ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,485,230, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).
"Syringe with safety mechanism" was invented by Yukihiro Yabe (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety mechanism syringe includes a syringe, a needle, a holder, and a needle cover displaceable relatively with respect to the syringe along an axial direction of the syringe from a use position toward a protection position. The holder includes a locking portion. At least one member of the holder and the needle cover includes a protruding portion that protrudes toward the other member, and the other member includes a restriction portion that abuts on the protru...