ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,300, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to STERILANCE MEDICAL (SUZHOU) INC. (Suzhou, China).

"Lancing device utilizing tail handle to load and adjust depth" was invented by Guoping Shi (Suzhou, China), Xiangsheng Wang (Suzhou, China) and Jinquan Zhang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lancing device utilizing tail handle to load and adjust depth, includes a shell, an ejection pin, and a tail handle. The tail handle rotates fit with shell in circumferential direction of lancing device and slides fit with shell in axial direction of lancing device; the tail handle has forward sliding limit relative to shell in axial directio...