US Patent Issued to Becton Dickinson and Co. on July 15 for "Fluid storage unit, systems, and methods for catheter priming" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,795, issued on July 15, was assigned to Becton Dickinson and Co. (Franklin Lakes, N.J.).

"Fluid storage unit, systems, and methods for catheter priming" was invented by Mum Pew Ng (Singapore) and Jithendra Kumar Sathyanarayana Naidu (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter system may include a catheter assembly, a fluid storage unit, and fluid. The catheter assembly may include a catheter hub, a catheter, an extension tube, and an adapter. The catheter hub may include a distal end, a proximal end, a lumen extending between the distal end and the proximal end, and a side port. The catheter may extend distally from the dist...