US Patent Issued to Lantheus Medical Imaging on Dec. 16 for "Pierceable plug for needle" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,008, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Lantheus Medical Imaging Inc. (Bedford, Mass.).

"Pierceable plug for needle" was invented by Joseph Haepers (Acton, Mass.), Jack N. Wentz Jr. (Nashua, N.H.), Virginia Ann Hankard (Dunstable, Mass.), Khursida Shahidullah (Lexington, Mass.), Tricia D. Butland (Stoneham, Mass.), Patricia A. Corosa (Nashua, N.H.), David P. Rice (Derry, N.H.) and Samantha Moran (Lowell, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pierceable plug for closing off a piercing end of a needle is described herein. The plug has an end that is configured to be pierced by the needle to close off the piercing end of the needle. Th...