US Patent Issued to Quest Medical on Dec. 30 for "Single use safety cap for use with needleless connectors" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,414, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Quest Medical Inc. (Allen, Texas).

"Single use safety cap for use with needleless connectors" was invented by Jeffrey Albertsen (McKinney, Texas), Robert Mart (Colleyville, Texas), Andrew Nelson (Dallas) and Savan Patel (Plano, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A safety cap for use with a needleless connector. The safety cap includes a body configured to at least partially enclose a head of the needleless connector (NC). The body is configured to achieve a first configuration that can be securely sealed to the NC and a second configuration that cannot be securely sealed to the NC. The second...