ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,568, issued on July 14, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Device for the dosed administration of a fluid product, adapted for the replacement of a container" was invented by Philippe Kohlbrenner (Kaltacker, Switzerland), Daniel Kuenzli (Langendorf, Switzerland), Christoph Meier (Utzenstorf, Switzerland), Peter Stettler (Kirchberg, Switzerland), Juergen Wittmann (Burgdorf, Switzerland) and Martin Wittwer (Wyssachen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for administering a fluid product includes a first housing part with a receiver for the product, a second housing part detachably connectable to the fi...