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AssigneeGilead Sciences, Inc.
InventorsStephan Edward Augustyn, Berk Besen, Stuart Curtis, Rosemary Victoria Earl, Walter Goodwin, Matthew Robert Hiskey, William James Kirby, Finlay Knops-McKim, Daniel Milton Meruz, James Paul Oberhauser, Alasdair Young
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Systems, devices, and methods include an autoinjector including a housing; a needle arranged at a distal end of the housing; a container disposed within the housing and configured to contain medicament; and a plunger slidably disposed within the container. A plunger rod is configured to push the plunger through the container to dispense the medicament through the needle when the container contains medicament. The plunger rod includes one or more conductive regions. A mechanism is configured so that a dispensing movement of the plunger rod causes the mechanism to generate a first electrical signal from at least one of the one or more conductive regions. A first sensor is configured to detect the first electrical signal generated by the mechanism.
An autoinjector comprising:
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The autoinjector of claim 0, wherein the plunger rod comprises a plurality of conductive regions and is configured to generate a plurality of electrical signals during the dispensing movement of the plunger rod.
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The autoinjector of claim 0, further comprising:
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A method of detecting a dispensing movement of a plunger rod within an autoinjector, the method comprising:
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.