ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,262, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Medicament delivery device" was invented by Daniel Carlsson (Nacka Strand, Sweden) and Yen-Tung Chen (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a medicament delivery device configured to expel a medicament from a medicament container comprising an injection needle. The medicament delivery device is configured to assume a retracted state in which an injection needle is arranged inside a medicament delivery member and prevented from external exposure, and a protracted state in which the injection needle is configured to...