US Patent Issued to Ypsomed on July 21 for "Autoinjector with a signaling device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,822, issued on July 21, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Autoinjector with a signaling device" was invented by Jurg Hirschel (Bern, Switzerland), Markus Tschirren (Burgdorf, Switzerland), Ulrich Moser (Heimiswil, Switzerland) and Ursina Streit (Schonbuhl, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autoinjector for dispensing a liquid product includes a housing; a product container arranged in the housing, particularly, a syringe comprising a displaceable piston; a drive member; a first spring which acts on the drive member and the piston to dispense the product from the container; signal element releasably axia...