US Patent Issued to NIPRO on Nov. 25 for "Valved needle assembly and indwelling needle assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,772, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to NIPRO Corp. (Osaka, Japan).

"Valved needle assembly and indwelling needle assembly" was invented by Hiroyuki Nakagami (Osaka, Japan), Shingo Sakamoto (Osaka, Japan), Haruo Akimoto (Osaka, Japan) and Ryosuke Miyazaki (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A valved needle assembly includes a connector having an inner hole, a pipe body fixed to a tip end of the connector, a valve body, and an assembly part in which an insertion part provided to one of the connector and the pipe body is inserted into another such that the connector is disposed within or about the pipe body. A locking protrusi...