from a proximal end to a distal end in an axial direction relative to a longitudinal axis, the lock mechanisms can have a housing, a medicament delivery member guard and a cap. The lock mechanisms can also include a protrusion extending in a r...