US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on April 15 for "Self-controllable load spring washer" (New Jersey Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,862, issued on April 15, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Self-controllable load spring washer" was invented by Nestor Rodriguez San Juan (Hamburg, N.J.), Evan Leibowitz (Linden, N.J.) and Kayla Kaspar (Parsippany, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a load spring washer configured for use with a medical injection device, having a main body having a proximal surface and a distal surface and one or more protrusions extending proximally away from the proximal surface of the main body."

The patent was filed on July 7, 2020, under Application No. 16/922,137.

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