US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 26 for "Disinfecting cap for male and female connectors including deformable housing" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,484, issued on May 26, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Disinfecting cap for male and female connectors including deformable housing" was invented by Divik Bhargava (Meerut, India), Shreyasi Dutta (Bangalore, India), Reddy Jairam Satwik (Visakhapatnam, India) and Atharva Shetye (Kolhapur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cap configured to engage a first connector and a second connector of different types includes a housing having a first end, an open second end, a sidewall extending therebetween, and a radially extending flange extending outward from the sidewall or open second end. The cap also ...