US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Dec. 2 for "System for reduced buckling of a probe during deployment of a blood draw device" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,484,821, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"System for reduced buckling of a probe during deployment of a blood draw device" was invented by Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah), Curtis H. Blanchard (Herriman, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Megan S. Scherich (Salt Lake City) and Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid transfer device including a catheter, an introducer adapted to attach the device to a peripheral intravenous line (PIV), an actuator movably coupled to the introducer, and a catheter support movably coupled to the introducer. The catheter supp...