ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,500, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to TAISEI KAKO Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan) and CHUGAI SEIYAKU K.K. (Tokyo).

"Syringe" was invented by Yuji Yamanaka (Tokyo), Kiichi Egami (Tokyo), Ayano Horikawa (Tokyo), TaijI Horita (Osaka, Japan), Yukihiro Ogawa (Osaka, Japan), Kensuke Taniguchi (Osaka, Japan) and Junki Miyagawa (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a syringe including: a barrel; and a partitioning device, the partitioning device including: a cylindrical housing; and an inner plug, the housing including an engaging part configured to engage with the inner plug in an out-of-communication state, the inner plug incl...