ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,228, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Syringe with a patient contact surface" was invented by Kevin Watts (Kearney, Neb.), Roger Hoeck (Holdrege, Neb.), Lance Lee Jacobi (Kearney, Neb.) and Amit Uday Limaye (Wayne, Neb.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A syringe and needle hub for a syringe has distal patient-facing side having a surface for contact with the subject's skin during injection. The contact surface is formed by a distal face of a post supporting a cannula and an outer collar surrounding the post. The axial distance between the distal face of the post and the distal face of t...