Patents by Inventor Michael Joest

Michael Joest has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20250345522
    Abstract: An add-on device of an injection device includes a device body and a movable part. A spacer for the add-on device is detachably fastenable to the add-on device. The movable part is movable relative to the device body along a first direction. The spacer includes a spacer body including an engaging portion to detachably fasten to one of the device body and the movable part. The spacer body is operable to impede a movement of the movable part relative to the device body with regard to the first direction when fastened to the device body or the movable part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2023
    Publication date: November 13, 2025
    Inventors: Stephan Riedel, Michael Joest
  • Patent number: 10926035
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cartridge holder of an injection device, the cartridge holder comprising a tubular shaped elongated sleeve extending in an axial direction to accommodate a cartridge filled with a medicament, wherein the sleeve (29) comprises: a proximal connecting end to connect with a distal connecting end of a body of the injection device, which body is configured to accommodate a drive mechanism of the injection device and which drive mechanism is operably engageable with a piston of the cartridge, a flange section extending radially outwardly from an outside surface of the sleeve and having a proximally facing abutment face to axially abut with a distal end face of the distal connecting end of the body, at least three protrusions located distally from the flange section, extending radially outwardly from the outside surface of the sleeve and being distributed around the circumference of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventors: Christiane Schneider, Martin Vitt, Michael Joest
  • Publication number: 20180064877
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a cartridge holder of an injection device, the cartridge holder comprising a tubular shaped elongated sleeve extending in an axial direction to accommodate a cartridge filled with a medicament, wherein the sleeve (29) comprises: a proximal connecting end to connect with a distal connecting end of a body of the injection device, which body is configured to accommodate a drive mechanism of the injection device and which drive mechanism is operably engageable with a piston of the cartridge, a flange section extending radially outwardly from an outside surface of the sleeve and having a proximally facing abutment face to axially abut with a distal end face of the distal connecting end of the body, at least three protrusions located distally from the flange section, extending radially outwardly from the outside surface of the sleeve and being distributed around the circumference of the sleeve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Inventors: Christiane Schneider, Martin Vitt, Michael Joest
  • Patent number: D609361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2010
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Duy Phong Vu, Michael Joest, Kevin Robert Young, Brian Lee Stonecipher, Christine Marie Ciccone, Jung Geun Tak
  • Patent number: D622698
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2010
    Assignee: The Gillette Company
    Inventors: Rory Frederick Wellington McGarry, Duy Phong Vu, Michael Joest, Kevin Robert Young, Brian Lee Stonecipher, Christine Marie Ciccone, Jung geun Tak