US Patent Issued on June 16 for "Tap block injection device" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,571, issued on June 16.

"Tap block injection device" was invented by Jay Hammerling (Ottawa Hills, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for performing a transversus abdominis plane (TAP) block anesthetic injection during a laparoscopic surgical procedure. The device includes a handle, a needle fixed to the handle, and a sheath covering the needle. The sheath is slidably retractable via a thumb-operated slider on the handle. In a first position for device insertion, the sheath fully covers the tip of the needle, preventing the needle from puncturing any organ or tissue in the patient. In a second position, the sheath is retrac...