US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 17 for "Needle actuator assembly for drug delivery system" (British, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,950, issued on June 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Needle actuator assembly for drug delivery system" was invented by Michael Vincent Quinn (East Hanover, N.J.), Mohammed Yassir Mahdi (Stamford, Conn.), Oliver Charles Gazeley (Leamington Spa, Great Britain), James Alexander Senior (Warwick, Great Britain) and Malcolm Stanley Boyd (Wellesbourne, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle actuator assembly for a drug delivery system includes a needle actuator body having a guide surface, a needle shuttle having a cam surface, with the needle shuttle moveable along a vertical axis betwee...