ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,351,741, issued on July 8, was assigned to CareFusion 303 Inc. (San Diego).

"Adhesive for bonding dissimilar materials in medical device" was invented by Fanqing Meng (Buffalo Grove, Ill.), Zehra Sevinc (Long Grove, Ill.), Marc William Weimer (South Jordan, Utah) and James Joseph Semler (Randolph, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Bonding dissimilar materials of medical device components can be carried out by applying an adhesive on at least one surface of two components which are composed of dissimilar materials and contacting the surfaces and exposing the contacted surfaces to heat and/or irradiate the adhesive to cure the adhesive an...