US Patent Issued to KURIN on July 28 for "Needle assembly with extending safety shield" (Utah, California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,691,230, issued on July 28, was assigned to KURIN INC. (San Diego).

"Needle assembly with extending safety shield" was invented by Bobby E. Rogers (Park City, Utah), Kevin Nason (Phoenix) and David Karl Stroup (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety needle assembly includes a housing defining a cavity and having a button, a hub positioned in the cavity, and a needle connected with a distal face of the hub to extend out of the housing. The assembly includes a shield positioned in the cavity having a retracted mode in which the shield is retracted into the housing to expose the needle, and a securement mode in which the shield i...