ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,095, issued on April 21, was assigned to The Monarch Co. LLC (Birmingham, Ala.).
"Blood collection assembly" was invented by James Price (Birmingham, Ala.), Jonathan Trawick (Birmingham, Ala.) and Clint Semmann (Waseca, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is a blood collection assembly that has a needle assembly fixedly coupled to a finger-activated actuator and tubing and the needle assembly has a needle. Further, the blood collection assembly has a hub that houses the needle assembly and the hub has a channel in a top surface of the hub. Additionally, the channel slidably engages the finger-activated actuat...