Patents by Inventor William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh

William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh 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: 20250001082
    Abstract: An autoinjector includes a housing in which a pre-filled syringe is arranged, a drive chassis mounted in the housing, the drive chassis being biased with respect to the housing by a drive spring, the drive chassis further being fixed with respect to the housing and with respect to a movement relative to the housing in a storage state of the autoinjector, the autoinjector including a release mechanism, the release mechanism comprising a trigger arm engaging a stop feature present in the housing in the storage state of the autoinjector, and the trigger arm is to be disengaged from the stop feature on activation of the autoinjector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith JONES, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20250001079
    Abstract: An autoinjector includes a needle guard mounted axially moveable in the housing for movement between a storage state, a dispensing state and a lock-out state in which states the needle guard adopts different axial positions relative to the housing, with the needle guard being configured to be axially moved in a proximal direction between the dispensing state and the lock-out state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith JONES, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20240424224
    Abstract: An autoinjector includes a pre-filled syringe arranged within a housing of the autoinjector, a needle shield covering a needle of the pre-filled syringe in a storage state of the autoinjector, an axially moveable needle guard arranged to cover the needle of the pre-filled syringe at least after use of the autoinjector and to move relative to the pre-filled syringe during use of the autoinjector, and a removable cap in which the needle guard is stored in the storage state of the autoinjector, and, on removal of the cap, the needle shield is removed from the autoinjector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 26, 2024
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith JONES, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20240416039
    Abstract: An autoinjector includes a housing in which a pre-filled syringe is arranged, a drive chassis mounted in the housing, the drive chassis being biased with respect to the housing and being fixed with respect to the housing in a storage state of the autoinjector, a status indicator window and a syringe window both providing visible feedback to a user about a state of use of the autoinjector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith JONES, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20240416040
    Abstract: An autoinjector includes a housing and a drive chassis arranged linearly moveable within the housing, the drive chassis including a dispensing limb and a trigger limb, wherein the trigger limb and the dispensing limb are arranged in parallel to one another respectively at least essentially in parallel to one another and are connected to one another at a respective distal end of the dispensing limb and the trigger limb.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: December 19, 2024
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith JONES, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20240293625
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data logging device for monitoring an injection device, the injection device including a housing and a movable part movable between a first end position and a second end position, the data logging device including a trigger connectable to at least one of the movable part and the housing, a switch arrangement including a first switch engaged with the trigger and movable between a first trigger end position and a second trigger end position, the switch arrangement operable to switch between a first switching state and a second switching state upon movement of the trigger, and a processor connected to the switch arrangement and operable to detect a transition of the switch arrangement between the first switching state and the second switching state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Matthew Meredith Jones
  • Publication number: 20240226453
    Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
  • Publication number: 20240157060
    Abstract: A button for a drug delivery device with a reduced operating loudness includes a plate-like button body forming a touch surface, wherein the plate-like button body is coupled by an axial supporting member to a noise-generating interface of the drug delivery device and movable into a longitudinal direction of the drug delivery device, wherein the plate-like button body includes a material composite with at least one first component consisting of a first material and at least one second component consisting of a second material different from the first material, wherein the at least one first component and the at least one second component are coupled via at least one coupling plane that is at least section wise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2024
    Publication date: May 16, 2024
    Inventors: Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Matthew Meredith Jones, Anthony Paul Morris, Sophie Sladen, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Denny Lustosa Horn, Stefan Blancke, Michael Jugl
  • Patent number: 11980749
