US Patent Issued to B. Braun Melsungen on April 15 for "Extended dwell and midline catheters and related methods" (Malaysian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,835, issued on April 15, was assigned to B. Braun Melsungen AG (Melsungen, Germany).

"Extended dwell and midline catheters and related methods" was invented by Teng Lip Khoo (Pulau Pinang, Malaysia) and Lilian Zhi Ling Lew (Penang, Malaysia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Extended dwell catheter assembly allows for one-handed operation by a physician such that the physician may continue to operate a visualization tool with the other hand throughout the catheterization process using the extended dwell catheter assembly. The catheter assembly can have stacked push tags to prevent false activations and to provide a manipulation means in t...