ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,478, issued on April 21, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Disinfection device with fatigue-based indicator" was invented by Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.), Mohammed Mehtab Khan (Bangalore, India), Prasad Govindaraj (Coimbatore, India), Kaushik Suman (Jharkhand, India) and Aniket Kulkarni (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a disinfecting device, including a housing having a proximal end, a distal end having an opening therein, and a sidewall therebetween defining an interior in fluid communication with the opening, one or more flanges arranged at the distal end of the housin...