US Patent Issued to SHL Medical on July 7 for "Monitoring unit" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. RE50,944, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Monitoring unit" was invented by Stefan Gylleby (Stockholm) and Daniel Sall (Segeltorp, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a monitoring unit for a medicament delivery device, where the monitoring unit has a monitoring circuit arranged in the housing that is capable of detecting and monitoring functions of the medicament delivery device. The monitoring device also has an attachment mechanism provided arranged with releasable locking elements, a mechanical interface arranged to interact with a mating mechanical interface arrange...