ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,357, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Ypsomed AG (Burgdorf, Switzerland).

"Augmented reality for drug delivery devices" was invented by Florian Kuhni (Bern, Switzerland) and Dominik Reubi (Bern, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer implemented methods for supporting an operation of a drug delivery device include the steps of: capturing, by a camera of a mobile device, a marker representative of a position of the drug delivery device; transmitting, by the mobile device, camera data of the camera relating to the captured marker to a provider; providing in response to the transmitted camera data, by the provider, drug...