US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 13 for "Injection molded cannula and method for making same" (New York, Nebraska, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,109, issued on May 13, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Injection molded cannula and method for making same" was invented by Jeff Reed (Minden, Neb.), Andrew Allegretti (New York) and Jean-Pierre Karam (Lake Forest, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including the operations of molding a hollow cannula to create flash on the cannula at parting lines of a mold, retaining the flash on the cannula, and installing the cannula with the flash in a medical device."

The patent was filed on Dec. 6, 2019, under Application No. 17/299,860.

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