ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,648, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to RAMBAM MEDTECH LTD. (Haifa, Israel).
"Closed system for sterile drug preparation and administration" was invented by Salim Hadad (Haifa, Israel) and Zvi Lefel (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sterile closed system (20, 120) is provided that includes an airtight enclosure (40), an infusion-bag receptacle (44), medication-preparation tubing (48), one or more medication-preparation-tubing valves (50, 250), and an infusion-bag seal (46), which is configured to make an airtight seal with respective external surfaces of a medication port (36) and an IV tubing port (34) of an infusion b...