US Patent Issued to ASTI on July 29 for "Injection needle" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,326, issued on July 29, was assigned to ASTI Corp. (Hamamatsu, Japan).

"Injection needle" was invented by Noriyuki Ogai (Hamamatsu, Japan), Akinori Inoh (Hamamatsu, Japan) and Isamu Nonaka (Hamamatsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to provide an injection needle unit, provided with a plurality of needle pieces, with a simple structure and capable of easy manufacturing. The injection needle unit provided with: a needle base provided with a medicinal solution accommodation space; and a plurality of needle pieces, each of which is attached to the needle base, and a base end of the needle pie...