US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 20 for "Device for disinfecting and flushing an intravenous connector" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,302, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Device for disinfecting and flushing an intravenous connector" was invented by Praveen Nalawade (Belgaum, India), Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.) and Joyce L. Young-Stewart (Sparks, Nev.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A disinfection and flushing device for an intravenous patient connector requires only a single coupling of a disinfection cap of the device to the patient connector, both to scrub the patient connector and to administer flushing solution through the connector via a flush syringe that is already coupled to a housing portion of the dev...