US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Feb. 10 for "Fluid sample collection container with cap and removal tool for finger grip luer adapter" (New Jersey, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,045, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Fluid sample collection container with cap and removal tool for finger grip luer adapter" was invented by Michael Baker (Oradell, N.J.), Daniel Feltyberger (Sparta, N.J.), Elizabeth Stayduhar (Charlestown, Mass.) and David Colie Wight (West Orange, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A container assembly including a collection container and a container lid couplable to the collection container. An elongate receptacle extends from the container lid into the collection container when the container lid is coupled to the collection container. The el...