ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,850, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Small volume collection container" was invented by Shruti Wigh (Maywood, N.J.), Arun U. Nair (Denville, N.J.), Michael Baker (Oradell, N.J.) and Syed Zulfiqar Abbas Zaidi (Kinnelon, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A specimen collection container assembly including a collection tube having a first open end and a second open end, and an interior reservoir formed within the collection tube. The assembly further includes a cap configured to be couplable to the collection tube to close the first open end, as well as a plug configured to be coup...