US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on April 15 for "Rapidly insertable central catheters including assemblies and methods thereof" (Utah Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,274,836, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Rapidly insertable central catheters including assemblies and methods thereof" was invented by Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are rapidly insertable central catheters ("RICCs") including assemblies and methods thereof. In some embodiments, a RICC assembly includes a RICC and an introducer. The RICC includes a soft catheter tube having an introducing aperture that opens into a primary lumen of the RICC. The introducer includes an introducer catheter including a hard catheter tube having an introducing hole that o...