ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,537, issued on July 15, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).
"Locking cap assembly" was invented by Daniel M. Abal (San Diego), Brendan John Burgess (Poway, Calif.) and Ramkumar Subramanian (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A locking cap assembly includes an upper housing; a lower housing rotatably connected to the upper housing and configured to be fitted onto a container; a near field communication (NFC) module configured to wirelessly receive a NFC input; an inductive charging coil; a microprocessor; and a latching mechanism, the latching mechanism includes a locking latch configured to prevent the upper housin...