US Patent Issued to SHL Medical on Sept. 8 for "Auto-injection device" (Swedish, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,204, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Auto-injection device" was invented by Anders Holmqvist (Varmdo, Sweden) and Hsueh-Yi Chen (New Taipei City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an autoinjector device (10) for use in combination with a syringe (30), said syringe comprising a movable plunger; a needle; and a tubular needle shield (34). The claimed autoinjector device (10) comprises: an elongated housing having a proximal (11) and a distal end (12); a drive mechanism; a syringe holder (40) in order to support the fragile syringe and to prevent damage to the s...