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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 19, 2005
Applicants:
Clive Nicholls, Aylesbury, GB;
Jeremy Marshall, Oxford, GB;
Inventors:
Clive Nicholls, Aylesbury, GB;
Jeremy Marshall, Oxford, GB;
Assignee:
Owen Mumford Limited, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 17/32 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A skin pricking apparatus including a casing, a lancetlocated within the casing, a firing buttonarranged to transfer a user applied force to the lancetto drive the lancet through the casing, and lancet retaining elementarranged to substantially prevent movement of the lancetthrough the casinguntil the user applied force exceeds a predefined threshold force.