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Fragments of the drawings in the Patent US1742497 applied in 1925 for the Luer-Lok system
Why Becton & Dickinson called its system Luer-Lok?

Becton & Dickinson invented the world-known standard for connecting needles to syringes and registered it under the trademark name 'Luer-Lok'. Why did the American company name their innovation after the French company Maison Lüer? Here is the story behind one of the most practical inventions in the field of medicine.