ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. RE50,960, issued on July 21, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Markus Bauss (Lengdorf, Germany), Per Lindstedt (Varmdo, Sweden), Rasmus Renstad (Stockholm), Nikolaj Hautaviita (Bro, Sweden) and Daniel Sall (Segeltorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a medicament delivery device comprising a housing (60), which housing is arranged to accommodate a medicament container (62); a drive unit (86) operably arranged to act on said medicament container (62) for expelling a dose of medicament; an activation unit (74) operably connected to said drive u...