ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,415, issued on March 25, was assigned to Becton Dickinson France (Le Pont-de-Claix, France).
"Nest for the packaging of plunger stoppers with integrated stacking features ensuring a reliable alignment of a pile of nests" was invented by Gildas Esnault (Grenoble, France), Laurent Jacquier (Saint Cassien, France), Ferdinand Lavigne (Seyssinet-Pariset, France), Clementine Le Loc'h (Meylan, France), Thomas Magguili (Vizille, France) and Cedric Rivier (Voreppe, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A nest for the storage of medical device components, including a top surface, a bottom surface, and a plurality of receptacles for the storag...