ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,490, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).
"Anti-thrombogenic catheter assembly and related methods" was invented by Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City), Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah), He Bai (Sandy, Utah), Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Hua Zhang (South Jordan, Utah), Weston F. Harding (Lehi, Utah) and Curtis H. Blanchard (Riverton, Utah).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter assembly may include a catheter adapter, which may include a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending through the distal end of the catheter adapter and the proximal end of the catheter adapter. The cat...