US Patent Issued to CAREFUSION 303 on Oct. 7 for "Single use disposable elapsed time indicator with absorbable material" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,503, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CAREFUSION 303 INC. (San Diego).

"Single use disposable elapsed time indicator with absorbable material" was invented by Shwetha Mahadev (Bangalore, India), Shraya Sajjanar (Dharwad, India) and Abin Austin (Thrissur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A single use disposable elapsed time indicator and methods for using same include an indicator that can have a flexible chamber for holding an aqueous medium and a slot with a viewing window and a longitudinal axis. The slot is connected to the chamber via a passage having a breakable seal therein. An absorbable material is located within and at a...