US Patent Issued to Bard Peripheral Vascular on Oct. 7 for "Sealant injection needle assembly and sealant delivery apparatus for use in a lung access procedure" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,578, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Bard Peripheral Vascular Inc. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Sealant injection needle assembly and sealant delivery apparatus for use in a lung access procedure" was invented by Jordan P. Addison (Gilbert, Ariz.), Heather A. Storm (Phoenix) and Chad Van Liere (Phoenix).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealant injection needle assembly includes a cannula assembly and a stylet assembly. The cannula assembly has a cannula hub and a cannula having a first longitudinal sealant passage and a second longitudinal sealant passage. The first longitudinal sealant passage has a first proximal sealant port and a fir...