US Patent Issued to SHL Medical on Oct. 7 for "Injection needle assembly" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,014, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Injection needle assembly" was invented by Lucio Giambattista (East Hanover, N.J.), David DeSalvo (Lake Hiawatha, N.J.) and Antonio Bendek (Vernon, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection needle assembly is presented having an injection needle; a tubular needle holder having distal engagement means and proximal engagement means; a tubular cap having proximal outer engagement means and proximal inner engagement means; a tubular needle cover having first engagement means arranged to cooperate with the proximal engagement means, and second engagement mean...