US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Aug. 11 for "System, method, and device for medical waste tracking" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,205, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"System, method, and device for medical waste tracking" was invented by Matthew Oshinski (Oak Ridge, N.J.) and Ashley Rachel Rothenberg (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical waste tracking device may include a housing including an opening configured to receive a medical device and a package for the medical device and/or a sensor configured to determine first identifying information from the package for the medical device and second identifying information from the medical device. One or more processors may be programmed an...