2021 MAY 05 (NewsRx) - By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Disease Prevention Daily - From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journalists report that a patent application by the inventors Sabo, Sharon (St. Louis, Mo); Sabo, Cianan (St. Louis, Mo), filed on October 12, 2020, was made available online on April 15, 2021. The patent's assignee is Tricentum Technologies LLC (St. Louis, Missouri, United States). News editors obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: "Every year 13 million people in the United States engage in self-management of a medical condition involving self-injection of a medication. There are a significant number of these patients which also suffer a condition resulting in reduced dexterity or handgrip strength, have tremors, have fear of inadvertent injury, and/or have diminished ability to learn proper technique for insulin injection. Many patients who self-inject use disposable hypodermic needles with proactive sheaths. In this patient population, unsheathing and resheathing the needle can cause an increased risk of needle stick injuries (NSIs) and/or contamination of the tip.
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