ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,545, issued on March 18.
"Injection analgesia system" was invented by Nessa Kiani (Laguna Niguel, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection analgesia system advantageously numbs a patient's skin around an injection site. An injection window guides a caregiver's injection placement to a relatively small area while allowing standard injection procedures to be followed, such as stretching the skin and puncturing the site with a jabbing motion. The injection analgesia system has a needle shield and an analgesia, which are layered together and applied to a skin surface. A needle shield window and a analgesia window align to form...