ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,434,282, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).
"Pharmaceutical waste system" was invented by David A. Maness (Mt. Pleasant, S.C.) and Brian J. VanDerWoude (Portage, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of disposing of a residual pharmaceutical composition from an IV bag includes coupling the IV bag to a pharmaceutical dispenser coupler. The method also includes extracting at least a portion of the residual pharmaceutical composition from the IV bag through the pharmaceutical dispenser coupler. The method further includes treating at least a portion of the extracted pharmaceutical composition in one of ...