ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,345, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Skin disinfectant wipe" was invented by Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.), Kevin M. Ryan (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Rahul Malviya (Salmon Arm, Canada), Shashwat Jain (Indore, India), Vineeth Acharya (Udupi, India) and Ravi Kaushik (Delhi, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin preparation device for applying an antiseptic composition to skin of a patient that includes an applicator configured to absorb the antiseptic composition, the applicator comprising a top surface and a bottom surface, the bottom surface configured to apply the antisept...