    Abstract: An autoinjector basically includes a housing, a pre-filled syringe, a drive chassis, and a needle guard. The pre-filled syringe is mounted in the housing. The drive chassis is configured to move a plunger in the pre-filled syringe to dispense medicament via an urging force from a drive spring. The needle guard is moveable in the housing between a storage state, a dispensing state, and a lock-out state. The needle guard is biased towards an extended position by a lock-out spring. The needle guard selectively engages the housing to establish a frontmost position of the needle guard in the storage state, and an offset position of the needle guard in the lock-out state. The offset position is axially offset from the frontmost position in the distal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: MEDMIX SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, Aled Meredydd James
  • Publication number: 20240131271
    Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
  • Patent number: 11918794
    Abstract: A button for a drug delivery device with a reduced operating loudness includes a plate-like button body forming a touch surface, wherein the plate-like button body is coupled by an axial supporting member to a noise-generating interface of the drug delivery device and movable into a longitudinal direction of the drug delivery device, wherein the plate-like button body includes a material composite with at least one first component consisting of a first material and at least one second component consisting of a second material different from the first material, wherein the at least one first component and the at least one second component are coupled via at least one coupling plane that is at least sectionwise slanted or perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. Further, the disclosure describes a button assembly for a drug delivery device which is shock resistant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Matthew Meredith Jones, Anthony Paul Morris, Sophie Sladen, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Denny Lustosa Horn, Stefan Blancke, Michael Jugl
  • Patent number: 11872381
    Abstract: A drive train for a wind-up injection device is described. The drive train includes a torsional energy storage adapted to be loaded or unloaded by a rotatable element, a rotatable user handle, a rotationally driveable expelling mechanism adapted to expel the liquid drug, and a clutch element coupled with the torsional energy storage via the rotatable element and including a ratchet for maintaining the rotatable element at one of a number of discrete angular positions against the torque of the torsional energy storage. The clutch element is adapted to transmit the torque from the user handle to the torsional energy storage, or alternatively from the torsional energy storage to the expelling mechanism. The ratchet is switchable from one position to an adjacent position by a torque transmitted from the user handle to the torsional energy storage. The drive train is adapted to dampen torque peaks visco-elastically and/or visco-frictionally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Michael Jugl, Stefan Blancke, Axel Teucher, Ralph Donald Quentin Collings, James Robert Coop, James Anthony West, Stephen Francis Gilmore, Daniel David Higgins, Mark Digby Teucher, Anthony Paul Morris, Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Samuel Keir Steel
  • Publication number: 20230347065
    Abstract: An electronic system comprising: at least one user interface member configured to be manipulated by a user for performing a dose setting operation of the drug delivery device and/or for performing a dose delivery operation for delivering a set dose, an electronic control unit configured to control operation of the electronic system, an electrical signaling unit configured to provide at least one electrical signal when the user interface member is manipulated, and a manipulation evaluation unit configured to evaluate the at least one electrical signal of the signaling unit to determine whether the manipulation of the user interface member indicated by the at least one signal of the signaling unit qualifies as an activation operation. The electronic control unit is configured to switch the electronic system into a higher power consumption when the manipulation evaluation unit has confirmed that the manipulation qualifies as activation operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Richard Draper, Aidan Michael O`Hare, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Richard Paul Gledhill, Anthony Paul Morris, Daniel Paul Jenkins, Tom Alexander Earwaker, Oliver Charles Gazeley, Adam Moyo Harvey-Cook, Stefan Alt
  • Publication number: 20230330345
    Abstract: An electronic system for a drug delivery device is disclosed. The electronic system comprises a dose setting and drive mechanism. The dose setting and drive mechanism comprises a first member and a button module. The dose setting and drive mechanism is configured such that, at least in the dose delivery operation and/or in the dose setting operation, the first member moves relative to the button module. The electronic system has at least a first low power consumption state and a second high power consumption state. A rotation and/or axial movement of the button module relative to the first member generates a movement component of the at least one switch member relative to the button module and the first member, which triggers switching between the first low power consumption state and the second high power consumption state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: Anthony Paul Morris, Zoë Georgina Eardley, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Robert Veasey
  • Publication number: 20230330339
