US Patent Issued to Sta-Med on April 15 for "Blood collection safety devices and methods of use and manufacture" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,550, issued on April 15, was assigned to Sta-Med LLC (Highland Park, Ill.).

"Blood collection safety devices and methods of use and manufacture" was invented by David P. Allen (Newport Beach, Calif.), Edward P. Browka (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Jessie Delgado (Durham, N.C.), Matthew R. Penny (Cary, N.C.), David L. Foshee (Apex, N.C.) and Theodore J. Mosler (Raleigh, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatically locking safety device, e.g., for use in a blood collection procedure, can include a housing, first and second needle covers that are at least partly received in the housing, and a needle that is at least partly received in at ...