ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,223, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TELEFLEX LIFE SCIENCES II LLC (Wilmington, Del.).

"Hand crank manually driven intraosseous injection devices and methods" was invented by Morgan Tierney (Ferbane, Ireland), Aleksejus Fominas (Athlone, Ireland), Eugene Skelton (Cabinteely, Ireland) and Anthony Wright (Dungarvan, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Manually driven intraosseous devices and associated methods are described. The intraosseous device includes a housing and a transmission at least partially disposed within the housing. The transmission includes a first portion and a second portion. The second portion includes a manu...