US Patent Issued to TIP-TOP.COM on July 14 for "Safety needle assembly for use with a medical injector" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,570, issued on July 14, was assigned to TIP-TOP.COM LTD (Colchester, Great Britain).

"Safety needle assembly for use with a medical injector" was invented by Barry P. Liversidge (Colchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety needle assembly comprises a blocking member comprising a control member slidably displaceable along a longitudinal axis of a tubular housing from a set position whereat the control member engages a needle mount to maintain a needle in an operative position, thereafter attachment of the safety needle assembly to a medical injector, the use and subsequent detachment of the safety needle assembly...