US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on June 16 for "Single-hand removable tip cap for prefilled syringe" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,959, issued on June 16, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Single-hand removable tip cap for prefilled syringe" was invented by Manish Kumar (Bengaluru, India), Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.), Praveen Nalawade (Belagavi, India) and Karthik MR (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A syringe includes a barrel having a proximal end, a distal end having a distal tip defining a channel, and a sidewall extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The syringe also includes a tip cap removably connected to the distal tip of the barrel restricting fluid flow from the channel. The tip cap incl...