US Patent Issued to SAFETY LANCET SWEDEN on Oct. 6 for "Activation and retraction mechanism for lancing devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,655, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SAFETY LANCET SWEDEN AB (Gothenburg, Sweden).

"Activation and retraction mechanism for lancing devices" was invented by Bjorn Ahlberg (Stockholm), John Hamberg (Varmdo, Sweden) and Ingvar Sjoqvist (Alvsjo, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is an activation/retraction mechanism for a lancing device that has a pusher that includes a first biasing member arranged to displace the pusher in a distal direction; and a lancet holder that includes a lancet for penetrating the skin of a subject, and a second biasing member arranged to displace the lancet holder in a proximal direction. The la...