US Patent Issued to Covalon Technologies on May 13 for "Guard for adaptor in an intravenous line" (Washington, Idaho Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,144, issued on May 13, was assigned to Covalon Technologies Ltd. (Tukwila, Wash.).

"Guard for adaptor in an intravenous line" was invented by Sharon Tomlinson (Post Falls, Idaho), Mark Ford (Spokane, Wash.), Karl Frosh (Everett, Wash.) and Gerry Arambula (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a guard for an intravenous adaptor. The guard comprises a polymer sheet formed of a polymer film, the polymer sheet having left, right and middle portions; tear lines within the polymer sheet, located on either side of the central extent of the middle portion; a pull strip extending lengthwise, generally parallel to the centra...