US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 20 for "Dual chamber syringe with manually actuated, chamber isolation valve" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,268, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Dual chamber syringe with manually actuated, chamber isolation valve" was invented by Vivek Konana Thippeswamy (Bengaluru, India), Anandhakannan Rajugovindasamy (Coimbatore, India), Sandip Satishsonar (Dist-Sangli, India) and Tharanath E. (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dual chamber syringe facilitates selective drug mixing, dosing, and administration through catheters or other vascular accessing devices (VADs), as well as pre- or post-administration flushing of catheters with a single syringe instrument. A syringe barrel inco...