US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 20 for "Intravascular catheter care pre- and post-flushing" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,243, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Intravascular catheter care pre- and post-flushing" was invented by Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.) and Ajinkya Madhukar Joglekar (Edgewater, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An intravascular catheter care device comprising a flush syringe having an integrated disinfecting unit associated therewith and a method for disinfecting an intravascular catheter, wherein the disinfecting unit includes a first disinfecting pad enclosed between a first and second layer of a flexible peel film. The first layer can be removed from the second layer to expose...