US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Nov. 18 for "Needle tip blunting using a length of a guidewire" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,331, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Needle tip blunting using a length of a guidewire" was invented by Austin J. Mckinnon (Herriman, Utah) and Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Guidewires include a distal section, a proximal section and a middle section disposed between the distal section and the proximal section, wherein the middle section has a flexural stiffness that is greater than a flexural stiffness of both of the distal section and the proximal section. The distal section is configured for insertion into a vasculature of a patient. A diameter of the mi...