ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,260, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to BIONIME Corp. (Taichung, Taiwan).

"Insertion device for a biosensor and insertion method thereof" was invented by Chun-Mu Huang (Taichung, Taiwan), Chieh-Hsing Chen (Taichung, Taiwan), Chen-Hao Lee (Taichung, Taiwan) and Kuan-Lin Chang (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An insertion device includes a cover body, an insertion module. The insertion module is disposed in the cover body, and includes a main body, an insertion seat, a first elastic member, a retraction seat and a second elastic member. When the cover body is depressed, the insertion seat is driven by the first elastic ...