US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Sept. 29 for "Device for skin disinfection and adhesive deactivation" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,298, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Device for skin disinfection and adhesive deactivation" was invented by Linjie Zhu (Livingston, N.J.), Kevin M. Ryan (Whitehouse Station, N.J.), Shishir Prasad (Ramsey, N.J.) and Angela Marie Huenerfauth (Morris Plains, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device including a housing, a disinfecting light source coupled to the housing, where the disinfecting light source is configured to disinfect an object, an adhesive light source coupled to the housing, where the adhesive light source is configured to cause a light switchable adhesive to tr...