Patents by Inventor Naceur Rekaya
Naceur Rekaya 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).
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Publication number: 20230248919Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising a feedback feature. The feedback feature is configured to indicate an end of the dispense operation to a user by giving an audible and/or tactile feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2023Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Roger Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Patent number: 11654245Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising a feedback feature. The feedback feature is configured to indicate an end of the dispense operation to a user by giving an audible and/or tactile feedback.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Roger Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Patent number: 11376365Abstract: A housing includes a body and a cartridge holder. The body can accommodate a drive mechanism including a piston rod to operably engage with a piston of a cartridge filled with a liquid injectable medicament. The cartridge holder has a cartridge receiving space. The cartridge holder has an insert section at a proximal end. The body has a receptacle to receive the insert section. The cartridge holder includes a first latch element located on the insert section. The body includes a second latch element located in the receptacle and protruding inwardly from a side wall section of the receptacle. A radial extension of the first latch element is less than a thickness of the side wall of the insert section or of the receptacle. A radial protrusion of the second latch element is less than a thickness of the side wall sections of the insert section or of the receptacle.Type: GrantFiled: May 3, 2017Date of Patent: July 5, 2022Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Naceur Rekaya, Neal Alexander Blundred, Paul Richard Draper
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Patent number: 11013863Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an assembly for a drug delivery device having a housing part, a piston rod displaceable relative to the housing part, a first sleeve member and a second sleeve member. First and second sleeve members are coupled to the housing part. In an initial state of the assembly the first sleeve member is movable from an initial position to a second position relative to the second sleeve member which allows the piston rod to axially travel from an initial position to a predetermined second position such that the assembly is in a primed state. Moreover, in the primed state of the assembly, with the first sleeve member being in the second position relative to the second sleeve member, first and second sleeve members are permanently rotationally and axially locked to each other by a first engagement feature such that first and second sleeve members together form a sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2018Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Griffin
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Patent number: 10569026Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a resettable drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The drug delivery device comprises a housing, a cartridge holder releasably attached to the distal end of the housing, a piston rod engaging a housing insert and a drive member, a dose setting member guided within the housing to allow rotation of the dose setting member during dose setting and dose dispensing, a clutch for rotationally coupling the drive member and the dose setting member, and a locking element which is rotationally constrained to the housing and is axially movable relative to the housing between a proximal dose setting position and a distal resetting position.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 2015Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: SanofiInventors: Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper
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Publication number: 20200016340Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising a feedback feature. The feedback feature is configured to indicate an end of the dispense operation to a user by giving an audible and/or tactile feedback.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Inventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Roger Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Patent number: 10471217Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising a feedback feature. The feedback feature is configured to indicate an end of the dispense operation to a user by giving an audible and/or tactile feedback.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: November 12, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Patent number: 10449301Abstract: An assembly for a drug delivery device is provided, the assembly comprising an actuator which is configured to be operated in order to dispense a dose of medication and a feedback feature being configured to give a feedback signal to a user at the end of a dwell period after the actuator has reached an end position.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin, Stephen Francis Gilmore
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Publication number: 20190269855Abstract: A housing includes a body and a cartridge holder. The body can accommodate a drive mechanism including a piston rod to operably engage with a piston of a cartridge filled with a liquid injectable medicament. The cartridge holder has a cartridge receiving space. The cartridge holder has an insert section at a proximal end. The body has a receptacle to receive the insert section. The cartridge holder includes a first latch element located on the insert section. The body includes a second latch element located in the receptacle and protruding inwardly from a side wall section of the receptacle. A radial extension of the first latch element is less than a thickness of the side wall of the insert section or of the receptacle. A radial protrusion of the second latch element is less than a thickness of the side wall sections of the insert section or of the receptacle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2017Publication date: September 5, 2019Inventors: Naceur REKAYA, Neal Alexander BLUNDRED, Paul Richard DRAPER
