ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,019, issued on March 25, was assigned to Atlantic Health System Inc. (Morristown, N.J.).
"Catheter organizer for surgical procedures" was invented by Stephen Leslie Winters (Morris Plains, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter organizer for organizing one or more catheters during a surgical procedure includes a drape and a plurality of clips tethered to the drape in an arrayed pattern. The clips are arranged to receive the one or more catheters such that the catheters move longitudinally and rotate within said each clip. Each clips has movable members for reversibly changing the clip from an open configuration to a closed c...