US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on Dec. 30 for "Vacuum tube receiver for drawing blood through a peripheral IV catheter" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,926, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Vacuum tube receiver for drawing blood through a peripheral IV catheter" was invented by S. Ray Isaacon (Layton, Utah), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City), Huy Tran (Riverton, Utah), Cristian Clavijo (Lehi, Utah), Joseph Spataro (Cottonwood Heights, Utah), Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah) and Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vacuum tube receiver can include a housing that has a proximal end and a distal end. The housing can include a hollow interior and a proximal opening for receiving a vacuum tube into t...