US Patent Issued to Bard Access Systems on Sept. 30 for "Rapidly insertable central catheters, introducers, insertion devices including combinations and methods thereof" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,285, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Bard Access Systems Inc. (Salt Lake City).

"Rapidly insertable central catheters, introducers, insertion devices including combinations and methods thereof" was invented by Daniel B. Blanchard (Bountiful, Utah), Glade H. Howell (Draper, Utah), Joe Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Kyle G. Thornley (Farmington, Utah) and Austin J. Mckinnon (Herriman, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Rapidly insertable central catheters ("RICCs"), introducers, and insertion devices including combinations and methods thereof are disclosed. For example, a RICC system can include an introducer and a RICC inse...