ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,483, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Bayer HealthCare LLC (Whippany, N.J.).
"Syringe rolling apparatus and method" was invented by Michael Spohn (Fenelton, Pa.) and Kevin Cowan (Allison Park, Pa.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A syringe rolling apparatus for initial rolling of a rolling diaphragm syringe from an unrolled state to a rolled state has a pressure jacket configured for receiving an empty, unrolled rolling diaphragm syringe, a piston reciprocally movable within the pressure jacket and configured for contacting an end wall of the syringe rolling diaphragm syringe to initiate a rolling of a flexible sidewall of the rollin...