US Patent Issued to CAREFUSION 303 on Sept. 29 for "Needleless connector having check valve with concave flow surface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,383, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Needleless connector having check valve with concave flow surface" was invented by Raymond P. Feith (Chino Hills, Calif.), Randy Kipp (Upland, Calif.) and Adel Shams (Fullerton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A needleless connector may include a housing having an inlet port, an outlet port, and an inner surface defining an internal cavity extending between the inlet and outlet ports, and a compressible valve reciprocally disposed within the internal cavity. In a closed state, a top section of a head portion of the compressible valve may have a planar s...