US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on April 21 for "Disinfecting assembly for a prefilled syringe and syringe including such an assembly" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,533, issued on April 21, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Disinfecting assembly for a prefilled syringe and syringe including such an assembly" was invented by Praveen Nalawade (Belagavi, India), Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.) and Manish Kumar (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disinfecting assembly for a prefilled flushing syringe. The disinfecting assembly includes a scrubbing cap and a disinfecting cap. The scrubbing cap includes a chamber adapted to receive a needle-free connector of an intravenous (IV) catheter. A scrubber and a disinfectant are contained within the chamber of the...