ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,403,286, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).
"Passive dilation in catheter insertion systems" was invented by Joe Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Daniel B. Blanchard (Bountiful, Utah), Kyle G. Thornley (Farmington, Utah) and Austin J. Mckinnon (Herriman, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein is a catheter, which in some embodiments includes a distal section configured to enter a skin insertion site. The distal section can include a tapered junction having one or more dilation structures configured to dilate the skin insertion site. The distal section can further include a dista...