US Patent Issued to Ypsomed on Oct. 20 for "Autoinjector" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,267, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Autoinjector" was invented by Markus Tschirren (Burgdorf, Switzerland), Christian Schrul (Burgdorf, Switzerland) and Jurg Hirschel (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An autoinjector comprises a housing, a product container, a displaceable needle protection sleeve, a plunger rod displaceable by a preloaded discharge spring, a dose setting element with at least two different rotational positions relative to the housing, and a dosing sleeve. The dosing sleeve or the plunger rod has a dose selection stop, and the other has at least one dosing stop...