ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,365, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Becton Dickinson France (Le Pont de Claix, France).

"System and method for tracking data relating to the processing of medical containers" was invented by Cedric Rivier (Voreppe, France) and Nicolas Euvrard (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for tracking data relating to the processing of a plurality of medical containers adapted to be received in a first layer of a packaging, the system including: at least one mark being implemented on and/or within the material of each medical container and representing a corresponding unique device identifier (UDI) for each respective medi...