US Patent Issued on July 14 for "Protective cap assembly for a needle" (Alabama Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,668, issued on July 14.

"Protective cap assembly for a needle" was invented by Daniel Allen Egnor Jr. (Harvest, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle protection assembly with a cap that connects directly to a needle, thereby protecting the stem from bending. The needle protection assembly further provides a base ring for circumscribing a base portion of the needle and a bushing that interconnects the cap and the base ring, wherein there is no fixed connection between the cap and the bushing nor between the bushing and the base ring so that the bushing can rack relative to the base ring when a deflection force is imparted on th...