ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,111, issued on May 13, was assigned to CONVATEC Ltd. (Flintshire, Great Britain).
"Tamper-evident housing" was invented by Marian Novak (Michalovce, Slovak Republic), Vladimir Curila (Michalovce, Slovak Republic) and David Donnelly (Flintshire, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a housing for a catheter, the housing comprising: a body; a cap assembly comprising a cap and a tamper-evidence ring, wherein the cap is attached to the body and the tamper-evidence ring in an unopened configuration and is configured to be irreversibly detached from the tamper-evidence ring when the cap is removed from the body, the hou...