US Patent Issued to Embecta on July 29 for "Pen needle" (New York, New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,324, issued on July 29, was assigned to Embecta Corp. (Parsippany, N.J.).

"Pen needle" was invented by Amit Uday Limaye (Wayne, N.J.), David Poganski (Aimont, N.Y.), David Huang (Hayward, Calif.) and Brishell Aquise (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pen needle (10) includes a hub (12) supporting a needle (30), an inner shield (14) enclosing the distal end of the needle, and an outer cover (16). The outer surface of the hub can include ribs (66) that cooperate with ribs (72) on the inner surface of the outer cover to assist in attaching the pen needle to a delivery device while preventing over torqueing or over tighten...