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Patent number: 10376645Abstract: The present disclosure concerns a drive mechanism for a drug delivery device, having a first and a second state and comprising a piston rod configured to be moved in a distal direction when the drive mechanism is operated and an adjusting member, wherein the adjusting member is rotatable relative to a body of the drug delivery device in the first state of the drive mechanism and is prevented from rotating relative to the body in the second state of the drive mechanism, and wherein the adjusting member is configured to adjust an axial position of the piston rod in the first state of the drive mechanism.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, Paul Griffin, David Richard Mercer
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Patent number: 10195358Abstract: The piston rod arrangement is in an assembled state before use and comprises a piston rod, a bung, which is intended to be driven by the piston rod, a body member, and a drive member. The piston rod is threadedly engaged with the body member, and the drive member is threadedly engaged with the piston rod and movable relative to the body member. A mechanism is provided defining unit steps of movement of the drive member and corresponding unit steps of movement of the piston rod. The piston rod is arranged in contact with the bung or at a distance from the bung that is less than a distance of one corresponding unit step of movement. When the piston rod, the bung and the drive member are assembled in the body member, the piston rod is advanced with respect to the body member towards the bung, until the piston rod is stopped by the bung. The drive member is rotated until the piston rod begins to advance again and the drive member is then stopped, and the piston rod is fixed at or near the position obtained.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Griffin, Robert Veasey
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Publication number: 20190001066Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an assembly for a drug delivery device having a housing part, a piston rod displaceable relative to the housing part, a first sleeve member and a second sleeve member. First and second sleeve members are coupled to the housing part. In an initial state of the assembly the first sleeve member is movable from an initial position to a second position relative to the second sleeve member which allows the piston rod to axially travel from an initial position to a predetermined second position such that the assembly is in a primed state. Moreover, in the primed state of the assembly, with the first sleeve member being in the second position relative to the second sleeve member, first and second sleeve members are permanently rotationally and axially locked to each other by a first engagement feature such that first and second sleeve members together form a sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2018Publication date: January 3, 2019Inventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul A. Griffin
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Patent number: 10099014Abstract: The present disclosure pertains to an assembly for a drug delivery device having a housing part, a piston rod displaceable relative to the housing part, a first sleeve member and a second sleeve member. First and second sleeve members are coupled to the housing part. In an initial state of the assembly the first sleeve member is movable from an initial position to a second position relative to the second sleeve member which allows the piston rod to axially travel from an initial position to a predetermined second position such that the assembly is in a primed state. Moreover, in the primed state of the assembly, with the first sleeve member being in the second position relative to the second sleeve member, first and second sleeve members are permanently rotationally and axially locked to each other by a first engagement feature such that first and second sleeve members together form a sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: October 16, 2018Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper, David Richard Mercer, Naceur Rekaya, Paul Griffin
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Patent number: 9999732Abstract: An arrangement comprising an optical element and an indication member for a drug delivery device is provided. The indication member comprises a plurality of indicia. The optical element comprises an imaging section and a light-transmissive non-imaging section, wherein the indication member is movable with respect to the optical element such that the indicia can be successively moved into a display position relative to the optical element. The imaging section is configured such that, when a first indicium is arranged in the display position, the first indicium is imaged by the imaging section into an imaging solid angle. The non-imaging section is configured such that light defining a second indicium is deflected by the non-imaging section such that the second indicium cannot be identified by a user in the imaging solid angle on a viewing side of the optical element.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: June 19, 2018Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBHInventors: Naceur Rekaya, David Aubrey Plumptre, Paul Richard Draper
