US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 17 for "Dual chamber syringe assembly with floating stopper" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,622, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Dual chamber syringe assembly with floating stopper" was invented by Divik Bhargava (Meerut, India), Shreyasi Dutta (Bangalore, India) and Reddy Jairam Satwik (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual chamber syringe facilitates selective drug mixing, dosing, and administration, as well as pre- or post-administration flushing with a single syringe instrument. A syringe barrel incorporates an outlet, as well as variable-volume, primary and secondary fluid chambers, separated by a floating stopper. The floating stopper defines a ...