Patents Assigned to Becton
  • Blue-excitable water-solvated polymeric dyes
    Patent number: 11912876
    Abstract: Water solvated polymeric dyes and polymeric tandem dyes having a blue excitation spectrum are provided. The polymeric dyes are conjugated polymers that can include a thiophene-containing co-monomer. The polymeric tandem dyes further include a signaling chromophore covalently linked to the conjugated polymer in energy-receiving proximity therewith. Also provided are labelled specific binding members that include the subject polymeric dyes. Methods of evaluating a sample for the presence of a target analyte and methods of labelling a target molecule in which the subject polymeric dyes find use are also provided. Systems and kits for practicing the subject methods are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Yongchao Liang, Haiqing Li, Brent S. Gaylord
  • Gripper and transport system for a picking device
    Patent number: 11912511
    Abstract: A gripper for a transport system of a picking device having horizontal storage surfaces for storing and dispensing small piece goods of different shapes and/or surface properties is provided. The gripper comprises a drop table extending in first and a second horizontal directions and having a storage and dispensing end face. Two elongated gripping jaws are arranged above the drop table extending in the first horizontal direction, and are fastened to a gripping jaw guide arrangement. At least one of the gripping jaws is movable in the second horizontal direction and at least one of the gripping jaws has a gripper coupler in its end portion facing away from the gripping jaw guide arrangement, and at least one transport attachment with an attachment coupler. The gripper and attachment couplers interact so that a transport attachment is releasably fixed at an end portion of a gripping jaw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BECTON DICKINSON ROWA GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Dietmar Gross, Stephan Brokonier, Heinrich Paul Martini
  • System and method for consulting on culture plate readings
    Patent number: 11915835
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for selecting colony locations. Selecting colony locations can include determine a location of a selection tool on a culture plate image, determining a location of a potential source of error on the culture plate image, comparing the location of the selection tool to the location of the potential source of error; and determining an error when the location of the selection tool overlays the location of the potential source of error.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: BECTON, DICKINSON AND COMPANY
    Inventors: Strett Roger Nicolson, Rajeev Sehgal
  • Injection device for injecting a composition contained in a medical container
    Patent number: 11911600
    Abstract: An injection device for injecting a composition contained in a medical container comprising: a body configured to receive the medical container in a fixed position relative to the body, spring-loaded piston rod translationally movable inside the body along a spring axis, between a proximal rest position and a distal operative position wherein the spring-loaded piston rod engages a stopper of the medical container, and a selective blocking mechanism comprising a braking member selectively tiltable relative to the piston rod between a blocking position wherein the braking member impinges on the piston rod so as to prevent any translational movement of the spring-loaded piston rod in a distal direction by a bracing effect and a releasing position wherein the braking member disengages from the piston rod so as to allow the piston rod to move towards the distal operative position under the spring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson France
    Inventor: Franck Carrel
  • ROTATIONAL METERING PUMP FOR MEDICATION PATCH
    Publication number: 20240058528
    Abstract: A rotary pump for a fluid metering system is provided. The rotary pump reciprocates, and is reversed by a signal from a limit switch that is deflected by an actuator arm on a rotating sleeve of the pump system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alessandro E. Pizzochero, J. Richard Gyory, Kenneth Focht, Justin Fisk, Joseph Gordon, Matthew Perry, Ajit D’Souza, Christopher Petroff
  • OVAL PLUNGER PISTON WITHO-RING PRESSURE EQUALIZING CHANNELS FOR IMPROVED LEAK PERFORMANCE
    Publication number: 20240058542
    Abstract: Disclosed is a plunger piston for use in a syringe and especially in a micro-dosing syringe pump application. The plunger piston comprises a front face opposite a rear face and at least one annular groove positioned between the front face and the rear face. The plunger piston includes a plurality of channels extending from the front face into the groove, the channels providing communication between the front face and the groove. An O-ring is received in the groove and the channels serve to equalize pressures around a first side of the O-ring to improve sealing performance and micro-dosing accuracy of a syringe or a micro-dosing syringe pump utilizing the plunger piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Nicholas P. ANDERSON, Nitish Kumar Varma KUNAPARAJU
  • DISCRETE DOSE CONTROL AND OVERDOSE PREVENTION MECHANISM
    Publication number: 20240058546
    Abstract: A dose control and overrun protection mechanism is provided for use in fluid delivery devices such as wearable infusion pumps and medication delivery pens. The mechanism comprises oppositely rotating spur gears with surface features that guide a pin on a plate rotating along a desired arc path (e.g., less than 180 degrees) in alternating directions per delivery cycle of a predetermined dose amount. The surface features are configured to controllably rotate one of the spur gears and output a selected amount or rotation to another component in the power train of a fluid delivery device regardless of direction of actuator input and regardless of whether the actuator rotates beyond the arc path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventor: Soroush KAMRAVA
