ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,518, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Fluid connector system" was invented by Amarsinh Deeliprao Jadhav (Bangalore, India), Sumit Rajpal (Panipat, India), Kaushik Suman (Jharkhand, India), Kanjimpuredathil Muralikrishna Menon (Bangalore, India) and Mohammed Mehtab Khan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Fluid connector systems that can include first and second valve assemblies that are couplable together to form a fluid pathway through the fluid connector system when the first and second valve assemblies are coupled together, and can resist fluid flow through each of the first and sec...