US Patent Issued to SHL Medical on Jan. 20 for "Injection device" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,915, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to SHL Medical AG (Zug, Switzerland).

"Injection device" was invented by Donald William Steel (London), Elliot Henry Porter (London) and Adam Jonathan Frederick Stops (Leicester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An injection device has an outer housing that receives a syringe containing medicament, a movable stopper, and a needle. A plunger rod moves the stopper and a needle shield moves relative to the outer housing between a needle covering position and a needle exposing position, where the needle exposing position is axially rearward of the needle covering position. The needle shiel...