US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Oct. 7 for "Pierceable cap" (New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,246, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Pierceable cap" was invented by Ammon David Lentz (York, Pa.), Kevin Bailey (Monkton, Md.), Dustin Diemert (Baltimore), Joel Daniel Krayer (New Milford, N.J.) and Laurence Michael Vaughan (Cockeysville, Md.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for penetrating a pierceable cap (11) on a vessel (21). The pierceable cap (11) prevents escape of sample specimens from the vessel (21) before transfer with a transfer device (43). The pierceable cap (11) may fit over a vessel (21). An access port in the shell of the pierceable cap (11) may allow passage...