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Patent number: 9956347Abstract: The present disclosure concerns an attachment for an operable drug delivery device, comprising a gripping sleeve member that is configured to receive a first member of the operable drug delivery device, wherein the gripping sleeve member comprises a first gripping sleeve member part comprising a first engagement feature at its inner surface that is configured to engage the first gripping sleeve member part in a torque-proof manner with the first member of the operable drug delivery device. Further, the present invention concerns a use of the attachment or a system of attachments for operating the operable drug delivery device.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2014Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper, David Aubrey Plumtre, Robert Veasey, Daniel David Higgins, Matthew Jones, Michael Bainton
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Publication number: 20180071460Abstract: The present disclosure is generally directed to a resettable drug delivery device for selecting and dispensing a number of user variable doses of a medicament. The drug delivery device comprises a housing, a cartridge holder releasably attached to the distal end of the housing, a piston rod engaging a housing insert and a drive member, a dose setting member guided within the housing to allow rotation of the dose setting member during dose setting and dose dispensing, a clutch for rotationally coupling the drive member and the dose setting member, and a locking element which is rotationally constrained to the housing and is axially movable relative to the housing between a proximal dose setting position and a distal resetting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2015Publication date: March 15, 2018Inventors: Naceur Rekaya, Paul Richard Draper
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Patent number: 9878100Abstract: A medicated module (4) for an injection system to co-deliver at least two medicaments is disclosed where a primary delivery device containing a primary medicament accepts a medicated module (4) containing a single dose of a secondary medicament and where both medicaments are delivered through a hollow needle (3). The medicated module (4) does not require the user to manually engage a reservoir (22) containing the secondary medicament. Instead, a biasing member (48) automatically activates the reservoir (22) when the needle guard (42) is retracted. The needle guard (42) prevents accidental needle sticks before and after an injection, and locks after dose delivery.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: January 30, 2018Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventors: David Moore, Garen Kouyoumjian, Christopher John Jones, James Mark Watson, John David Cross, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, Alasdair George Young, Naceur Rekaya
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Patent number: 9750898Abstract: A medicated module attachable to a drug delivery device comprising a connecting body configured for attachment to the drug delivery device. A first needle held within a first needle hub of the connecting body and a second needle fixed within a second needle hub of the connecting body. A recess within the connecting body defining a reservoir. The reservoir containing at least one dose of a medicament and configured for fluid communication with the first needle. The connecting body further comprises a lockout feature that prevents the medicated module from being reconnected to the drug delivery device after the medicated module has been connected to the drug delivery device a first time.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: September 5, 2017Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbHInventors: James Alexander Davies, John David Cross, Malcom Stanley Boyd, Steven Wimpenny, Daniel Thomas De Sausmarez Lintell, Simon Lewis Bilton, Naceur Rekaya
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Patent number: 9504791Abstract: A medicated module for an injection system to co-deliver at least two medicaments is disclosed where a primary delivery device containing a primary medicament accepts a medicated module containing a single dose of a secondary medicament and where both medicaments are delivered through a hollow needle. The medicated module is user selectable so that it will deliver a priming dose of a primary medicament or both the primary and secondary medicaments. The module also contains a needle guard that locks after dose delivery. The needle guard prevents accidental needle sticks before and after an injection. A locking collar rotates during use as an inner protrusion follows three paths of a track located on the outer surface of a body housing. When the inner facing protrusion is in the third path, it encounters a hard stop and a rotational bias that locks the guard from further refraction and thus covers the sharp distal end of the needle.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2011Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: John David Cross, Malcolm Stanley Boyd, Alasdair George Young, Naceur Rekaya, James Alexander Davies, Steven Wimpenny, Daniel Thomas De Sausmarez Lintell, Simon Lewis Bilton
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Patent number: 9402963Abstract: A medicated module for an injection system to co-deliver at least two medicaments is disclosed, where a drug delivery device containing a primary medicament accepts a medicated module containing a single dose of a second medicament and where both medicaments are delivered through a single hollow needle. The medicated module comprises two housings removably connected to each other, where each housing contains a sterile needle and needle guard assembly that locks out after the needle is inserted in an injection site.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2011Date of Patent: August 2, 2016Assignee: SANOFI-AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Malcolm Stanley Boyd, James Alexander Davies, Naceur Rekaya