US Patent Issued to OWEN MUMFORD on July 7 for "Safety syringe" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,166, issued on July 7, was assigned to OWEN MUMFORD Ltd. (Oxfordshire, Great Britain).

"Safety syringe" was invented by Tahir Shabudin (Woodstock, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety syringe comprising a barrel having an opening at an end thereof and a bung positioned in the barrel and creating a volume between the opening and the bung. The safety syringe also comprises a handle portion secured to the barrel and a syringe plunger slidably engaged with the handle portion and moveable within the barrel on an inward stroke to drive the bung forwards within the barrel to cause a substance within the volume to be expelled...