US Patent Issued to Owen Mumford on Sept. 22 for "Blood sampling device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,733, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Owen Mumford Ltd. (Woodstock, Great Britain).

"Blood sampling device" was invented by Matthew Watts (Woodstock, Great Britain), Prem-Sagar Tank (Woodstock, Great Britain), Oliver Hyde (Woodstock, Great Britain) and Clive Nicholls (Woodstock, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blood sampling device comprising a housing having an aperture in a forward end thereof and defining a passage having a longitudinal axis, a lancet comprising a lancet body supporting a lancet tip at a forward end thereof, said lancet being moveably mounted within said housing, an urging member configured to u...