US Patent Issued to NITTA MOLD on June 3 for "Needle disposal container" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,231, issued on June 3, was assigned to NITTA MOLD Corp. (Koka, Japan).

"Needle disposal container" was invented by Takumi Moro (Konan, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle disposal container includes a container body and a covering attached to the container body. The covering includes a lid body that covers the open top of the container body and a movable member movable relative to the lid body between a hold position and a retract position. The lid body has a first wall having a first surface, and the movable member has a second wall having a second surface. The first and second surfaces together form a cylindrical surface t...