ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,905, issued on June 10, was assigned to Becton Dickinson France (Le Pont-de-Claix, France).
"Needle cover with undercut" was invented by Longxiang Huang (Jiangsu, China), Bo Yan (Shanghai) and Jeremy Zucchelli (Saint martin d'heres, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle cover for protecting a needle mounted on a tip of a barrel of a medical injection device, may include an inner shield, and an outer shield surrounding at least partially the inner shield, and fixed to said inner shield, wherein the needle cover may include an outer shield including a body including a first open end, a second end, and a sidewall extending betw...