US Patent Issued to Baxter International, Baxter Healthcare on June 3 for "Perforating connector for medical fluid containers" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,318,567, issued on June 3, was assigned to Baxter International Inc. (Deerfield, Ill.) and Baxter Healthcare SA (Glatttpark, Switzerland).

"Perforating connector for medical fluid containers" was invented by Rajesh Nandipati (Karnataka, India) and Vandana Sakhare (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A perforating connector assembly including a valve; and a perforating connector comprising a perforator accepted by the valve, the perforator including a spiked end and a lever, the lever including a projection, a shell extending around the perforator and the valve, the shell including a pre-activation opening and a post-activation...