US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 20 for "Self-aligning, universal cap for male and female Luer connectors" (New Jersey Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,303, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Self-aligning, universal cap for male and female Luer connectors" was invented by Kevin M. Ryan (Whitehouse Station, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A universal cap for connection to medical connectors facilitates easier cap alignment and engagement with threaded male or female Luer medical connectors and enhanced connector disinfection. A split-collar protrusion projects axially from a closed end wall of the cap towards the open bottom and comprises at least an opposed pair of parallel, sector-shaped, collet fingers/prongs that terminate in...