ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,623,017, issued on May 12, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Activation mechanism for an on-body medicament delivery device" was invented by Daniel Scott (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) and Slobodan Stefanov (Deerfield Beach, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An activation mechanism for an on-body medicament delivery device, wherein the activation mechanism comprises: an activation button structure configured to be moved between an initial position and an activation position, an activation pin sleeve, and a biased activation pin received by the activation pin sleeve, the activation pin being configured to be linearly movable f...