  • Catheter assembly having an injection port and related methods
    Patent number: 11904116
    Abstract: A catheter assembly may include a catheter adapter. A body of the catheter adapter may include a distal end, a proximal end, and a first lumen extending through the distal end and the proximal end. The catheter adapter may include a side port, which may extend outwardly from the body. The side port may include a second lumen, which may be perpendicular to the first lumen. The catheter assembly may include a catheter extending distally from the distal end of the body. The catheter assembly may include a valve disposed within the first lumen. The valve may include an outer surface that is cylindrical and may seal the first lumen from the second lumen. The catheter assembly may include a divider disposed with the second lumen. The divider may divide the second lumen into a plurality of openings and may increase a burst value of the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventor: Kiat Jin Cheng
  • Hypodermic safety needle
    Patent number: 11904150
    Abstract: A safety needle device for connection to a medical connector, including threaded connections. The safety needle comprises a collar configured to interdigitate with a conventional needle hub, the collar having attachment points for a hinged cap, the hinged cap being in a two-piece configuration. In further embodiments, the safety needle device comprises a removable hard needle cover configured to cover needle cannula and a distal portion of a needle hub. The hard needle enclosure further comprises a cap configured to interdigitate with the needle cover and cover a proximal portion of the needle hub. The cap and at least a portion of the needle cover are covered by a removable sleeve which holds the cap and the needle cover together. Even further embodiments comprise a needle hub, a needle cover, an adapter and a cap, the adapter configured to attach to a conventional needle cap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Amit Uday Limaye, David Poganski
  • Cannula deployment mechanism
    Patent number: 11904135
    Abstract: A cannula insertion device is disclosed. The device includes a needle carriage, a rail device on which the needle carriage is slidable, a yoke having a channel, a linkage connected to the needle carriage and extending into the channel, a torsion spring with one end connected to the linkage, and locking device for locking the torsion spring in tension and maintaining the needle carriage and the linkage in a locked position prior to activation. Upon release of the locking device, the tension of the torsion spring is released, which causes the linkage to move in the channel and slide the needle carriage along the rail device. A catheter carriage may also be provided for actuation by the linkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Russell Cole, Alyssa Jackson
  • Extension tubing strain relief
    Patent number: 11904114
    Abstract: An integrated vascular access device can include strain relief features to minimize the likelihood of the extension tubing becoming kinked during use. These strain relief features can be configured at both ends of the extension tubing to minimize the likelihood of kinking at the interfaces to the catheter adapter and luer adapter. To provide strain relief at the catheter adapter end of the extension tubing, an interface formed of a flexible material can be aligned with an extension of the catheter adapter into which the extension tubing inserts. The interface can be integrated into a stabilization platform or formed separately from a stabilization platform. To provide strain relief at the luer adapter end of the extension tubing, a flexible spacer can be coupled to a distal end of the adapter and have a distal portion that is positioned around the extension tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Bart D. Peterson, Jonathan Karl Burkholz, Bryan Fred Bihlmaier
  • Actuator assembly for drug delivery system
    Patent number: 11904148
    Abstract: A needle actuator assembly for a drug delivery system includes a housing, a needle having retracted and extended positions, a needle actuator body received within the housing and configured to move from a pre-use position where the needle is in the retracted position to a use position where the needle is in the extended position and to a post-use position where the needle is in the retracted position, with the needle actuator having a button contact surface, and an actuator button received by the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Oliver Charles Gazeley, Gareth James Lewis, David Aubrey Plumptre, Malcolm Stanley Boyd
  • Self-contained spring inserter for drug delivery infusion set
    Patent number: 11904136
    Abstract: An infusion set includes a base (221) and a flexible catheter (242) movable from a first catheter position disposed substantially entirely within the base (221) to a second catheter position in which a free end of the catheter (242) is disposed externally of the base (221). An introducer needle (234) is located within the catheter (242) and is movable between a first introducer needle position disposed substantially entirely within the base (221) and a second introducer needle position in which a free end of the introducer needle (234) is disposed externally of the bases (221). A spring (281) is activated to move the catheter (242) from the first to the second catheter position and the introducer needle (234) from the first to the second introducer needle position to facilitate insertion of the catheter (242).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Cole Constantineau, Ryan Schoonmaker, Azadeh Khanicheh, Michel Bruehwiler, Judy Walish
