US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on May 27 for "Antimicrobial inserts for medical devices" (Utah, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,081, issued on May 27, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Antimicrobial inserts for medical devices" was invented by Bryan Fred Bihlmaier (Provo, Utah), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Janice Lin (San Jose, Calif.), Huibin Liu (Cupertino, Calif.), Siddarth K. Shevgoor (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah) and Ming Zhou (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Inserts can be formed with elution characteristics to cause the inserts to elute an antimicrobial agent when subject to a fluid within a medical device. An insert can be formed with a desired...