ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,459, issued on June 23, was assigned to Becton Dickinson France (Le Pont-de-Claix, France).

"Adaptor for a medical container, a medical container comprising said adaptor, and a method for manufacturing said adaptor" was invented by Pooja Bhuvanesh Kulkarni (Pune, India), Cedric Rivier (Voreppe, France), Nicolas Euvrard (Durham, N.C.), Rajesh Poola (Chennai, India), Julien Gagliano (Meylan, France) and Frederic Michel (Rives, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The adaptor including a proximal part configured to be secured onto a distal tip of a medical container, a distal part configured to receive said connector in order to establ...