Patent ID: 8808637

Claim:
A sterilizing device, comprising: an elongated housing comprising a first housing portion having a first opening and a second housing portion having a second opening; a partition separating the first housing portion from the second housing portion; a sterilizing element comprising an impregnated article secured within the first housing portion, the sterilizing element configured to contour and to contact and to sterilize an end-site of a medical device inserted into an end of the first housing portion; a sterile mating connector extending from the second housing portion, the mating connector configured to secure to a luer end of a syringe, the mating connector further having an inner cavity configured to frictionally engage an exterior surface of a slip luer portion of the syringe, the second housing portion having an interior surface configured to cover an exterior surface of the luer end of the syringe while the inner cavity of the mating connector frictionally engages the exterior surface of the slip luer portion.