  • Method for providing a singling device of a storage and dispensing container
    Patent number: 11903906
    Abstract: A method for providing a singling device of a storage and dispensing container for drug portions is provided. A singling device is adapted to a specific drug portion based on the measurement of the drug portion. The measurement is obtained by generating at least one image of a to-be-measured drug portion by a detection device and using image analysis to process the at least one image. Drug information for the specific drug portion is determined, the drug information including at least the dimensions of the specific drug portion. Based on the determined drug information, a singling device fitting the drug portion to be singularized is identified and provided for use in the storage and dispensing container. A system for identifying a singling device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: BECTON DICKINSON ROWA GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Hellenbrand
  • System for closed transfer of fluids
    Patent number: 11903901
    Abstract: A syringe adapter includes a housing having a first end and a second end with the first end configured to be secured to a first container, a cannula having a first end and a second end with the second end positioned within the housing, and a collet having a first end and a second end with at least a portion of the collet received within the housing. The collet includes a body defining a passageway, a seal member received by the passageway, and an arcuate, resilient locking member connected to the body of the collet. The collet is movable from a first position where the locking member is open to receive a mating connector to a second position where radially outward movement of the locking member is restricted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Becton Dickinson and Company Limited
    Inventors: Laurie Sanders, Matthew Zachek
  • FORCE SENSING RESISTOR FOR LIQUID LOW-VOLUME DETECTION AND OCCLUSION SENSING AND METHODS AND APPARATUSES FOR FLOW SENSING ALONG FLUID PATH IN FLUID DELIVERY DEVICE
    Publication number: 20240050655
    Abstract: A system and method is provided for detecting fluid low-volume and occlusion in a device using force sensing resistor (FSR) sensor. One or more force sensing resistors are positioned in communication with a fluid channel at one or more of a pump intake and pump outlet to detect pressure in the fluid channel. The pressure is detected through communication with the force sensing resistor and indicates an irregular system condition including but not limited to, fluid low-volume level and occlusion. Also provided are a fluid flow sensor (e.g., FSR or MEMS sensor) disposed relative to an embedded fluid channel in the base of a wearable medicine delivery pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Alessandro PIZZOCHERO, J. Richard GYORY, Joseph ISKANDAR
  • Invasive Medical Devices Including Magnetic Region And Systems And Methods
    Publication number: 20240049979
    Abstract: Devices, systems, and methods are described including an invasive medical device with a magnetic region. The magnetic region can include a discontinuity in the magnetic region providing a diameter transition, a plurality of spaced magnetic regions can be provided or the magnetic regions can be encoded with data. Systems and methods are described that include ways to read the data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Applicant: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: S. Ray Isaacson, Edward G. Henderson, Siddarth Shevgoor, Jonathan Karl Burkholz
  • Smart vial adapter and method
    Patent number: 11896808
    Abstract: A smart vial adapter is capable of measuring the dose of a drug that is withdrawn from a vial, measuring the time of a dose capture event, monitoring the vial temperature, measuring the amount of motion or perturbation the vial is subjected to, capturing various other parameters that can provide additional insights associated with the drug or the amount of the dose being drawn from the vial, and communicating the recorded information to a companion application on a computer, smartphone or other device. Related methods are also disclosed and claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Tianqi Hang, Uzair Siddiqui
  • Gripper for picking device and method for operating a picking device having this gripper
    Patent number: 11897120
    Abstract: A gripper for a picking device for storing small piece goods and a method for operating a picking device having a gripper are provided. The gripper simplifies dispensing and includes a drop table extending in first and second horizontal directions, and has at least one end portion having a dispensing end face, wherein the drop table and the end portion define an upper support surface. A transport device for moving small piece goods is arranged above the drop table and sensor device(s) are arranged in the at least one end portion having detection regions associated therewith, the sensor device being arranged along a vertical axis in such a way that the detection regions cover a vertically extending space in front of the dispensing end face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: BECTON DICKINSON ROWA GERMANY GMBH
    Inventor: Christoph Hellenbrand
  • Display screen or portion thereof with a graphical user interface for a test platform
    Patent number: D1014549
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Assignee: Becton, Dickinson and Company
    Inventors: Michael T. VanSickler, Natalie Keister