ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,955, issued on June 16, was assigned to West Pharma. Services IL Ltd. (Ra'anana, Israel).
"Anti-rotation cartridge pin" was invented by Lior Barchen (Gani Tal, Israel) and Yossi Bar-El (Beit Arye, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for inserting a pharmaceutical cartridge into a delivery device is described. The cartridge can be inserted in an arbitrary orientation and the system reorients the cartridge to a locked orientation. For example, a driver applies a torque to the cartridge to cause the reorienting. The torque rotates the cartridge around an axis thereof until the cartridge reaches the locked orientation. When th...