    Abstract: An electronic module connectable to an autoinjector, the electronic module configured to detect and to monitor a dose administering process with the autoinjector or parameters related thereto and to provide a user of the autoinjector with feedback on the dose administering process or parameters related thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Inventors: David CATTERMOLE, Aidan Michael O'HARE, Matthew Meredith JONES, William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH
  • Publication number: 20230128892
    Abstract: An electronic system for a drug delivery device is provided. The electronic system comprises a dose setting and drive mechanism comprising a first member and a second member, wherein in the dose delivery operation and/or in the dose setting operation, the first member moves, e.g. rotates, relative to the second member; an electronic control unit; an electrical use detection unit operatively connected to the electronic control unit, and configured to generate a use signal in response to the relative movement, e.g. a relative rotational movement, between the first member and the second member, preferably during the dose delivery operation. The electronic system is configured such that it is switched from a first state into a second state by the electronic control unit in response to the use signal, wherein the electronic system has an increased electrical power consumption in the second state as compared to the first state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Paul Richard Draper, Zoë Georgina Eardley, Oliver Charles Gazeley, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh, Anthony Paul Morris, David Aubrey Plumptre, Ronald Antony Smith, Robert Veasey
  • Publication number: 20230132062
    Abstract: An autoinjector includes a housing, a prefilled syringe mounted in the housing, and a drive chassis mounted in the housing. The drive chassis biased with respect to the housing, and further being fixed with respect to the housing, and configured to move relative to the housing in a storage state of the autoinjector, the drive chassis moving relative to the housing upon dispensing a material from the pre-filled syringe. The autoinjector is configured to generate an audible end of dose feedback between the drive chassis and the housing as the autoinjector approaches the end of dispensing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith Jones, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20230129080
    Abstract: An autoinjector basically includes a housing, a pre-filled syringe, a drive chassis, and a needle guard. The pre-filled syringe is mounted in the housing. The drive chassis is configured to move a plunger in the pre-filled syringe to dispense medicament via an urging force from a drive spring. The needle guard is moveable in the housing between a storage state, a dispensing state, and a lock-out state. The needle guard is biased towards an extended position by a lock-out spring. The needle guard selectively engages the housing to establish a frontmost position of the needle guard in the storage state, and an offset position of the needle guard in the lock-out state. The offset position is axially offset from the frontmost position in the distal direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: William Geoffrey Arthur MARSH, Anthony Paul MORRIS, Matthew Meredith JONES, Aled Meredydd JAMES
  • Publication number: 20230118732
    Abstract: An electronic system for a drug delivery device including a dose setting and drive mechanism, a communication unit, an electronic control unit, and an electrical use detection. The dose setting and drive mechanism includes a first member and a second member that move relative to each other at least in the dose delivery operation and/or in the dose setting operation of the drug delivery device. The electronic system has a first state in which the communication unit is not activated and a second state in which the communication unit is activated. The electrical use detection unit is configured to generate a first signal indicative that the user has commenced or finished the relative movement between the first member and the second member. The electronic control unit is configured to switch the electronic system from the first state into the second state in response to the first signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Philipp Troebner, Zoë Georgina Eardley, Anthony Paul Morris, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh
  • Patent number: 11607499
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device for expelling a pre-determined or pre-settable amount of a liquid medicament formulation which improves the stalling behavior and indicates the stalling state to the user. The device comprises: a medicament reservoir attached to a housing and an expelling mechanism configured for acting against the medicament reservoir in order to expel a portion of the liquid medicament formulation therefrom, the expelling mechanism comprising an arrangement of a threaded nut in a fixed axial relation to the housing and a lead screw in threaded engagement with the threaded nut, the threaded nut and the lead screw being rotatable relative to each other by a rotational input interface, a mechanical energy reservoir (for storing energy, the stored energy being releasable from the energy reservoir by a rotational interface, a drive train having upstream and downstream interfaces; and a trigger movable relative to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2023
    Assignee: Sanofi
    Inventors: Matthew Meredith Jones, William Geoffrey Arthur Marsh