ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,727, issued on April 14, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Syringe with suction-based automatic disabling" was invented by Praveen Nalawade (Belagavi, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a syringe including a syringe barrel having a barrel proximal end and a barrel distal end and defining a chamber configured for containing a fluid therein. The syringe also includes a plunger axially movable within the chamber of the syringe barrel, the plunger having a plunger proximal end and a plunger distal end. The syringe further includes a stopper secured to the plunger distal end, the stopp...