ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,653,996, issued on June 16, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Connector coupling assembly" was invented by Amarsinh Deeliprao Jadhav (Bangalore, India), Anand Viswanathan (Chennai, India), Kanjimpuredathil Muralikrishna Menon (Bangalore, India), Rahul Malviya (Salmon Arm, Canada), Jason Andrew Wine (Brea, Calif.), Sumit Rajpal (Panipat, India), Abin Austin (Thrissur, India) and Kaushik Suman (Chaibasa, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A coupler including a first connector having a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a first valve disposed between the first end and the second end. The first valve having...