Owner Becton, Dickinson and Company

Inventors Lastovich, Alexander G.; Sutter, Diane E.; Powell, Kenneth G.; Pettis, Ronald J.; Haider, Ishaq M.; Fentress, Jim K.; Martin, Frank E.; Lockhart, Artis R.; Griggs, Julia E.

Agent FB Rice

Pub. Number AU-B-2008207350

Parent 2003210854

Filing date 15 August 2008

Wipo publication date 11 September 2008

Acceptance publication date 12 August 2010

A61K 9/70 (2006.01) Medicinal preparations characterised by special physical form - Web, sheet or filament bases

A61B 17/20 (2006.01) Surgery - for vaccinating or cleaning the skin previous to the vaccination

A61M 5/42 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - having means for desensitising skin, for protruding skin to facilitate piercing, or for locating point where body is to be pierced

A61M 31/00 (2006.01) Devices for introducing or retaining media, e.g. remedies, in cavities of the body

A61M 35/00 (2006.01) Devices for applying media, e.g. remedies, on the human body

A61M 37/00 (2006.01) Other apparatus for introducing media into the body

A61M 5/46 (2006.01) Devices for bringing media into the body in a subcutaneous, intra-vascular or intramuscular way - having means for controlling depth of insertion