US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 13 for "Event capture device for medication delivery instruments" (North Carolina, Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,151, issued on May 13, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Event capture device for medication delivery instruments" was invented by Andrew Richards (Durham, N.C.), Sean Ulrich (Raleigh, N.C.), Mircea Stefan Despa (Cary, N.C.) and Sundeep Kankanala (Bloomington, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a dose monitoring device configured to couple with one or more medication delivery instruments to capture, record and/or process dosing events or events of delivering a medication dose. The dose monitoring device may include electronics such as a sensor, a clock module and a temperature modu...