US Patent Issued to Retractable Technologies on April 29 for "Blood collection tube holder with single needle" (Texas, Oklahoma Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,253, issued on April 29, was assigned to Retractable Technologies Inc. (Little Elm, Texas).

"Blood collection tube holder with single needle" was invented by Thomas J. Shaw (Frisco, Texas), Mark Small (Heavener, Okla.) and Ni Zhu (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood collection tube holder having a retractable single needle and a body comprising substantially parallel and laterally spaced apart barrel and needle retraction cavities separated by a partial wall that facilitates lateral movement of the single needle from the barrel cavity into alignment with the needle retraction cavity to initiate needle retraction. The b...