ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,963, issued on June 16, was assigned to Dali Medical Devices LTD. (Yavne, Israel).

"Safety needles and methods of use thereof" was invented by David Daily (Herzliya, Israel), Lior Raday (Kibbutz Bror-Hail, Israel), Hagay Drori (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Gad Lewkonya (Neve Mivtach, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needle protection assembly, adapted to protect a tip of a hypodermic needle, comprising a shield adapted, in a protected operative orientation of the needle protection assembly, to shield the tip of the hypodermic needle, a locking element including at least one slot, the slot including at least three surfaces correspondi...