US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 1 for "Extension set and related systems and methods" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,145, issued on July 1, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Extension set and related systems and methods" was invented by Jonathan Karl Burkholz (Salt Lake City), Megan Scherich (Salt Lake City) and Yiping Ma (Layton, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extension set may include a tube having an outer surface. An instrument, such as a tubing or a probe, may be disposed within the tube and may include a proximal end and a distal end. A translation handle may be coupled to the outer surface of the tube and may move along the outer surface between a proximal position and a distal position to translate the...